First time I watched this movie I didn't realize it, but upon watching it again I find the background music so over the top with typical Hollywood overtones.
shareYeah I agree a lot of 90's movies had background music like that, particularly comedies. Thankfully it doesn't seem to be around anymore.
shareI really enjoy crazy comedy scores like this one, I didn't think it was over the top at all.
Weird is the new normal.
I gotta agree with Mr DirectorsCut. I really enjoy those kind of 90's scores. Total nostalgia! Though, I am not sure it would work today.
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Its typical 90's stuff.
shareYou mean that here comes the paperboy type music? I can take it or leave it, nostalgic I guess.
shareIt's funny but I really liked the score. I actually noticed it too, but I was thinking to myself that it really added to the movie. I'm surprised that someone even complained about it. I guess in the sad moments, some might complain that it made it too sappy. But I really did enjoy it.
shareThe score is interesting.
On one hand, it's syrapy and sappy, and dripping with stupid, chick-flick-sentimentalism and emotionalism, like FORCING you to feel 'sad' or whatever. Urgh, irritating.
On the other hand, it brings some nostalgy, since I was going through a very exciting time in my life when I watched this movie the first 20 times, so these musics remind me of that era. Individual bias can be powerful.
Then there is the odd thing that the music somehow fits the movie anyway, and it is sort of a message 'not to take this movie too seriously', and it gives the movie a bit of personality in some way.
If I had to choose to change the irritating kid, the unrealistic plot, or the sappy music, I would probably go for the first two before touching the third one.
And by unrealistic plot, I mean only that a kid would never be that attached to a father that's never there - kids are not that one-goal-oriented usually. You just give them a new toy or a computer/video game, and they will forget they even have parents, until it's time to eat or something.
The rest of the plot I didn't mind much - it's somewhat easy on the misandry (though it has that annoying fema-fascist scene where Fletcher convinces the hag to be a victim (probably actually very realistic, at least in content, if not expression) - and typical women-slap-men-on-the-face-without-retaliation-unequality crap, etc.), and although there are the 'annoying kid'-moments and the 'bad Carrey moments' (with the kid), Carrey gives so much pure fun into the movie, that the plot sort of diminishes into the background anyway somewhat.
The funniest bit is the blooper-reel, I wish there was more of it.
To add to my ancient comment; the music sort of 'lives' with every situation. It may be a bit too much, it doesn't always let the movie express itself, the music is like an annoying kid that wants to be part of EVERYTHING the big kids are doing.
It's like they couldn't have one scene or almost one second without some sort of 'musical support' to guide the moment in the 'right direction'.
I can see how that can be annoying. However, the music is also sort of harmless and at least it's not disturbing, it doesn't have any 'tearing sounds' that would really make me turn the volume off, it doesn't get too loud when people are speaking (like so many youtube videos), and for the most part, it doesn't harm anything, it doesn't feel like it's completely inappropriate for the scene, and it doesn't take your attention away from what's happening.
In fact, most youtubers could learn from how the music should be used. But like most youtubers, this movie does stuff the music everywhere a bit too much.
(There are so many videos that don't need any music, but some cretin put it in there anyway, or videos that would be better without music, but always some cliché guitar has to strum through the whole thing, etc.. less is more, but people don't understand what that means)
This movie is a Jim Carrey humor-expression vehicle, and anything else is basically 'optional extra'. You may or may enjoy all that other stuff, but that's not what the movie is about anyway. This movie's core is "Jim Carrey humor", and everything else is there just so there's an actual movie where to put all that humor.
The movie is basically a CONTAINER for the main part, nothing special by itself.
So even the music is just there to support the main core of the movie, not to be anything that interesting by itself.