The Reel Rejects - ME, MYSELF, & IRENE (2000) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

Episode Date: July 13, 2024

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Ah! Okay. I'm excited about that. I knew nothing coming in. I don't really tend to look up anything before movies. I love me some Jim Carrey. I love it so much. Classic 90s, Jim Carrey. You ready? I'm born ready, baby. Let's do it. Okay, we just got done watching me, myself, and Irene. If you're listening on Apple or Spotify, give us a five-star rating.

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Okay, so yeah, I mean, I, do you want to get into your thoughts first? How are we feeling? I feel like, yeah, tell us, just right off the bat. Like, how did you feel about this movie? This is the trail mix of Jim Carrey movies. Yeah, agreed. This is the ultimate mixed bag for me. I feel like the first act is probably the funniest.

And then it had like sprinkles of comedy that worked for me, but largely fell flat. Agreed. But I think that some scenes between Jim Carrey and Renner, Renee Zellwiger really brought some of those things to life. You know, I think Jim Carrey really excelled in his physical comedy in this movie or his ability to put his physicality on display because he was just so in it. And I like how distinct between Charlie and Hank and how those two characters kind of interplayed. And like we got to see a lot of the concept on display.

Also, probably the most well-titled movie I've seen with me. And clever, you know, like me and myself and Irene, so I thought that was cool. But yeah, I just feel it was okay, you know, and I feel like, you know, I've gotten crap in the comments before. We're like, oh, if you really love the movie, why are you guys laughing the whole time? And I feel like, you know, like, there'll probably be some stints in this movie. We're just kind of looking at it. Yeah. We're just kind of just taking it in.

Yep. And, you know what, that's okay. I saw a video recently, and I'll let you. give your thoughts you know like certain pieces of comedy i guess are geared towards you know not not all comedy is universal you know it's a very subjective experience so and certain comedies are geared towards certain audiences if you like say you are a comedian that tells a lot of jokes about you know like airplanes you know i feel like that would really hit for a audience of people that are familiar with that but if you go somewhere just like a random

and bar that's probably not going to hit and i feel like right this sort of humor this farley's brother is definitely geared towards people of the 90s it's very much of its time yeah and i feel like just because of cultural experiences maybe our our own personal histories or where we live or just a number of of factors kind of played into oh this is like not exactly funny and like oh i'm like a little i'm kind of cringing at this part so you know it's I'm sure this is, some people will still get a lot out of this and just be dying from start to finish. Right.

But yeah, that was just not my experience, Tara. Yeah, I mean, we've just learned so much societally about, like, humor and writing and, like, what can we say and maybe not say? And I do agree that a lot of people are going to be like, we've gone way too PC. There should be some things that are not off the table. And I agree when, especially, like, with comedians, like, if you guys have watched the, what's his nuts, uh, Kevin Hart was the host. Tom Brady roast.

The Tom Brady roast, a lot of those comedians, they sort of went through. They said stuff that like maybe we would say in the 90s and this is a 20-24 thing. That it's like some, I get it that comedians, I think that they should be able to kind of explore on their own and this is a comedic movie. But there was a lot of outdated stuff

and outdated references. I don't like that they made like Renele Zew. She's like, I'm just a dits. And I'm like, I don't like that. But what I did like is they did switch it like she did save the day she had some some punk to her like when she beat him she just started running um i wish that they would have stuck with the storyline that she actually did have a master's and that she wasn't like a dits who failed at acting and like whatever that's fine i get it um i think

my most favorite part about this movie there was some some obvious comedy in here where we were laughing and that it was enjoyable um but i think my most favorite part is jim kerry and i said it during, if you just cut out the parts where Jim Carrey is just doing his physical comedy and he's going back between Charlie and Hank, sign me up. I'll watch that 10 minute clip probably over and over because just to, I don't know, learn. I'm like, how does he even like that would, he's, he does, it's like if someone's really good at clowning, he's great in that, obviously. I super appreciate how in depth they went with, especially towards the end, we spoke about that with the stunts and how much they showed us. Like with the car move, that was.

was a very cool shot. It looked like they legit threw the car off the cliff. Yeah. And I really liked just the stunts in general. Like Jim Carrey looked like he did a lot, especially when he flew back behind that fence. I was like, all right, Jim Carrey. And then, you know, the car

hits in some people. Okay, we got a... Temperature is 63 degrees. Pop's thumb should be all right if we find it within the next six hours. After credit scene, wow. Are you sure about that? Do the math, motherfucker. Damn. What are they looking for? Oh, the thumb. I'm looking for a spot.

