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Me, Myself, and Irene is not a funny comedy. The Farrelly Brothers, who directed this movie, cannot make a funny movie.
Jim Carrey plays a cop from Rhode Island who gets married at the beginning. Then as he and his new wife come home, the bride falls in love with the limo driver. The limo driver is African-American. The next scene is in the delivery room. The baby is also African-American. Carrey is obviously not the father. Soon, Carrey's wife leaves him and he has to raise three triplets on his own.
This makes Carrey a doormat and nobody respects him. Then one day, Carrey snaps and develops a second personality. Carrey is now an obnoxious, oversexed pervert who talks like Clint Eastwood. Before taking a vacation, a young woman (Renee Zellweger) is brought in on a hit-and-run charge in New York. Carrey has to escort her back to New York to clear the charge. Unfortunately, federal agents believe that Zellweger has information on her old boss and somebody wants her dead. When trouble starts, Zellweger runs back to Carrey for protection.
The movie becomes a road trip of sorts. Unfortunately, Carrey left his medicine on the hotel counter so that we can watch him switch between the two personalities. Zellweger falls in love with the first personality, which is kind, caring, and passionate. And she despises the other, which is constantly asking her for a piece of ass. How a beautiful young woman like Zellweger would fall in love with Carrey in the span of two days, I'll never know.
Carrey's comic talants are basically wasted here except for near the very end when both personalities fight over control for Carrey's body. It doesn't make this movie worth watching though. Instead, we are treated to stupid comedy such as Carrey and Zellweger trying to kill a cow that they found half dead in the road. Or Carrey's three sons who can't say an entire sentence without cursing. The Farrelly Brothers can't do anything comedic without perversed humor and insulting the audience.
p.c.
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