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Me, Myself and Irene. Cert 15

Having seen other Jim Carrey films, such as the Mask, Ace Ventura and the Cable guy, I was quite looking forward to watching this movie. O.K, I know it made some controversial headlines when it came out over the topic of Schizoprenia and the way it dealt with the illness, but I thought I'd give it the benefit of the doubt and reserve
judgement.
I wish I hadn't. Charlie Bailey-Gates,  played by Carrey, is a policeman who eighteen years previously had been left  with three young children after his wife started an affair with the limo driver on their wedding day. The extra twist is that although the children obviously
aren't his,Charlie will not acknowledge there is anything amiss and because of this he becomes the laughing stock of the town.
At this point you might say, Fine, Here's a wacky scenario which is setting the scene for a hilarious comedy.
Think again. - In its first twenty minutes, the film manages to be prejudiced against race and size and that's before it has even got round to the subject of Schizoprenia.
Anyway, getting back to the unfortunate Charlie, something has got to give... and it does ...in the form of Hank, Charlie's other side, an offensive, violent dude who talks like Clint Eastwood with bad diction. It turns out that after years of  ignoring his problems in life Charlie has split personality schizoprenia.
Into this comes Irene in the form of Renee Zellweger  previously of Jerry  `Show me the money' Mcguire and who's just about to hit our screens as Bridget Jones. Irene is being hounded by an ex boyfriend who thinks she knows too much about his nefarious dealings and as a result, keeps getting her detained by the police on trumped up charges. Because of this, she meets Charlie and as one might expect they are thrown together as they go on the lam to escape the ex boyfriend and the police.
Even at this late stage, I was hoping for one line, one gag or a little visual humour to make me laugh, grin or just smile but no, it was too much to hope for. The comedy, or what I presumed was meant to be the comedy , was either dull or plain offensive, in other words it just wasn't  funny. It`s difficult to figure out why Jim Carrey would
want to put his name to this film as all it  does is insult a lot of people in many different areas.             
I'm sorry to say, I would not recommend this film to anyone and the only happy moment I had with it was when the end credits began to roll.