On the surface, this movie looks like a typical example of Hollywood arrogance. Produced by the same people behind "Ghostbusters" and "Happy gilmore", this is the movie responsible for Jim Carrey becoming the first actor to collect a $20 million dollar bank cheque. But to his acclaim, Carrey returns to the heat by going the extra mile and sticking his neck out more than ever before. After the successful horseplay of "The mask" and "Batman forever", The cable guy tells a venturous departure. Alright, in the central role he acts as another overdone, frantic and insane character. But for once, he is not a likeable dimwit. Instead, he is a unpleasent maniac. The movie is not a pure travesty, but rather a mockery with an unsettling edge to it.
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Anxiously, he suggests a bribe to the cable guy for free channels. This starts a nightmare co-dependent relationship. The friendless cable guy is lonely with no friends, only favourite customers. He instantly wants to be best friends with Steven and shortly becomes the friend from hell.
Carrey acts the entire movie with an expressionless lisp. Although this is more of a speech hindrance than a pretension, it installs a oddly gay subtext into the cable guy's needful longing that is never obviously stated. But then again, Carrey's entire style is a kind of flamboyant camp. And he pampers his brilliance for insane mimictry in a range of ways, like a midieval times joust tournament, some vicious basketball games and an amusing karaoke kind of Somebody to love by Jefferson Airplane.
Different to Carrey's other roles, this movie has ideas. The Cable Guy is an orphan of the television era, an abandoned kid who grew up with the foolish box as his parent. And for him, just like America, the lines between TV and real life has been hazy. This movie also implies the menacing consequence of the information
Anxiously, he suggests a bribe to the cable guy for free channels. This starts a nightmare co-dependent relationship. The friendless cable guy is lonely with no friends, only favourite customers. He instantly wants to be best friends with Steven and shortly becomes the friend from hell.
Carrey acts the entire movie with an expressionless lisp. Although this is more of a speech hindrance than a pretension, it installs a oddly gay subtext into the cable guy's needful longing that is never obviously stated. But then again, Carrey's entire style is a kind of flamboyant camp. And he pampers his brilliance for insane mimictry in a range of ways, like a midieval times joust tournament, some vicious basketball games and an amusing karaoke kind of Somebody to love by Jefferson Airplane.
Different to Carrey's other roles, this movie has ideas. The Cable Guy is an orphan of the television era, an abandoned kid who grew up with the foolish box as his parent. And for him, just like America, the lines between TV and real life has been hazy. This movie also implies the menacing consequence of the information