Jim Carrey’s Web Site: A Bizarre Visual Treat

Posted by majestic on November 7, 2009

Michelle Kung in the Wall Street Journal:

This weekend, the blogoverse has been all abuzz about Jim Carrey’s new Web site. Speakeasy was a bit suspicious, given how the site’s launch was timed to coincide with the opening of the actor’s tepidly-reviewed “A Christmas Carol.” So we checked out the site with a little bit of cynicism. We were pleasantly surprised.

The Flash-heavy site, created by 65 Media, the Web designers behind the landing pages for Hollywood movies like “Ratatouille” and “Land of the Lost,” is a bizarre, mind-bendy experience into the world of Jim Carrey. When you click on any of the  site’s tabs — broken into News, Biography, Filmography and Origins — the screen launches visitors on an in-your-face, Alice-down-the-rabbit-hole journey, zooming and twisting through various landscapes until you arrive at your final destination. Along the way, you are also treated to views of Carrey’s eyeball, a giant squid, and the actor posed as Adam from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling.

The site is also filled with Easter Eggs — if you click on a fleeting photographer that surfaces on-screen from time to time, a polaroid will pop up featuring candid snapshots of Carrey and his friends. The Canadian actor also gives shout-outs to his mother country and his daughter’s band’s MySpace page…