The reputation of Clint Eastwood as a legendary hard -cutting hard -screen even if it has managed to become one of the most respected directors in Hollywood. When we think of the man who directed “Million Dollar Baby” and “Unforgiven”, we cannot prevent thinking of the nameless man and “dirty” Harry Callahan. But the actor played many more diversified characters than he obtains and occupied several roles that man’s occasional fans may not expect.

In 1978, for example, Eastwood made the controversial decision to play in “Every Whats Wayan Say Woard” Faced with a qualified orangutal Orang-Outan named Manis. The action comedy saw him and his co-star traveling through the United States in search of a woman whom the character of Eastwood was convinced is his soul mate-and don’t know, the film was a success, generating the 1980s “Ay Why Way You Can”, who saw Eastwood and his boyfriend to join forces. The rest was not completely successful and took a radiography of criticism. But his star had already proven that he could manage the comedy with “Every Whats Way But Loose”, who represented a big change of rhythm for an actor who had started the decade playing the robust hideou Harry Callahan in “Dirty Harry”. Whatever the way in which the continuation occurred, the public had already responded favorably to Eastwood playing against type, and then he tried lighter dishes.

Unfortunately, not all Eastwood comedies faced after this moment of hinge in his career as well. Take “Pink Cadillac” from 1989, in which the veteran star portrayed a bonus hunter with a propensity for elaborate disguises. The action comedy saw Eastwood come together with the director of “Anyway that you can” Buddy Van Horn and, once again, the results were not great. The criticisms did not kindly take the film, although it at least gave us an undeniably funny scene in which the Gruff Eastwood meets a young Jim Carrey doing what the actor does the best.

Jim Carrey and Clint Eastwood actually crossed trails for the first time in “The Dead Pool” in 1988, one The worst of the five films “Dirty Harry”. In this last film of the franchise (unless you count the spiritual suite “Gran Torino”), Carrey can be seen by playing a singer of Heavy Metal whose most memorable scene implies the synchronization of the lips at “Welcome to the Jungle” in a musical video tribute to “The Exorcist” directed by Liam Neeson. (You may start to understand why the film was so badly received.) Carrey does not last long in the film and has no scenes with Eastwood, but he would have another chance of working with the veteran star a year after the start of “The Dead Pool”.

In “Pink Cadillac”, Tommy Nowak of Eastwood, retraces Lou Ann McGuinn by Bernadette Peters, who jumped the deposit and fled to the holder vehicle with money belonging to a group of white supremacists. He finds it in a casino and sits at a table while an actor works on stage in the background. This actor is Carrey, who can even be understood to offer an early interpretation of his ACE Ventura now classic “ALRIGHTY then” in the film.

While Nowak and McGuinn discuss, the camera cuts to Carrey making its schick, which, in this case, is an Elvis tribute played with its arms hidden inside its shirt. Eastwood marrying at Carrey practicing on stage is undoubtedly funny and seems to represent exactly what the actor would feel if he encountered the Bouffonneries de Carrey in real life. He has the same energy a lot as Tommy Lee Jones’ famous Carrey reprimand during the filming of “Batman Forever” ,,,,, in which he told the star of the time that he could not “sanction” his “jester”. In this brief scene of “Pink Cadillac”, that’s about what I imagine Eastwood. Unfortunately, the rest of the film is not as funny.

“Pink Cadillac” was the third collaboration between Clint Eastwood and director Buddy Van Horn, who, except to direct “any way you can”, was also responsible for “The Dead Pool”. It is not exactly the most beautiful contribution to the famous work of Eastwood (although Carrey’s musical performance in the latter is one of the years The biggest moments of film “Dirty Harry”), but at least with his 1989 action comedy, the filmmaker had finally managed to bring together Eastwood and Jim Carrey in a single scene. Otherwise, “Pink Cadillac” was mainly rejected by criticism, although some found it quite charming.

The film was only doing it slightly better than the 20% score for “any way you can” Rotten tomatoes, With a 24% critical score based on 21 journals. Roger Ebert found the dull film and his unequal tone, writing: “There is little new in the material, and no one seems to have asked if the emotional load of flagrant racism belongs to a light story like this – even if the racists are the bad guys.” Likewise, Caryn James of the New York Times described the film as “The Laz the most action comedy”, with “hunting scenes in exercise, a script of dull spirit and the couple without charm of Mr. Eastwood and Bernadette Peters”. If anything, it would have been better to team Eastwood with Carrey and let the two compete – especially since one of the best impressions of the first Carrey was a “Dirty Harry” -era Eastwood.

However, some were quite taken by “Pink Cadillac” with Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago reader who apparently saw an entirely different film. He wrote in his criticism: “As a deeply personal work on floating existential identities, this 1989 film has the kind of grain and feeling that few action orders can bring together, with Eastwood and interesting and unpredictable Peters everywhere.”