In Yes Man, Jim Carrey plays a bank loan executive who can’t say “no,” said A.O. Scott in The New York Times. In Liar Liar, Carrey played a lawyer who loses his ability to lie. See any similarities? But Liar Liar was “a philosophical tour de force compared” to Yes Man, which “takes no risks, finds no inspiration and settles, like its hero, into a dull, noncommittal middle ground.”
Yes Man is “a typical Carrey vehicle,” said Moira Macdonald in The Seattle Times, and “schematically, it's a lot like Liar Liar.” But what sets Yes Man apart from Carrey’s other comedies is that he seems “a bit more relaxed than usual, and gives his co-stars room to make an impression.” And during “this season of movies crammed full with Nazis, depressed suburbanites, dying dogs and murdered politicians, I was grateful for it.”
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