Herald rating: * *
Running time: 116 mins
Rental: Today
Review: Ewan McDonald
If you liked Dumb And Dumber, giggled at Kingpin, still have There's Something About Mary on your top-10 films of all time ... Me, Myself & Irene is for you. Peter and Bobby Farrelly hire Jim Carrey to make that same movie with the same jokes.
Carrey plays Charlie, a Rhode Island state trooper who puts up with shocking insults to his manhood and uniform but manages to stay a nice guy, even after his wife presents him with three black babies, fathered by a dwarf limo driver and Mensa member, then runs off with the little guy, leaving Charlie to look after three hulking geniuses.
One day, he cracks and the evil side of his personality — Hank — breaks out.
He hooks up with Irene (Renee Zellweger) and they become fugitives from the law, running from the evil Lieutenant Gerke (Chris Cooper) to a soundtrack of toilet jokes.
Since I'm borrowing good lines from other people's reviews this week, try this one about the Farrelly brothers: "This time they go for broke, and get there."
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