ME, MYSELF AND IRENE review
Published at: March 22, 2000, 4:09 a.m. CST by headgeek
Folks, I’ve got an untold tale about the last day I
spent at the Moriarty Labs Spa & Resorts.
If you recall, one night Moriarty and I decided to go
to the DGA to watch a pair of episodes of SOUTH
PARK and then listen to the team behind the series
(including Matt & Trey) talk about their experiences
with the television show and their film.
There is no denying that we had some fun. I’m
talking serious fun. For a couple of days we were
happy with how that day went. We had gone out
drinking with Hercules the Strong. We were princes
of Maine and Kings of New England. Except
nowhere in that vicinity.
In this time period Moriarty never once received a
message via his system of pnuematic tubes. It turns
out that Henchman Mongo was using the tubes as a
laundry shoot for his zebra-striped Gs. This, of
course, gummed up the works till an associate of
mine named Tooms was able to stretch down and
clear up the tubes.
There were 215 little message containing devices, and
it turns out that on that very night. The same night
that we saw Matt and Trey... We could have gone to
this cheesy theater in Anaheim to see ME, MYSELF
AND IRENE... The new Farrelly Brothers film
starring Jim Carrey that’ll be coming out this
Summer.
This really pissed me off. I LOVE THEIR WORK. I
remember watching DUMB AND DUMBER and
actually feeling my IQ points drop (it’s why I still use
so many ellipses)... I thought KINGPIN would kill
my father, it nearly did. And THERE’S
SOMETHING ABOUT MARY was just... well, if
you remember my review... I associated with one of
the characters in one of the scenes... Waaaaay too
much.
I have had the script forever, but I don’t read comedy
scripts (it’s just a thing with me). SO I have been
fairly in the dark about this film, and thought at one
time that it was the Siamese Twin film that I had
heard the brothers were doing.
I started tearing up the Moriarty Labs Spa & Resorts
looking for his blasted Time Machine.
Moriarty came in and thought Mongo had eaten too
much Kibbles & Bits and went to neuter him, when I
told him what was up.
He looked at me, and said, “My dear Mister Knowles,
How exactly do you plan to get past security. You’re
bloody enormous?”
I already knew. He took me over to his ‘Flower
Power Bean Bag’ and told me that it was his Time
Machine. The old man then instructed me to touch
the aquamarine flower and the goldenrod flower
patterns. He then fed me 9 banana jelly beans and
said to concentrate on 7a.m. on March 2nd...
Thursday. I did what he said, and suddenly, in the
flash of an eye, the sun was rising and female joggers
in tube tops were jogging on the LCD flat screen
windows in the labs spa & resorts.
Instantly, Moriarty appeared.
I asked him, “Dude, I thought you said that was
painful?”
And just as he went to answer, I had the urge to pee.
The bastard just smiled at me. Passing my sleeping
body on the Georgian Bed, I went into the bathroom
and....
PAIN does not begin to describe it. I pissed out 9
solid banana jelly beans into his LOO. I passed out
twice. Upon recovering, we set out before we
accidently meet ourselves and they decide not to go to
see Matt and Trey.
Moriarty was constantly bitching about how I’d never
get in. I told him... I had a plan.
I called up a fella by the name of Rick Baker. The
truth is.... ahem... Well, Rick is now the AICN
DISGUISE CREATOR. I went to his new secret
studio, and said... Make me Moriarty’s date!
First there was the corset to get my waist size to a 22
inch size. This of course created large breasts and
enormous hips. He permed my hair, vaselined my
chin and put a fake female chin on. And by the time
he was done.... I looked exactly like the dog ugly
chick you’d expect Moriarty to have!
The corset hurt like a sonuvawench, but... You go
through, that which you go through to get a scoop. I
spoke in breathless half sentences. Moriarty was... a
bit too... grabby if ya know what I mean.
We headed off for Anaheim and this piss poor
cineplex hell hole that NRG moved this screening to
(at the last minute) and got in line.
The line stretched on and on and on. And my legs
were going numb from the lack of circulation. But I
made my way to 4th row center. I was supposed to
sign some stupid paper they handed me, but I just
flirted with the NRG dweeb, batted my eyes, pressed
my phone number in his hand, and while he was
gagging, just walked on in. Sometimes it takes a bit
more than a jedi mind trick.
