Robert Denerstein Scripps Howard News Service Jun 29, 2026 2/4

Director Ben Stiller does slick work, but Carrey's character is more disturbing than lovable, hardly the right slant for a comedy.

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Trace Thurman Horror Queers Podcast Jun 15, 2026 3/5

The Cable Guy certainly won't be for all tastes, but you've got to admire its audacity.

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Danielle Solzman Solzy at the Movies Jun 14, 2026 3/5

The Cable Guy deserves credit for taking risks, even if the film’s dark sense of humor never quite connects.

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Joe Lipsett Horror Queers Podcast Jun 10, 2026 3/5

Your mileage may vary on Carrey's 90s-era schtick, but there's no denying how prescient and media-literate this heavily queer-coded dark comedy is.

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Justin Brown Medium Popcorn Mar 23, 2025 4/5

This is so crazy and nutty but it makes me laugh so much. Jim Carrey's out of his mind in this.

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Brandon Collins Medium Popcorn Mar 23, 2025 4/5

I had a lot fun rewatching this. Jim Carrey's so insane but it's darkly hilarious. I wish we could've seen what Stiller would have done with the role, but I still laugh constantly when this is on.

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Patrick Z. McGavin Chicago Reader Jun 14, 2022 2/4

...on the whole The Cable Guy is about as subversive a mainstream comedy as you’ll find...

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Sheila Reid Women in the Life May 31, 2022

You'll be surprised when you find yourself laughing out loud.

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James Croot The Post NZ Jul 20, 2021 3.5/5

As with Reality Bites two years earlier, director Stiller makes some astute observations about Generation X and its love of television - and media in general.

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Gena Radcliffe The Spool Jun 16, 2021

Just on paper Chip is an unsettling character, but it's Carrey who really brings him to horrifying life.

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Leigh Paatsch Herald Sun (Australia) May 12, 2020 3.5/5

The hook to this weirdly compelling film is its teasing nature as a comedy of terrors.

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Brian D. Johnson Maclean's Magazine Mar 22, 2019

Sure, in the title role [Carrey] plays another in-your-face, over-the-top, wild and crazy guy. But for once he is not a lovable goof. He is a rather unsavory psychotic. And the movie itself is not pure farce: it is satire, with a disturbing edge.

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Dave Kehr New York Daily News Mar 11, 2019 3/4

The Cable Guy is a gutsy move on Carrey's part, suggesting a willingness to grow just where commercial good sense would say to stand pat.

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Michael Dwyer Irish Times Mar 11, 2019

While it makes a convincing case that too much television is ultimately brain-rotting, it does so with an unjustifiable smugness.

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Mark Bazer Boston Phoenix Mar 11, 2019

This is a darker film for Carrey, but he's still Jim Carrey. His shenanigans keep even the blackest moments goofy.

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Mark Steyn The Spectator Mar 11, 2019

As a supposed summer blockbuster, this is a very eccentric film: The Cable Guy mocks its star as a pathetic jerk and comes close to telling its audience that we are, too.

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Wallace Baine Santa Cruz Sentinel Mar 11, 2019 B-

Those who like enjoy seeing performers open up their ids in the name of comedy might get a kick out of Carrey's spooky malevolence. Others, however, enter at their own risk.

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Ryan Gilbey Independent (UK) Dec 12, 2018

It barely matters that The Cable Guy fails [to satirize TV], because it is crammed with other pleasures, not least Carrey, who lets us glimpse the human being behind the sociopath.

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Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune Dec 12, 2018 3/4

Carrey's life-of-a-bad-party manner is a major hoot as he toys with Broderick over legal and illegal installations.

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Jay Boyar Orlando Sentinel Dec 12, 2018

Whether Carrey's fans will like it or not, the film is easily his best crafted piece of work to date.

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