I don’t see Jim actually ever retiring for as long as he keeps getting cast in fun roles. Man seems to genuinely love acting.
My guess is when he signed on for the first Sonic movie he committed to some number of sequels if they ended up being greenlit. Not that I think he hates to be in those movies, but it seems like a professional obligation to not leave them without one of the mainstay actors
To be fair, 2 years a solid break from most things. I could use 2 years off my job
He’s great in it. Can’t blame the man, he gave wonderful performances.
That said, cash speaks.
I’m not a huge fan of the sonic movies. But he is really fun in them.
To be fair, the trailers show him becoming an ally and dealing with his daddy issues. I can’t imagine them doing much more with the character, so this might end up being a sendoff.
In the games, Eggman has become an ally several times, but he always goes back to his plans of world domination. He wants to rule the world, so he’s not going to let anyone destroy it first.
Ah, last Sonic game I played was 3d Blast, so I’m not up on all the drama.
I actually loved Carrey in those movies, his berserk energy was perfectly suited.
Unpopular opinion; he was amazing as the Riddler.
I think people overlook the way his energy has a dark undertone sometimes. There’s something in his high energy performances that throws red flags for me, in a mental health emergency kinda way. But I like that in him.
I have a troubled family, and Jim Carrey reminds me of a particular uncle of mine who has severe bipolar and ADHD, among other things. I think most people find his performances funny because they can’t imagine being in the room with someone who behaves that way.
Script, or check?
Maybe fun? That passage reads to me that he’s at the point of his career where he can pick and choose his work, and will only agree to it if he can goof off doing whatever the fuck he wants.
will only agree to it if he can goof off doing whatever the fuck he wants.
Well that IS how all of his best and worst work came about, after all… With the possible exception of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 🤷
He does seem to be having a blast playing Robotnik in the first two
He’s even said as much:
I throw the spaghetti against the wall, see if it sticks, see if it’s al dente. I know the material, and then, of course I want to try it a bunch of different ways. Give the director so much to work with, so many levels of emotion, so many levels of cartoon. I’ll do them all night if they let me.
To me that is him finding it so fun he just wants to try each part every which way he can and find what works, because he’s truly enjoying trying it out because he wants to try it a bunch of different ways, not because he’s being told to.
Not “I have a specific thought about how this works”, or even “I know what the director needs from me”, but “This is so fun I want to be wild with it and see what I can do!”. Which to me is what makes Carrey awesome as Robotnik.
Tbh, he’s been at that point in his career for a long, long time.
He absolutely has. I think that’s part of why we haven’t seen him in a ton of things in the last 15 or so years. I know he went through a phase where he primarily filled his time with painting, and he had a giant warehouse studio where he’d spend gobs of his time pouring himself into stretched canvass. Maybe this is just his next step…
Still not as fearless as Nicolas Cage.
You have much less inhibition when trying to claw out of enormous debt. Glad that Cage has got his feet back under him.
I always knew Carrey was an Adventure 2 fan.
