That's why I watched this, expecting some stupid laughs.
Nah.
It just grates, it's potty humour for tweens that struggle with Family Guy or South Park because they're too wordy.
The humour works better with the characters in suits - you can't see their faces and the animations of a question marks, exclamation points etcetera are more comedic. When you've got an actual "actor" attempting to emote something you can see where the budget for this was... I can take a couple of days off work to pretend to be an actor - which is the biggest shame of the film that it's close to being good, but really let down by the human-visual element. Largely the mix of animation and reality is the most impressive element.
Hypothetically if there was a mid-upper tier physical comedian as the main role, this could have been excellent, I'm not a Carrey fan, but that sort of physicality would have worked wonders, especially versus local-theatre/amateur dramatics guy.
I'd probably watch the next film from the director, hopefully there'll be a budget for cast.
Nah.
It just grates, it's potty humour for tweens that struggle with Family Guy or South Park because they're too wordy.
The humour works better with the characters in suits - you can't see their faces and the animations of a question marks, exclamation points etcetera are more comedic. When you've got an actual "actor" attempting to emote something you can see where the budget for this was... I can take a couple of days off work to pretend to be an actor - which is the biggest shame of the film that it's close to being good, but really let down by the human-visual element. Largely the mix of animation and reality is the most impressive element.
Hypothetically if there was a mid-upper tier physical comedian as the main role, this could have been excellent, I'm not a Carrey fan, but that sort of physicality would have worked wonders, especially versus local-theatre/amateur dramatics guy.
I'd probably watch the next film from the director, hopefully there'll be a budget for cast.