Carl (Jim Carrey) needs a gimmick to get a life. After five years and zero promotions, he’s going nowhere as junior loan officer. Three years after breaking up with his girlfriend, he’s an asocial naysayer. Then he attends a cultish self-help lecture, much like an EST meeting from the 1970s. “Yes is the New No” is the mantra of the movement led by Terrence Bundley (Terence Stamp). Carl starts saying “yes” to all sorts of things. That makes life a bit more interesting, besides freeing screenwriters to invent plenty of near random bits. Nicholas Stoller (director of “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”), Jarrad Paul (who played Zit Boy in “Liar Liar”) and Andrew Mogel base this OK comedy on the book by Danny Wallace. Zooey Deschanel supplies the love interest as a scooter-riding singer in a band called Munchausen By Proxy. Peyton Reed– whose “Down with Love” surpassed his “Bring It On” and “The Break-Up”– fails to optimize her inborn quirk. In “Liar Liar” (1997) Carrey played a lying lawyer who was forced to tell the truth, pursuant to a wish made his little boy when he blew out the candles of his birthday cake. Here Carl’s new “yes” strategy leads him to log on to PersianWifeFinder.com, approve 561 micro-loans and take lessons in speaking Korean, flying planes and playing guitar. The only downside to all this reckless yesness is that his life starts to interest Homeland Security. With Bradley Cooper, John Michael Higgins, Rhys Darby, Danny Masterson, Fionnula Flanagan. 104m. (Bill Stamets)
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Carl (Jim Carrey) needs a gimmick to get a life. After five years and zero promotions, he’s going nowhere as junior loan officer. Three years after breaking up with his girlfriend, he’s an asocial naysayer. Then he attends a cultish self-help lecture, much like an EST meeting from the 1970s. “Yes is the New No” is the mantra of the movement led by Terrence Bundley (Terence Stamp). Carl starts saying “yes” to all sorts of things. That makes life a bit more interesting, besides freeing screenwriters to invent plenty of near random bits. Nicholas Stoller (director of “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”), Jarrad Paul (who played Zit Boy in “Liar Liar”) and Andrew Mogel base this OK comedy on the book by Danny Wallace. Zooey Deschanel supplies the love interest as a scooter-riding singer in a band called Munchausen By Proxy. Peyton Reed– whose “Down with Love” surpassed his “Bring It On” and “The Break-Up”– fails to optimize her inborn quirk. In “Liar Liar” (1997) Carrey played a lying lawyer who was forced to tell the truth, pursuant to a wish made his little boy when he blew out the candles of his birthday cake. Here Carl’s new “yes” strategy leads him to log on to PersianWifeFinder.com, approve 561 micro-loans and take lessons in speaking Korean, flying planes and playing guitar. The only downside to all this reckless yesness is that his life starts to interest Homeland Security. With Bradley Cooper, John Michael Higgins, Rhys Darby, Danny Masterson, Fionnula Flanagan. 104m. (Bill Stamets)
