15 Bafflingly Low Rotten Tomatoes Scores You Won't Believe
5. The Cable Guy (54%)
Critical Consensus: "Aiming, perhaps, for a neat double helix of black humor and prankishness, they've ended up with a pretty ugly granny knot." - TIME Magazine Why Its Wrong: The critics just weren't expecting the movie to go as dark as it did, but for those prepared to take the plunge, the result is one of Jim Carrey's most interesting and off-the-wall performances. Whether he's singing Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love" or creeping around after Matthew Broderick, the movie has an underlying heart that reveals itself later on and ties everything together nicely. Plus, the general media satire is savagely intelligent and far ahead of its time, yet was largely ignored upon release. Why The Critics Hated It: Jim Carrey in a kinda-serious movie? No way! It must just be that the movie isn't very funny, right? Yep, that has to be it. It couldn't be that he wanted to try something more adventurous, no?
Stay at home dad who spends as much time teaching his kids the merits of Martin Scorsese as possible (against the missus' wishes).
General video game, TV and film nut. Occasional sports fan. Full time loon.
