I seem to remember liking him a long, long time ago (circa In Living Color, maybe?) in a TV movie called Doing Time on Maple Drive, in which he played an alcoholic.

I loved everything else about Unfortunate Events so much -- as Hec said, the gorgeous ratty gothiness of Olaf's house, the costumes, the kids, the music, the lighting -- that I've trained myself to avert my eyes when he's on screen. I can take him a little easier as the research assistant and as the fisherman than I can as Olaf, for whatever reason. There was a *little* less Jim Carrey there, and a little more Count Olaf coveracting. Or at least that's what I like to tell myself.

He was fine playing against type in Eternal Sunshine. But that's the only movie I've actually liked him in.

Ditto. I mean, small doses of his physical comedy, like, sketch-length doses, and then he can go back into the toybox he comes outta.

I saw Enduring Love this weekend, along with Laurel Canyon, and I feel as if I ought to feel all grown up and like them both, but I only liked one of them. Still, overall it was quite the weekend of superhero-to-be floundering in befuddlement. (Plus, bonus floundering by Toshiro Mifune in Throne of Blood !)

Doing Time on Maple Drive, in which he played an alcoholic.

I never can remember if that was him or Robert Sean Leonard. They could have been brothers, they resembled each other at the ages they were then. I remember loving whichever of them it was, though.

It was Carrey -- I checked, even!

You're right, though -- I never thought about how much he and RSL looked alike there for a while.

I saw Enduring Love this weekend, along with Laurel Canyon

Laurel Canyon really kind of bored me, but I watched it late one night in a bad mood.

I liked Carrey in The Cable Guy. Finally a role even slightly as creepy as I found his public persona.

Finally a role even slightly as creepy as I found his public persona.

Heh.

I didn't hate The Truman Show, and I enjoyed most of Bruce Almighty, but I will never willingly watch the abomination he and Ron Howard made of The Grinch.

::shudders::

Oh! The Mask. Probably the last time I liked Cameron Diaz too.

I loved Laurel Canyon. But that was just because I couldn't decide whether Frances McDormand or Christian Bale was hotter.

See, I can manage to watch Batman 3 by putting my thumb over Carrey, but it doesn't work with Unfortunate Events. Even with the sound off.

When you're too over-the-top to fit in a Joel Schumacher Batman movie, you might want to consider dialing it down a bit.