Off-screen Carrey and Zellweger are an item, but on screen they look totally mismatched. In order for the viewer to develop the slightest interest in the film, the romance between Charlie and Irene needs to work, and it does not. There's nothing in this film that's half as funny as the zipper scene in "There's Something About Mary." The jokes, like half-drowning a little girl, breast feeding (at the bosom of Shannon Whirry) and shooting a cow in the head, just don't cut it. Once the dual characters of Charlie and Hank go into action it isn't much better. You don't expect to be bored when you go to see a movie starring Jim Carrey. The opening 20 minutes of the film, essentially, a long flashback, with a narrator droning on and on, is boring. Hank takes her to a fountain and holds her head underwater. In one scene, a little girl mouths off to Charlie when he tells her not to play in the street. It is not a big stretch from what he did in "Liar, Liar," or in "Mask," but it doesn't work very well. The idea of having Carrey play a character with a split personality is a good one. While battling his schizophrenia, Charlie is asked to escort Irene (Zellweger) to another jurisdiction and the two become embroiled in some complex machinations involving the EPA and Irene's former employers. The new personality, Hank, is only too happy to take his pent-up rage out on other people. The rage builds up inside of him until his personality splits. This is a running gag throughout the movie.Ĭharlie is a laughingstock because everyone knows he isn't the father of his children and no one has any respect for him. Thanks to the smart midget they are also all geniuses. He is left to raise the kids, who grow up on the raunchy humor of Richard Pryor and Chris Rock. Soon after being married, he is cuckolded and his wife runs away with a smart dwarf (played by Tony Cox). Carrey plays Charlie, a good natured highway patrolman. The basic premise of the story is pretty good. It is written and directed by the very talented Farrelly brothers, Bobby and Peter Farrelly ("There's Something About Mary," "Dumb and Dumber" and "Kingpin"). Not only is Carrey involved in this project, but so is Renée Zellweger (of "One True Thing" and "Jerry Maguire"), Chris Cooper ("American Beauty" and "October Sky") and Oscar nominee Robert Forster ("Jackie Brown"). J- Jim Carrey is a great comic talent who rocketed to stardom as a butt-talking private animal investigator and then switched from low-brow humor to artistry in Oscar-calibre performances in "The Truman Show," and in "Man in the Moon." It is therefore shocking to see how so much talent can go to waste in "Me, Myself and Irene."
Jim Carrey in a sub-par schizoid flick by Robert Roten, Film Critic Laramie Movie Scope: Me, Myself and Irene
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