“Yes Man” won box office honors this week with $18.2 million in sales over the three day weekend beating out Will Smith’s “Seven Pounds” which came in at a slim $16 million. One of Will’s worst openings in seven years. The Warner Bros released film, “Yes Man” cost about $70 million to make so they hope to make the money back in the following weeks. They blame holiday distractions and bad weather for it not doing more than it did.

The Film is about, Carl (Jim Carrey) a loan officer who is depressed and has issues ever since divorcing his wife three years prior,and says “No” to all opportunities presented to him. Then one day he goes to a self help seminar in which the technique taught is to say “Yes” to every opportunity that come his way. It works out ok for a while ,but then he soon relizes the pitfalls associated with this new found technique and that he must adjust it a bit in order to make things right. This was Carrey’s best performance since, “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events” which opened up at $30 million and eventually made 118.6 million in the United States.

I personally enjoyed the film. It was funny as hell. Some critics say it was similar to his 1997 film, “Liar,Liar” where he has to always tell the truth. Although I do agree with that analogy, it doesn’t stop this film from being entertaining,and funny to the point of laughing out my seat. So I say, “Yes” to “Yes Man”. You can read my review here.

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