The Cable Guy [M]

Recently dumped by his girlfriend, Steven moves into his own place and thinks that he’ll spend all his time watching TV. But that was before he met Chip Douglas, the cable guy who comes to fix his set. Chip is a guy with a few loose wires in his head and a couple of obsessive qualities befitting of a stalker. Worse still, Chip is lonely and wants a friend, and once he lets him into his house, Steve is going to have a hard time getting Chip out of his life. 

I sincerely worry about the people in the world today that find this movie funny and recommend it to other people. The Cable Guy has to be the biggest blight on Jim Carrey’s career and, quite frankly, I don’t see how anyone can find this film remotely funny. 

Recently dumped by his girlfriend, Steven moves into his own place and thinks that he’ll just spend all his time watching TV. But what was before he met Chip, the cable guy who comes to fix his set. Chip is a guy with a few loose wires in his head and a couple of obsessive qualities that are befitting of a stalker. Worse still, Chip is lonely and wants a friend, and once he lets him into his house, Steve is going to have a hard time getting Chip out of his life. 

I think the major problem with this film, aside from the really bad script, was the fact that it just didn’t know where it was going or even what it wanted to be. It starts off as a seemingly funny film about intentions of friendship going from bad to worse, but then it suddenly veered off the path and turned into some weird psychopath film. I have to say, at this point, that I have sat down and endured this movie, voluntarily, four times and each time, I just get more and more enraged and confounded by it. I HONESTLY CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY THIS FILM IS IN EXISTANCE! It felt as if the filmmakers thought it would work and then the characters, Chip’s in particular, began to evolve, and it was too late in the shoot for the makers to halt everything and change the direction in which it was going. The entire thing is just one, big, confusing, mess of blackmail, psychos, stalkers, and bad dialogue. 

I have a great deal of respect and awe for Jim Carrey, so I will not say what I thought of his performance in this film, but I will say “Why Jim? WHY?!” 

Starring Matthew Broderick, Jack Black, Leslie Mann, Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, and George Segal, The Cable Guy was a terrible psychopathic comedy that just did not know what is was trying to be. Filled with TV, romance, “comedy”, and film and TV quotes, I would not recommend this movie to anyone… let’s be honest. 

DON’T BLOODY BOTHER! YOU WILL LEAD A FULL AND HAPPY LIFE WITHOUT WATCHING THIS FILM!