Me, Myself & Irene - R

The Farrellys strike again; avoid this awful film.

Rating: R for sexual content, crude humor, strong language and some violence Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Directed By: Bobby Farrelly Cast: Jim Carrey, Renee Zellweger Running Time: 116 minutes Release Date: 06/23/2000 Genre: Comedy

Common Sense Note

Blacks, dwarfs, an albino, and a nursing mother are all vehicles for crass jokes. Many mature themes: Infidelity, divorce, police corruption, murder, and a serious bipolar disorder. Near-constant spewings of extreme, gratuitous profanity, much of it sex-related. Even a skip-roping little girl screams "f- off." Just about every character in every scene behaves questionably. Graphic discussions about sex, with much waving around of a sex toy. A few nude rears (one with a chicken sticking out of it) and a mostly nude breast. A lot of punching and shooting. Hank insults and terrorizes people, causes bodily harm, and destroys property. Charlie repeatedly shoots a cow that appears near dead. Irene's ex-boyfriend shoots Charlie's thumb.

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Common Sense Review

Reviewed By: Scott G. Mignola

Purveyors of crass gags and toilet humor have no trouble attracting moviegoers, especially when Jim Carrey's delivering the laughs. But co-directors and writers Bobby and Peter Farrelly suggest with their follow-up to the successful There's Something About Mary that they may well have hit a brick wall. Mary offered likable oddball characters and even a bit of dramatic tension amidst its outrageous laughs. In comparison, ME, MYSELF & IRENE resembles an Airplane-like parody of a Farrelly brothers movie.

Rather than veer from their established romantic comedy formula, they've recycled elements of their own earlier movies--most notably Dumb and Dumber, which also starred Carrey--and turn the vulgarity and the political incorrectness up to damaging proportions. Carrey gives the elastic performance one expects from him, but seeing him hold a little girl's head underwater and squat, pants down, on a neighbor's lawn, elicits far more groans than laughs.

The production looks like it was made several years ago, then improperly stored until a willing distributor could be found. Amidst the washed-out cinematography, the bodily waste humor, and the free-flowing obscenity, Renée Zellweger--who ably starred alongside Meryl Streep and William Hurt in One True Thing--is saddeningly out of place.

A seventeen-year-old Steve Martin fan who saw similarities in this movie to The Jerk and All of Me found it unnecessarily crude and mean-spirited, but got her money's worth of laughs out of it. See at your own risk.

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Content		CS	adults	kids
Content
Sexual Content Graphic discussions about sex, with much waving around of a sex toy. A few nude rears (one with a chicken sticking out of it) and a mostly nude breast.
Violence A lot of punching and shooting. Hank insults and terrorizes people, causes bodily harm, and destroys property. Charlie repeatedly shoots a cow that appears near dead. Irene's ex-boyfriend shoots Charlie's thumb off.
Language Near-constant spewings of extreme, gratuitous profanity, much of it sex-related. Even a skip-roping little girl screams
Message
	Social Behavior Blacks, dwarfs, an albino, and a nursing mother are all vehicles for crass jokes. Countless offensive gags and jokes.
	Commercialism
	Drug/Alcohol/Tobacco Some alcohol consumption.