An up and coming Hollywood screenwriter (Carrey) finds himself blacklisted by the McCarthyist commie witch hunts that permeated Hollywood in the 1950s. He crashes his car, loses his memory, and is mistaken for the war hero son of an atypical Capra town.

Looking sexier than we’ve seen her before, Adams as Rose similarly feels life has passed her by, still meeting the man she loved in high school (Zahn), now a cop, in cheap motels to conduct their affair years after he’s married her high school rival.

The animation is sweeping and grandiose and it would have been a much better experienced on a larger screen, but if you’re after a darker, nastier Iron Man that’s more like Akira than Robert Downey Jr, don’t expect it here.