Which Ride or Die director directed the 2008 Jim Carrey film Yes Man?

Peyton Reed directed the 2008 Jim Carrey film Yes Man.

Yes Man is a romantic comedy starring Jim Carrey as Carl Allen, a withdrawn bank employee who challenges himself to say “yes” to every opportunity. Reed directed the film from a screenplay by Nicholas Stoller, Jarrad Paul, and Andrew Mogel, with Zooey Deschanel playing Allison, Carl’s love interest.

The movie was loosely based on British humorist Danny Wallace’s 2005 memoir, which describes Wallace’s experiment with accepting invitations and possibilities instead of reflexively refusing them. The film expands that premise into a Hollywood romantic comedy and uses it to explore the difference between openness and reckless behaviour.

Yes Man was part of Reed’s run of studio comedies, following Bring It On, Down with Love, and The Break-Up. He later moved into major franchise filmmaking by directing Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. That superhero work can make his earlier comedy career easy to overlook.