Re: [NEWS] Jim Carrey in talks to play live-action George Jetson

On 10/16/2025 11:31 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:12:44 +1300, Your Name <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>>
>> A Jetson's live-action movie was likely to be awful (although The
>> Flinstones live-action movies are probably the few
>> animated-to-live-action movies that actually get close to being any
>> good!) ... but, with the abysmal Jim Carrey in the lead role, this
>> live-action "The Jetsons" movie is 1000% guaranteed to be utter
>> garbage.  :-\
> 
> I enjoyed /The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle/ -- once I realized
> that it had captured the essence of the show. That is, that it /felt/
> like the original. And Boris/Natasha planning to settle down and raise
> "the nastiest children in the world" was an unexpected extension of
> their characters.
> 
> I never liked either "The Flintstones" nor "The Jetsons" TV shows. I
> never saw the Flintstones movie (well, certainly not the live-action
> one) and am unlikely to see the Jetson's.
> 
> But Jim Carrey I have seen, in several films. While I can't say this
> is always a good thing to do, several of his films were enjoyable. l
> may even have one in my DVD collection, who can say?

I can count on one hand the times a comedy has literally reduced me to 
tears of laughter.  Carrey (ACE VENTURA) has one of them.