Oh, yeah. Oh, gross. There it is. Hey, I think I found it. What? Oh. Oh. Get that fish.

Roll some hard. Oh, damn, what? Okay. He could have just said it's the fish, and then I'm like, oh, they cut to, like, well, I wouldn't have wanted to see it, but they cut to open it up the fish to get the thumb. I don't know. Look, I, I, I, I, this is not a movie that I would rewatch. I didn't like love it, but I do, I do adore Jim Carrey. I respect him so much. I still respect a lot of things about this movie. Like I said, the stunts. And also just to, if, if you ever want to write a comedic movie that's like very, it's weird. Like we talked about that the soundtrack was odd and very 90s. I'm like, this is what the 90s kind of, I feel like was. Is a lot of these, the same types of jokes. And, you would write it with Jim Carrey in mind because I don't think that anyone else

in the 90s as an actor could have done this justice. I think that the way Jim Carrey's physical comedy, I think it saved a lot of this movie and him switching back and forth is just Bravo. My most favorite scene was them in the bed when they were both just real people. Yeah, the genuine scene.

And I was like, thank goodness that there's not like these jokes that I'm not laughing at right now. I wanted to just take a second and see two people bond and kind of come together. And that was my favorite moment. And I could really feel their chemistry there. I enjoyed that.

And there were in other moments when they were at the train scene and they were kind of talking it through. But it was like, it was still thrown in there with jokes of like, you put it up your own ass. And we're like, okay, get it. Can we get away from like the dildo talk for a second? Because I really enjoyed it when it was just real. And she was trying to say that I really, I like Charlie.

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And I also like the idea on paper of the premise of this guy who went through this traumatic experience that had to force himself to create another identity to deal with, the fact that he doesn't know how to process his emotions. And I think that conceptually is very interesting. And then like meeting this girl and like maybe having this, their connection and like kind of exploring through that. I think all that is great because I'm just someone who just love psychology. I just think the execution of it wasn't my favorite. Keep talking of looking up trivia.

Yeah. The execution of it wasn't my favorite. Some of the writing wasn't my favorite. And it's funny because I can get behind like cruise. or mean humor but like mean humor that doesn't land is like the worst and I'm like oh that's just kind of sucks I absolutely agree with that and I'm like uh I guess sure they pushed it a little far in this one it pushed a little far sometimes but I feel like it's only felt like it was pushed really far because it doesn't land and I feel like it wasn't done in a way that was necessarily the most clever

and I think I'm a fan of clever humor uh in addition to crude humor like I'm not I'm not like a humor snob or anything. But something else that didn't land for me. It worked in the first act, but not really throughout the movie, was the brothers. Yeah. Yeah, and it's just, I don't know. I think when you try to write stereotypical black dudes that aren't written by black people just feels like kind of weird to me, it just didn't work for me.

And I just, I like Anthony Anderson, and I like, I've seen those other two guys and stuff before, but a lot of their stuff was just kind of really fell flat for me. And just like, you know, like, okay, like, we got to give them, like, the gold tooth and, like, we got to do things that are, like, more stereotypical because, like, oh, that's funny, you know, but it just did not do it for me. Yeah. But I don't think that was weird. And you said this is probably a product of the 90s, the fact that they had, like, these 90s songs with this weird-ass score. It was odd. I was like.

I was like. And it was weird. Because sometimes it was, like, groovy and vibey. And other times it was just, like, more, like, up. beat and I'm like, what are we doing here? What is, what is like the thematic through line of the score here? There was a, coupled with the soundtrack, I was like. The only thematic choices that they made was to choose to play a love song that had

lyrics of like, I love you or I'm thinking about liking you when we would see Renee Zellweger's character sort of looking at Charlie or Hank. Yeah. In those subtle moments, they would play like kind of a love upbeat song. Other than that. I don't know. Yeah. Right.

It's kind of random. Yeah, I absolutely agree. And we were like, all right, we're viving. But I think, like, maybe the music supervisor just thought, like, we need this to keep people interested. Because there was a time when the Dickie, the mullet guy had Renee, and it was in one song. He made it down the trail. He shoots open the fence, and it changed to a completely different song. I get it that now we're like, now we're really running, go on this bridge, change the song.

