Based on Danny Wallace's humorous memoir, Yes Man is a comedy about what would happen if one man said 'yes' to everything that he would have previously dismissed with a cursory 'no'. Evidently, that air of reckless affirmation - regardless of the consequences - appears to extend to the filmmakers, who really should have thought twice about committing to a project that lacks a coherent script or well-developed characters. Writing trio Nicholas Stoller, Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel take a neat central conceit and go nowhere with it, bullishly contriving a series of ludicrous vignettes that guarantee maximum gurning from rubber-faced leading man Jim Carrey.
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