"Fun with Dick and Jane" is the unremarkable remake of the unremarkable 1978 Jane Fonda/George Segal comedy about a suburban couple who turn to robbing banks to finance their consumer lifestyle.

Fans of Jim Carrey's rubber-limbed slapstick will undoubtedly be pleased. It's been a while since Carrey was as unfettered as he is here and the holdup sequences give him a chance to flip out with a freedom unavailable in more structured roles.

But the film is a one-joke idea — albeit one cannily updated by screenwriters Judd Apatow, Nicholas Stoller and Peter Tolan to reflect our current disgust with corporate malfeasance.

Dick (Carrey) and Jane (Tea Leoni) are living the American Dream. He's a mid-level exec with a big conglomerate called Globodyne; she's a travel agent. They've got a huge house with a pool, a BMW and a full-time maid who is raising their son (which may be why the kid now regards English as a second language).

When Dick is promoted they figure their worries are over. Jane quits her job and invests in some big capital improvements around the spread.

The celebration is premature. Globodyne has been systematically looted by the guys at the top. When the company goes belly up Dick discovers that his pension fund backed by company stock is now worthless. Too many jobless executives are competing for too few openings. Dick and Jane try to earn money as a manual laborer and a drug test subject but these gigs don't work out — although they do set the stage for the film's funniest scene in which Dick, face swollen from a brawl, and Jane, face puffy and frozen from a botox test gone wrong, commiserate over their miseries.

With the electricity turned off, the lawn repossessed and their big house unsellable in a market saturated with desperate former Globodyne employees, a life of crime seems the only way out. Pretty soon the couple are actually having fun, waving around realistic-looking squirt guns and disguising themselves as ninjas or, in an inspired moment, Sonny and Cher (she's Sonny, he's Cher).

After a close call during one bank job, our protagonists decide to go after a more deserving target: the former CEO of Globodyne (Alex Baldwin), who has made off with billions that belong to the company's loyal workers. They decide to scam the scammer.

Director Dean Parisot hit a high point a few years back with the memorable "Galaxy Quest." But "Fun with Dick and Jane" is instantly forgettable. Heck, it's not even that much fun while you're watching it.