Look, if you loved this as a kid in 1995, I get it—Jim Carrey was everywhere and this kind of zany comedy was peak entertainment. But here's the truth: this movie has aged like milk left in a hot car.
The humor is aggressively crude (bathroom jokes, sexual innuendo, that infamous rhino scene), and the portrayal of African tribes is embarrassingly stereotypical. What played as silly adventure comedy 30 years ago now feels culturally insensitive and just... exhausting.
Modern kids raised on smarter animated films and more sophisticated comedy will likely find this boring or confusing rather than funny. And parents will spend the whole runtime cringing at jokes that definitely don't land in 2025.
If your tween is curious about Jim Carrey, maybe start with The Truman Show instead. This one's best left as a nostalgic memory rather than a family movie night pick.






