Me, Myself, and Irene

Human Events, Jul 7, 2000

ME, MYSELF AND IRENE

RATING: R

STARRING: Jim Carrey, Renee Zellweger, Chris Cooper, Joe Sarrasin, Robert Forster, and Richard Jenkins

DIRECTORS: Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly

DISTRIBUTOR: 20th Century Fox

GENRE: Comedy

INTENDED AUDIENCE Teenagers and adults

SUMMARY: Me, Myself & Irene, stars Jim Carrey as Charlie, a polite highway patrolman who reacts to the affronts of others by developing a violent, suppressed, second personality. On the one hand, he is Charlie the do-gooder, and, on the other, he is Hank, the violent, sex-crazed lunatic. The plot revolves around these troubled personalities and their interactions with Irene, who is trying to escape an environmental offender bent on destroying her.

The Farrelly brothers have previously noted that they get a kick out of taking nice stories and nice characters and hanging as much fiflh on them as possible. This is no exception. Me, Myself & Irene is chock full of foul language, vulgar behavior, sodomy gags, racist jokes, sex toys and many other immoral elements.

CONTENT: Extremely pagan worldview with a few cynical nods to morality and a prayer/confession scene played for laughs; 147 obscenities, 22 profanities, numerous oral sex jokes, dog defecates on lawn, vaginal jokes, dildo jokes, sodomy jokes, homosexual jokes, breast jokes, man breast-feeds off of well-endowed woman, man defecates on lawn; and man spits mucus on himsef; man shoots cow repeatedly, man shoots EPA officials, woman breaks man's nose, man beats himself repeatedly, man confronts little boy, man shoots off other man's thumb with splattering blood, several beatings played for laughs, young man talks about hacking up his family, and chicken head shown shoved up man's buttocks; implied masturbation, man urinates all over bathroom, adultery, implied sodomy and implied fornication; rear male nudity and upper female nudity, alcohol use; drug use; and, lying, cheating and stealing.

Quality: * * * Acceptability: -4