Movie Review - Yesman

Take the unfunny Jim Carrey playing a bank finance officer called Carl who has just been overlooked for promotion and tries to avoid his friends & neighbours, his life is shown to be dull and unfulfilling until a chance meeting with an old friend who persuades him to go to a positive affirmation seminar (run by Terrance Stamp). He then decides he will say yes to every question he is asked and the alledged hilarity ensues.

To show how great saying yes is it leads to things like him being promoted for agreeing to work a Saturday, his relationship with his friends improves and he even has sex with one of his neighbours (she's a senior citizen though). It improves his social life (he takes a ton of classes to learn and try things) and goes to a gig where he meets Alison, a girl who had helped him on his 1st day of saying yes (played by a very lovely looking dark haired Zooey Deschanel).

There is a fair bit of product placement (Tempur mattresses & Red Bull stand out the most) and it turns out the film is based on a book by British comedian & presenter Danny Wallace (God damn you Dave Gorman!). The films worst goof is at the skeet shooting place where Alison is clearly holding a double barrelled shotgun and fires her 1st shot into the ground but hits the clay pigeon with her second shot but everyone there STILL dives to the ground when she turns around pointing a completely empty and totally harmless gun at them.

There's the incredibly pointless and utterly paranoid "we think you're a terrorist" scene at the airport, is America really THAT frightened that is has to start putting stuff like this into an alledged comedy movie?

Alison gets annoyed and angry when she finds out about the whole saying yes to everything idea and it is shown to eventually ruin his life again as he breaks up with Alison, is unsatisfied with his promotion and he is made to tell his former bank colleagues their branch is being closed.

Its not all doom & gloom as he uses his yes friends to organize a last minute bridal shower for his best friends fiance (who I recognised as being in NCIS), theres also an ongoing up and down relationship with his ex-girlfriend and her current guy who dumps her but his saying no to staying the night with her leads to a series of events that winds up with Carl in hospital after a car crash.

Theres another annoying goof (the riding the Ducati scene), Carl only had a tiny bit of experience with a small moped (almost certainly with no gears) but they expected us to believe he'd be able to drive a 1000cc geared bike and not crash it?

There's a fairly predicatable feel good ending but the scene in the seminar is funny and unexpected. The movie isn't great, hasn't got that many stars, Carrey is extremely annoying but the supporting cast of people who he meets along the way do make the movie worth watching and extremely bearable.