Every Jim Carrey Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best

Carrey has had some great successes when venturing into genres other than comedy, but Dark Crimes is not one of them. This movie was filmed in 2015, and while it was technically released some places in 2016, its official release didn't come until 2018. Jim tries his best, but it's not enough to overcome how truly sloppy the movie around him is—it currently holds a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

While it's a delight to see the chemistry between Carrey and Jeff Daniels is still there after 20 years (seriously, these guys love each other and it is fantastic), this sequel...is not good. In fact, it's atrocious, and borderline unwatchable.

Enjoy the warm fuzziness you feel from the Daniels-Carrey reunion as long as it lasts, because once it's gone all that's left is a really bad movie that you may not even be able to finish.

The Number 23 was another Jim Carrey attempt at trying something outside of the comedies he'd become known so well for and, well, it didn't work. If memes existed in 2007, there probably would've been quite a few making fun of this extremely odd movie and it's even stranger premise. The Number 23 sort of feels like the spiritual successor to the "Hello Mister Police" memes of a few years ago, or possibly even the proto-Morbius. The desire is really there to be a David Fincher-esque thriller, but the execution is not.

Jim Carrey actually once called Mr. Popper's Penguins his true passion project, something he wanted to work on for his entire career but just needed to secure the funding—just kidding. This 2011 family film is based on a 1938 beloved children's book of the same name. It's totally harmless and very middle-of-the-road.

Jim's role as Walter Getz in Peggy Sue Got Married is super small; this was just under a decade before he broke out, after all. That being said, it's still Jim Carrey in a Francis Ford Coppola movie. Gotta pay respect where it's due.

This pre-fame Carrey flick saw him paired with Jeff Goldblum and Damon Wayans as aliens who arrive on Earth looking for some much-needed female companionship. Carrey plays a character called "Wiploc," which by itself should give you a little insight into just how goofy this movie is. Geena Davis is also here (reuniting with Goldblum only a couple years after The Fly!).

This 1985 horror-comedy finds Carrey as a very horny (and sometimes possessed) high schooler in the midst of a wild vampire story. There are worse ways to spend a couple hours, but also better.

When I first heard about a comedy where Steve Carell was facing off with Jim Carrey and both were playing magicians, my expectations couldn't have been higher. What a duo! Those expectations came nowhere near being reached.

Carrey's Criss Angel-esque character is only in the movie for a few scenes (though he is admittedly funny), but the movie itself is mediocre at best. Negative points for a soundtrack that features Imagine Dragons.

The Bad Batch is a Mad Max-esque thriller starring our pal Jason Momoa. Don't go into this movie expecting the Jim Carrey with the gift of gab you probably expect—he plays a hermit who doesn't speak.

A few years before the disappointment of Burt Wonderstone, Carrey and Carrell also teamed up (albeit through voiceovers) for Horton Hears a Who! based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name. Ultimately, a nice children's movie! The Lorax, which came out a few years later, was better, though.

Where Tom Hanks was central to The Polar Express, Jim Carrey was central to this 2009 telling of A Christmas Carol. He played four characters: Scrooge, along with all three ghosts (Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future). Until last year's FX/BBC Christmas Carol, this may have been the darkest version of the story ever told. It movie made some money, and got mixed reviews, but didn't become a classic in the way another entry down the list did.

This movie was another attempt at Carrey going dramatic, but he has done it significantly better elsewhere. The movie, again, is fine, but it's a little over-earnest, and sometimes feels too similar to some It's a Wonderful Life -ish stuff.

While not as good as the original Kick-Ass, this sequel was more than passable, and Carrey's character was actually quite enjoyable. He plays Colonel Stars and Stripes, an ex-mafia member who became a born-again Christian and started to lead a team of vigilantes. He fits really well in this quasi-meta superhero world.

In a comeback of sorts, Sonic marked Carrey's first major big screen role since 2014.

Critics praised Carrey's Dr. Robotnik—the villain, and Sonic's enemy—as the best part of the film. It was called a vintage Carrey performance, and in the midst of the year 2020, you can't ask for much more.

If the first Sonic the Hedgehog was them figuring out how to make a Sonic movie as they went, the second Sonic the Hedgehog found the same team really leaning into what worked. Once again playing the frazzled villain, Carrey does his thing. Now what do we need to do to get him into some more movies? Or maybe movies where he's not starring alongside a speedy mammal?

Just on paper, this is a duo you know you love: Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. Carrey is so good in this movie, based on a true-life con artist and how he fell in love with the man he met during a short stint in prison.

This was a weird era of Batman movies, and this movie was a particularly bizarre pairing. Alongside a very miscast Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face, Carrey played The Riddler. Where the Batman villains of today tend to be more reeled in, this Riddler was basically a cartoon character. The whole movie, directed by The Number 23's Joel Schumacher, really is something. Not even necessarily bad! Just....something.

A few years after Dumb and Dumber, Carrey re-teamed with the Farrelly Brothers in an attempt to recapture that same magic. It didn't quite work to the same affect, but this movie with Carrey as a small-town police officer with a troublemaking split personality came right at the end of Carrey's golden '90s era, and has more than a few good laughs.

This oddly-prescient comedy about a couple that loses all their money when a company has an Enron-esque crash (it came out three years before the 2008 housing crisis) saw Carrey team with Tea Leoni as the titular Dick and Jane, in a movie that pokes fun at white collar crime and the big wigs who pull it off.

Alec Baldwin plays the lying executive who screws the pair out of a whole lot of money. It's funny! You don't hear many people talk about this movie these days, but that's OK. If you're ever flicking around for a movie and this is either streaming somewhere or halfway done playing on TBS, it's worth a shot.

Before this purposefully-dark YA series was adapted into a three-season Netflix Original Series, it was a 2004 film with Jim Carrey playing Count Olaf, the master of disguise thespian villain. And, honestly, this is exactly the kind of Jim Carrey performance that people come out for—he EATS up every scene he's in.

Even when he's not on screen, you're always looking for him. And he shares the screen (very randomly) with Meryl Streep!