Cast: Jim Carey (as Carl Allen), Zooey Deschanel (as Allison), Bradley Cooper (as Peter), Molly Sims (as Stephanie) and others..

Plot: A guy challenges himself to say “Yes” to everything no matter how ridiculous it sounds, as he believes that it affects his life positively!

Review: Yes Man! is loose adaptation of a book written by a british author, Danny Wallace, who compiled his experiences in saying Yes to everything he came across for a period of one year.

The movie starts with the usual Jim Carey style, lots of faces with incoherent dialogue’s, useless (rather funny) situations, mostly to establish his character as a “No” man!, whereby he says “No” to more things than he say “Yes” to. This mostly results in him being lonely, bored and single. As the movie progresses, the underlying cause of his attitude is revealed, Stephanie (played by sexy Molly Sims)! who left him almost two years back, only after being married to Carl for almost six months. Carl has withdrawn into a shell since and hides for opening up to new things, new situations.

One day on his lunch break from his monotonous job, he comes across a disheveled person, who is actually an old friend of Carl’s. He tells Carl how his life has changed since he became a “Yes Man!” and asks him to come for a seminar and check it out for himself! Carl finally visits and commits to become a “Yes Man”, and starts to saying yes to everything he comes across…which fatefully makes him come across, a free spirited girl, Allison (played by Zooey Deschanel). As he progressively becomes more accustomed to saying yes, he makes more and more friends and starts to enjoy life, a lot with Allison.

But, things change as he indiscriminately says Yes to everything! Carl decides to take on the seminar speaker and remove the covenant so he can go about and live his life, the way he wants, only to be told that there is no covenant!

The movie is nothing extraordinary, not well scripted or a classic like Jim’s previous movies, like Mask or Bruce Almighty! yet it fun, if there is nothing else to do!

Rating: 2.5 of 5

PS: Though the movie is nothing extraordinary, yet it brings across a very interesting realization to my own personal life. I would consider myself a “No Man! I’ve come to realize (at the behest of my lovely wife, Nidhi) that my initial reaction to most stuff is a No. I may change my mind later, and do it anyway, but I will always start with a No, not because I’m a pessimist or I’m not open to new things. I think the most plausible explanation I can put forth is that I’m a “cautiously optimistic” kind of a guy. I don’t do things just because I can, unless I want to, and to come to that realization, there are a lot of brain-cycles involved, to evaluate every scenario possible. Very rarely I would say “what the heck”.

I would never say “Yes” indiscriminately! No matter what people might like to believe about me. Deep down I know that unless I’m committed to follow up with it, I wont say Yes!