It just felt like a lot. and I don't think there was a theme to it. I think they were like, let's just try and keep it fun. Yeah. Like very poppy, very like, let's just put in all these songs that people might know

to keep them engaged. Yeah. I guess. Yeah. If I'm going to watch a movie where Jim Carrey has a blonde love interest and the split personality, I'm going to go with the mask over this movie.

Absolutely. Oh, my God. Those are in two different leagues. Yes, I absolutely agree with you different league movies. Entirely different leads. Entirely 110%. I've got some fun trivia for you guys.

The stunt where Jim Carrey throws himself out of the car was done only in one take. Oh, wow. Okay, let's see. Oh, God. In the Hank feeds off Milf on bench scene, Jim Carrey unknowingly latched on to Shannon Worley's right nipple. He thought she was wearing a prop,

first until he tasted the milk from her boobs. Carrie explains, it's very rare that I get to a place where I'm actually kind of humiliated, but that was one of them. It was so embarrassing to me. I was like embarrassed for the girl, but she was fine with it. She was like, yeah, whatever. But I was literally apologizing to her between every take. When it was time to film it, I had to empty the studio.

I couldn't do it in front of anybody. This is surprisingly ironic because Carrie had other times and openly admit his love for big prested women while worry had no qualms about topless scenes and wet nursing stunts because ever since one year after the film script was completed she had been playing in over a dozen erotic films in her acting career what oh okay all right so all right she got all right girl make that money good on her make that money yeah um okay this one's like I'm I'm like, really? The glasses that Michael Bowman, who played Whitey, wears are his real-life glasses,

including the little microscope. Damn. What? That's wild. That is insane. Super sight. Yeah, right? The glasses on.

Right? I'm like, okay. Jim Carrey ad-libbed the moment where he asks his sons to kiss him before he leaves. He also ad-libbed pushing the car off the cliff. He says, on nine and counts to nine very fast. It was totally ad-libbed. moment you can catch that. Renee Zellwiger is surprised in the clip. I didn't catch that, but I did love that. I was like, oh, nine, that's pretty funny. Let's see if I can find one more.

The scene where Rennel Zell Wager kicks Jim Carrey over, it was done by Jim Carrey instead of a stunt man after many pleadings. So he really, really wanted to do it. He did a few takes, but they used the first one and a mattress was used for him to plot back on, obviously. Um, okay, let me see if maybe I can get to like, I mean, these seem all like pretty much spoilers. Um, let me see if I can get one more for you guys. Uh, but da, but da, but da, okay, here's one about a song. I haven't read all of it, but let's see. In the scene where Charlie kisses Irene, she says to, he says to her, my ass is sore. The song that is playing is deep inside of you.

Yeah. There we go. I caught that. By third eye blind. Coincidentally, the lyrics you can hear after. Charlie says this, clearly say echoes deep inside of you, which is pretty good explanation for why Charlie has a sore ass. Got it. So, yeah, they use the songs as like, that's what I meant of, like, I feel like they used the love songs when we were focusing on Renee and them, where it would be like, I like you or I love you, whatever those songs were. And obviously they were playing probably with lyrics that I didn't catch that.

He did. Bingo. So maybe that has more of an explanation to the soundtrack. Yeah. Right? That maybe the lyrics were trying to feed in. more to the story, but we still felt it was a little chaotic with those choices. It was a little all over the place.

Yeah. I can agree with that. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, I liked it. I had fun, but it's not anything I would watch again. I think there was just too many, like, cringy things for me, and I wasn't in love with the writing. The writing didn't make me go like, ha, ha, ha, that is so funny.

I just was kind of like, I get it. That's a joke, but it's not making me laugh, which is okay. I think my, funny enough, my favorite part of the movie was the beginning where him and his ex-wife are going into the house and then the guy who ends up getting with his wife, like beats him with nunchucks because it implies that he has numtucks because this is the first time he's done this. Yeah. And it's just like a repeated thing to the point where he just like beats people up.

So I thought that was, that whole bit was really funny. But the rest of the movie, you know, it had parts for me, but overall just did not. It didn't work. but that's okay. I'm sure I'm sure you guys enjoyed it and grow up with this movie as a classic. So, you know, enjoy that and enjoy the parts where we can laugh together.

Yeah, because we love laughing with you. We love you guys a bunch, whether we like the movie or not. We still love you and we hope that you love us. So thank you for watching and we will see you guys on the next one. Bye.