TheRetroCritic

Jason Lee and Tom Green star in this overlooked comedy from 2002 about a guy having to find a way to steal $30,000 so his niece can go to Harvard since he'd promised to pay for her College education years prior. John's (Lee) uncharacteristic turn to a life of crime backfires early on when he hires the help of his friend Walter (Green), a moronic loser with consistently bad ideas. It doesn't help that John's girlfriend Elaine (Leslie Mann) has spent all their money on a downpayment for a house and that her father (the late, great Dennis Farina) hates John with a passion. With Lee and Green as the two leads, plus the involvement of Mann, Stealing Harvard might have confused cinemagoers back in the day in that it was neither a Kevin Smith film, a Judd Apatow film or a Tom Green-centric farce in the vein of Freddie Got Fingered . It feels like a film destined for the mid-to-late 90's which was frozen in the ice and thawed about 5 years too late for anyone to care.

Directed by Ben Stiller, The Cable Guy is a dark comedy starring Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick that proved maybe too weird for audiences back in 1996. It went from being treated as a joke to gaining a cult following over time but how does it fare today? The film sees Broderick's loser Steven move into a new apartment after awkwardly separating from his girlfriend (played by Leslie Mann) and meeting his "cable guy", a strange dude calling himself Chip Douglas (Jim Carrey) who speaks with a lisp, has a rather unpleasant sense of humour and who molests Steven's wall the very first time he meets him. Chip desperately wants to be friends with Steven and basically pushes this friendship onto him but when Chip finally crosses the line and Steven wants out, he soon becomes the latter's worst enemy. I could certainly see how going from The Mask or Dumb & Dumber to this would be a bit of a jump but seeing as, by this point, Jim Carrey had already played a dem