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ME, MYSELF & IRENE - REVIEW

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Back in 2000, Jim Carrey reunited with the Farrelly Brothers to work on post- Dumb & Dumber comedy Me, Myself & Irene , a movie which certainly made the most of Carrey's Jerry Lewis-esque rubber-faced antics. Carrey stars as mild-mannered Rhode Island cop Charlie, whose wife leaves him unexpectedly to raise the three children she had with a short genius limo driver by himself. Charlie is way too nice for his own good, bottling up all his anger and other, darker emotions deep inside as the whole town steps on him daily, from old-timers to even little girls. This is until, one day, Charlie loses it and develops another personality, Hank, who takes over every so often, bringing out an infinitely more mean-spirited side of his personality. He starts taking medication to contain Hank but while he's giving Renee Zelwegger's incidental outlaw Irene a ride to another town, he forgets his pills as it turns out that Irene is in the middle of a rather dodgy plot. Unfortun