There were the usual introductions and warnings
about the film not being complete. About temp
tracks, some sort of additional footage something or
another. I wasn’t really paying attention because
when I coughed... I broke a rib. I needed out of the
corset.
Moriarty began freaking. “You’ll bring us all done
Knowles... wait for the lights!”
Suddenly the lights went out and I let out a big breath
and popped every strap in my corset. It was like a
morph but grosser. The fella next to me was knocked
unconcious by the wave of blubber that hit him, but
noone else seemed to notice.
Moriarty looked real real nervous.
ME, MYSELF AND IRENE review....
Folks, this is the best film from the Farrellys yet. Is it
funnier than KINGPIN or THERE’S SOMETHING
ABOUT MARY? Well, that’s subjective, but I’d say
it’s right in there. But what I mean by it being their
best film is that the narrative and story are genuinely
wonderful.
It’s very hard to review a comedy, especially a
Farrelly comedy without giving some stuff away, but
I’m going to try to do it.
The Chicken Sex Scene with a tad of bondage is
fantastic. You’ll remember that one for a very long
time, though I can tell you... Right now, this very
second... You’ve got the WRONG image in your
head.
Sorry, getting ahead of myself there.
The film is about a Rhode Island Motorcycle Cop
with a serious bout of schizophrenia. You see, one
side of Carrey (Charlie) is a nice sensitive
non-commital pussy, and the other side of Carrey
(Hank) is this breast-feeding dildo loving aggressive
pansy raunchmeister.
Carrey is not pulling a MASK here... nor is he really
channeling any of his other characters. His
aggressive side is... well, something to behold.
I guess the early seeds of this character would be seen
in Matt Dillon’s Pat Healy character, but... that is just
a starting point. This character will drag your brain
through funny shit so rank that you’ll run home and
exhaust your supply of Q-Tips and Lysol.
However, the best part of the whole film. And what
makes this movie friggin GREAT, is this.... Charlie
(Carrey) has three large Black Men (it is not like
Kaufman on Letterman btw) as his sons.
What’s brilliant about them is that while they are
black and highly influenced by the humor and
language of standup acts like Richard Pryor through
Chris Rock.... They are absolute geniuses.
The humor and chemistry with these guys is priceless.
It’s a GREAT comedy trio. Everything that The Fat
Boys wanted to be, but with a new comedic twist that
just had me howling.
I don’t know anything about these guys, there were no
credits, but man oh man.... They are going to be
hugely popular. 10 to 1, they’ll have either their own
television series (boo!) or film franchise (yes! Yes!
YES!) to play in for the future. They were pure
magic together. Do not separate these guys!
The albino that the fella on COMING
ATTRACTIONS said was Chris Elliot... WAS NOT
CHRIS ELLIOT. He was a real albino. And that’s a
key.
You see, the Farrellys love to bring in unique faces
and characters. Large breasted women, the mentally
disabled, farm animals, albinos, midgets/dwarfs/little
peoples and so on.
They have the good sense to realize that just stuffing
a bunch of used to be funny has-been comedians into
a film and have them stare wide-eyed at a sight gag...
is just plain boring.
However, populating the film in the real world, and
completely throwing out ‘politically correctness’,
playing with sight gags and raunchiness.... talking
about everything from paraplegic love to necrophilia
to... whatever it may be... Well... That’s funny.
At one point in the film, they basically turn the
Albino character into the penguin in THE WRONG
TROUSERS, for all intents and purposes.
Also, when things happen, they don’t pull the punch.
They follow through.
One gag with a gun and a hand was so hardcore that I
nearly screamed like a man, and thus ruining my
disguise.
Renee Zellwegger? She’s adorable and cute and is
very good as the dame in the midst. Her explaining
to Charlie about a sex issue that gets brought up is
friggin hilarious.
This film is riot funny. I missed whole segments of
the film because my eyes were teared up and
squeezed shut from laughter. Shit, the mascara was
even running like a toxic river behind Mr Burns’
power plant.
All I know, is this film is going to play like a mofo all
summer long. This is real damn funny, and hell...
they’re not even finished with it.
But mark my words... Those three black
children/grown men of Jim Carrey’s in this movie...
They are going to be stars!