Review of The Cable Guy (1996) by Whit W — 15 Aug 2011

"The Cable Guy" was absolutely not what I expected. You can use the term dark comedy to describe this, but I didn't think a lot of it was that funny. Instead, it was a creepy look at a stalker who morphs from friendless loner to possibly criminally disturbed and back to an even more sympathetic loner. He starts as a bother to Matthew Broderick's character and ends up being dangerously life threatening.

Carrey is probably as good here as he's been in anything else. He plays his "Chip" lightly annoying at first and by the final act, I was convinced he was a serial killer or something.

There wasn't a lot that stood out in Ben Stiller's direction and the story was nothing amazing but this was a different application of Carrey's manic, flailing delivery.