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Sure, in the title role [Carrey] plays another in-your-face, over-the-top, wild and crazy guy. But for once he is not a lovable goof. He is a rather unsavory psychotic. And the movie itself is not pure farce: it is satire, with a disturbing edge.

The Cable Guy is a gutsy move on Carrey's part, suggesting a willingness to grow just where commercial good sense would say to stand pat.

While it makes a convincing case that too much television is ultimately brain-rotting, it does so with an unjustifiable smugness.

This is a darker film for Carrey, but he's still Jim Carrey. His shenanigans keep even the blackest moments goofy.

As a supposed summer blockbuster, this is a very eccentric film: The Cable Guy mocks its star as a pathetic jerk and comes close to telling its audience that we are, too.