Keeping up with the Joneses becomes a criminal enterprise in this loose remake of the 1977 comedy that starred Jane Fonda and George Segal. Burned by an Enron-style corporate crash, jobless Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni suffer the indignity of having even their lawn repossessed. The impoverished pair turn Bonnie and Clyde, only to wind up victims of director Dean Parisot's badly aimed gags as the film lurches wildly from satire to slapstick. There are a few chuckles early on, but once Carrey and Leoni resort to pulling heists dressed up like Sonny and Cher (with Carrey doing Cher), it's clear the script has hit a wall. In a last ditch attempt to create intrigue, Parisot switches gears (yet again) for a final, "daring" robbery that actually involves watching ink dry. The more heinous offence is that Carrey and Leoni are wasted on this harebrained scheme.

After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and even enjoy it -- but they have second thoughts when they're reminded that crime can hurt innocent people. When the couple hears that Globodyne boss Jack McCallister actually swindled the company, they plot revenge.