Me, Myself & Irene (2000)

Great Film overall

Did you people see the same film I saw?

As Good As It Gets

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Overall: Honestly this is up there with some of Jim Carrey's better performances and a must but for me on Blu Ray. Some will not enjoy this movie due to it's humor and the fact that its main point of humor is Split Personality disorder which may offend some people. Nevertheless, I think this is a great movie and would highly recommend it.Good: Hilarious and entertaining from the offset and throughout. Each character is likable and unlikable when they need to be to help the plot progress and change the viewers feelings towards them. The acting is superb for all the characters as is the overall cinematography .Bad: The overall villain is not that interesting and quite weak to be honest. He didn't really have much, if any, purpose other than to score a pretty forgettable climax. The actual plot is never properly cleared up or actually explained but his is probably glossed over because who really watches a comedy movie for the though provoking and moving story. The music isn't the best and feels quite lazy at some points.Best Part: The fight scene between Jim Carrey and.... himself! 8/10

Jim Carrey at the top of his prime. Farrelly Bros again. In this one Carrey develops an entirely separate schizophrenic identity within him. Lots of good laughs, some very good. You'll find yourself at least entertained even if you don't like Carrey particularly because this film contains so many gags, it's got a lot in its repertoire. The film is constant comedic material, it just lever lets out. It's, just like Dumb and Dumber but not as great as Dumb and Dumber, a movie entirely created for the purpose of making people laugh. This is what you would call: a pure comedy. Yes there is a romantic element in the plot but it's only a part of the ride and helps contribute to the laughter. This film is full to burst with various wacky characters, scenes, jokes, just a bunch of different angles to hit the viewer with. It's certainly at least a very fun ride, and if you're looking for something purely entertaining that's silly, GO FOR IT. Oh and Zellweger looks SMOKING in this one.

It is hard to believe a film as sick and trashy as this could have any admirers, but on the other hand, one person labeling those who would like it as "right wingers" is in itself an indicator of a pretty loony tunes view. And another reviewer thinks "gun nuts" would find shooting a poor cow six times in the head was funny! Are you insane?? I am a gun person and I was sickened by such a thing being humorous to a Hollywood moron. Some reviewers are more on the fringe than the actors who took the roles in this movie. This supposed comedy movie pushes beyond any limit in foul language, mostly applied to black characters, it has Carrey in his usual over-the -top trashy characterizations, the man simply goes way, way too far, every time, unfortunately in this movie there are too many opportunities for him to do so. The crudity and vulgarity displayed throughout this movie is so far out of bounds it stretches credulity. It is sad our out of touch, sick, Hollywood directors and producers think this sort of garbage has any value, any use to further advance or amuse a reasonable decent person in any category. It insults the sense of dignity and humor of all but the most scummy type of person, the ones who can't visualize anything without crudity, who probably can't say a three word sentence without three vulgar words. A reasonable, decent person is getting hard to find judging by the number of people who rated this cesspool above a one scale. To see Renee Zellweger doing this doesn't say much for her either. Carrey leans toward this type of crap, can't ignore his glee in stuff like this. How desperate can an actor be... washing dishes is honorable, starring in trash like this is not. Too bad it can't be rated zero.

Carrey has reunited with the Farrely brothers in a film, with a more misfire of laughs than successful ones, though still it's adequately funny, the setting of story, that being in Rhode Island, is interesting. Carrey plays a Rhode Island state trooper who has been the butt of a lot of people, that walk all over him. A yes man. Finally cracking up in a supermarket, while waiting at a counter, he creates a new, "take no s..t" character Hank, the absolute opposite of his character, Charlie Bailey. In split personality, this is what can happen, a person is so revolted by his own self, he replaces it with someone totally different. Renee Zewellger, as an EPA employee, who we kind of get the feeling, she would rather be somewhere else, plays an ex girlfriend of a guy involved in corrupt dealings with the company, where she's caught and transported by Carrey on police motorcycle to a safer place, pursued by the bad guys, that involve other corrupt agents etc. The movie does play well as an adventure though, and Carrey's three black blasphemous sons (there's a story there) are a hoot, probably the funniest thing in the movie. Too, near the end in a fight to the death between Carrey and Zewellger's ex, we have an ugly bit of violence, unwarranted, only if in another attempt to humour, when Carrey's thumb is blown off. The theme song was another good thing about this average humorous movie that still plays in my head and takes me to 2001. Farrely fans should still see this, with laughs, far and few between. Carrey does make a goose of himself and overacts in this though, where the every changing back of personalities in scenes, is something you just don't buy.