Search - The Majestic on DVD

Lydia Z. (grandmalydia)
Reviewed on 12/15/2022...

I enjoyed this Movie! ! Jim Carey did an excellent job.

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Sharon F. (Shar) from AVON PARK, FL
Reviewed on 7/28/2012...

Pleasantly surprised at Carey's role in this movie. Great family movie, very uplifting.

1 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Ursula S. from BRANFORD, CT
Reviewed on 7/28/2011...

One of Jim Carrey's best; very moving and wonderful. I can and have watched it several times.

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Ronald S. (Tony)
Reviewed on 3/11/2011...

Great movie, great story. I've watched this movie several times and still enjoy it.

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A Delightful Film !

BeachReader | Delaware | 06/24/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Jim Carrey did a wonderful job in this movie, playing Luke, an amnesiac who is not really who people think he is. Like his character in "The Truman Show", this was not a comedic role and shows his versatility as an actor. In the beginning of the movie, he is Peter, a rather sketchy Hollywood screenwriter. As Luke, he assumes an very different persona.The slow pace and the length of this film permit full character development. Viewers really get to know the characters and to care about them and their lives. Especially wonderful in her role was Laurie Holden, an actress who was new to me but who did a magnificent job in the role of Carrey's girlfriend. Her down-to-earth performance was right on target.The Majestic, a run-down movie theater, becomes the rallying point for the townspeople - a symbol of the re-birth of a young man who has returned from the dead and the regeneration of a town which lost over 60 young men in the war. The entire town embraces Luke and rallies behind he and his father as they attempt to resuscitate the defunct theater.This ode to America and its freedoms came as a welcome change. It was a delightful, easy-to-watch, nostalgic movie with a feel-good message, showing patriotic, small-town values. What could be wrong with that?"

Jim Carey at his best

classicflicks | St Lawrence Seaway, MI | 03/07/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"We've always loved the Majestic, but it's especially poignant watching it now, as America is at war. The small town that rescues Jim Carey's character is what we all want; the sincere sharing of joys and sorrows with others that have been where we've been.



I don't know why The Majestic ended up being a relative sleeper. (For that matter, I don't know why Saving Grace, Pure Luck, and other brilliant movies with brilliant acting ended up that way, either.) Except for in the Majestic, the lead was played by a man who everyone expects to see playing someone wacky or stupid, no exceptions. It's a shame. Carey was brilliant in this thought-provoking, heart-warming film."

McCarthy Age Love Story

Kathy W | Baltimore | 01/23/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I LOVE this movie. Some of my friends don't and I don't have a clue why. It's a serious role for Jim Carey, something you don't often see. There are also some other faces you will recognize, like Martin Landau (Space 1999) and the town doctor (one of the Major Franks from Mash).



Jim Carey is a Hollywood Writer who is named as having possible Communist ties in the McCarthy witchhunt for communists period in our history. (If you were named as a possible Communist, you were blackballed until your name was cleared--guilty before proven innocent. By the way, you cleared yourself by being investigated and naming someone else.)



Jim gets disgusted when, after being accused, the plug on his film project is pulled and he takes off for a drive. He has an accident, loses his memory, and wakes up on the beach in a small town where he is recognized as Martin Landau's son Luke, who went off to war and has been gone for many years.



It's a great flick about a town who gave up more than it's share of young men to fight in the war and many never returned. The whole town celebrates Luke's return as he rekindles his former love relationship with his girl and fond remeberances with the town's people, in the backlight are the McCarthy trials and how they infringe on the rights of the people.



Like I said, great story line. You fall in love with the whole town as it enfolds."