An odd comic concept: a retriever of missing animals (and a virtual Saint Francis to an illicit menagerie in his Miami apartment). The man himself, Jim Carrey, is still odder: a spastic, rictus-afflicted, ducktailed rejectee from a Grease audition, whose mouth (and sometimes even voice) resembles Dan Aykroyd doing Dick Nixon. The physical comedy is quite inventive, or at least quite hard-working: the simple act of crossing a railed terrace, to the beat of the Mission Impossible theme, is transformed into a private little cliffhanging melodrama (quite childlike, too). The ending is severely taxing, but it doesn't cancel all earlier tickles. With Sean Young, Courteney Cox, and professional footballer Dan Marino (as himself); directed by Tom Shadyac. (1994) — Duncan Shepherd
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