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Article: Jim Carrey can't quite do scary in 'The Number 23'
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- The Sun - Plainfield (IL)
- Article date:
- February 23, 2007
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COURTESY OF NEW LINE CINEMA Jim Carrey plays tough - but still elicits laughs - in "The Number 23."|COURTESY OF NEW LINE CINEMA Jim Carrey plays tough - but still elicits laughs - in "The Number 23."
Don't freak out, but as I write this review there are exactly 23 paper clips in the drawer of my desk.
If you don't find that to be supernaturally significant - and I'm really hoping you don't - you shouldn't bother with "The Number 23," a laughable thriller so out of touch with its own ridiculousness that it serves as a shining example of movie camp.
The picture's marketing campaign - which desperately tries to wring chills out of coincidences involving the title figure - is silly enough, but ...