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Since Liar Liar, Jim Carrey has made a career movie that refocused his genre of choice to comedic dramas. While both Man on the Moon and The Truman Show proved that Carrey had acting chops, they weren't hysterically funny like most of his earlier films. Me, Myself, & Irene was Carrey's chance to link back up with the directors who did Dumb & Dumber and do more slapstick humor again. Jim Carrey plays a cop in Rhode Island who is surprised to learn that his three children are black. Restraining his emotions, Carrey becomes like he was at the beginning of The Truman Show-all fake and happy all of the time. Troubles emerge when his evil side breaks loose and causes chaos. While this Jekyl-Hyde plot is OK, it really doesn't lend itself towards a comedy. A better horror film could be made about a guy who kills people while his goody-two-shoes personality is oblivious. Come to think of it, that has been done a lot of times. You think Carrey could not possibly be anything except funny, but unfortunately he pulls a Cable Guy here. The first fifteen minutes are promising, leading you to expect a laugh-fest along the lines of Dumb and Dumber. From there, the jokes go downhill until the very end of the movie. Jim Carrey does a decent job acting here and uses his physical comedy to good use, but many of the jokes aren't funny. The directors have struck out once before with Kingpin and while I can't blame them for putting out a clunker now and then, you think they wouldn't screw around with the $20 million man, Jim Carrey. Me, Myself, & Irene is barely worth a rental, if only for the promising talent of the actors that play the role of Carrey's African-American children. I give Me, Myself, & Irene ** out of ****. |