The Cable Guy (DVD) Reviews

The Cable Guy is a dark comedy, directed by Ben Stiller, which was released in 1996. Stiller also writes the film and has a minor role as well. It is about an unhinged cable guy Chip Douglas (Jim Carrey), who thinks he has become best friends with one of his customers, Steven Kovacs (Matthew Broderick), after illegally installing free pay cable ...

--THE CABLE GUY-- 'The Cable Guy' was released in 1996 .- Directed by Ben Stiller (Reality Bites) and starring Jim Carrey, Jack Black and Steven M Kovaks. - Genre: Comedy/Thriller. - BBFC Rating: 12 (cut) - Running Time: 96 Minutes. When a young guy Steve Kovack (Matthew Broderick) moves into his new apartment after ...

The most exciting thing of this movie is, in my opinion, the party arranged by Jim Carrey. He is a funny guy and he has the innate ability to make everything enjoyable. No wonder his parties will be the same. However, he made some weird things as usual for him too. This movie is not very suitable for kids from my viewpoint, may be I am ...

As I walked out of the cinema with a group of friends we all knew what was on each other minds... now what on earth was that all about? Poor scripting and off-beat jokes lead to this awful movie. As far as I could make out Jim Carrey plays 'the cable guy', who goes round installing illegal cable in hope of finding friendship. ...

This certainly isn't the best film Jim Carey has stared in and it isn't the worst. Jim Carey plays the cable guy, a man with no friends, likes going to wierd places and is desperate to find someone to hang out with. When he is called out to fix a man's cable, he decides to make friends with this man. The cable guy makes ...

Jim Carrey is one hell of a strange man. He goes from over the top crazyman in films like "the mask" and the next minute he's all serious in "the truman show". I think he's a pretty funny man anyway and he returns as a mixed character in "the cable guy". This got a bit of a slating from critics and from fans, ...

When first released, Cable Guy was such an unusual departure for Jim Carrey and his usual slapstick, manic, goofy comedies that people just didn't understand it or like it. When word of Carrey's enormous $20 million paycheck for this film spread, hopes were high that Cable Guy would be smothered in Carrey's slice of hilarious dementia ...

I've seen most of Jim Carrey's films, but this one left me with a bitter taste in my mouth. Carrey's character, a psychotic cable installer who stalks a customer and bullies him into being "pals" is scary to say the least. The string of arm-twists and choke-holds Carrey had for his pal, a very reluctant Matthew Broderick were ...

This film was really really crap. Boy I am glad I rented it out and not wasted even more money and effort even bothering to go and see it because it was useless. I was quite hopeful and thought it my be enjoyable like Jim Carrey's numerous other comedys but I was bitterly disappointed. The storyline was unbearable at times and even the ...

Although it's not the best film that these two actors have ever starred in, it's still a good laugh, and has some very dark comedy. Just how would you put off a cable guy who really didn't have any friends at all, and wanted you to be his best friend!? This is just what happens to poor old Matt Broderick in this film, and ...

He was at the height of his career. But with 'Ace Ventura' and 'The Mask' behind him, rubber-faced maniac Jim Carrey opted for the darkly twisted half-comedy and with it, set foot on the slippery slope to failure. You can see why he did it - hoping to try and break away from the rampant, rat-tat-tat slapstick that characterised his ...

"The Cable Guy" got a very rude reception when it came out due mainly to two things 1). The amount of money Jim Carrey got for doing this film (20 million!) and 2). The fact that Carrey wasn't doing his usual schtick. While I don't see why Carrey got paid $20 million for this, I also can't see why people are so down on ...

I always felt that this film, got a bit of a hard wrap. At points in the film, it does seem fairly pointless but the film is not all bad. Although saying that, I must admit that the first time I saw this film at the cinema, I hated it, but have since seen it again and my impression of it has hightened alittle. I think after seeing Jim Carrey in ...

Just before he made the break into serious acting for real, Jim Carrey put a toe in the water with 'The Cable Guy', a delibrate attempt to subvert his wild and crazy persona into something darker and more ambivalent. The hero of this film is Steven Kovacs (Matthew Broderick), a newly single guy who accidentally befriends cable installer ...

I can’t quite work our whether this film is a comedy or a drama, and I suppose this probably means the director hasn’t completed the task. Starring Jim Carrey (star of the Ace Ventura movies), you would expect a goofy and comical movie, yet it isn’t. I actually think in some warped way this was aimed at cracking ...

This film frightened me and it did not entertain me. Jim Carey plays a cable guy who will fit all cable channels for free, for a one-off payment of $50. He does this for Matthew Broderick’s character and then proceeds to involve himself in Broderick’s life to such an extent that he becomes an inherent and permanent nuisance. ...

Nothing angers me more than when people claim this was Carrey's worst film just because it did not earn 100 million. This film is undoubtedly the most clever and best film of Jim Carrey. His other films, though very good, just don't compare to the reality based humor of this film. From the classic Medieval Times excursion to the perhaps ...

This remains remains a tie with Dumb and Dumber for my favorite Carrey film. I cannot choose one over the other because they really are 2 different comic entities. Don't expect the giddiness of the Mask or Ace Ventura here, but expect a pretty dark comedy which Carrey fits into "like a gllloove! " I never knew that he could be so ...

To be fair, I will say right at the begining that I am not a Jim Carey fan anyway..... but this film plumbs new depths even for him. This film did not make me laugh if made me cringe. To take a story of a lonely guy, who is so obviously mentally ill and then expect us to laugh at it is an insult to our intelligance. I found the ...

This is a funny film, that is if you are a fan of Jim Carrey, star of the always amusing Ace Ventura. He plays a mentally disturbed Cable guy. As the story develops the 'cable guy' becomes a figure of fear as the viewer is associated with the unlucky sap who the cable guy has choosen. This is, as always, a great and extremely ...