Really Surprised!

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

It is hard to believe a film as sick and trashy as this could have any admirers, but on the other hand, one person labeling those who would like it as "right wingers" is in itself an indicator of a pretty loony tunes view. And another reviewer thinks "gun nuts" would find shooting a poor cow six times in the head was funny! Are you insane?? I am a gun person and I was sickened by such a thing being humorous to a Hollywood moron. Some reviewers are more on the fringe than the actors who took the roles in this movie. This supposed comedy movie pushes beyond any limit in foul language, mostly applied to black characters, it has Carrey in his usual over-the -top trashy characterizations, the man simply goes way, way too far, every time, unfortunately in this movie there are too many opportunities for him to do so. The crudity and vulgarity displayed throughout this movie is so far out of bounds it stretches credulity. It is sad our out of touch, sick, Hollywood directors and producers think this sort of garbage has any value, any use to further advance or amuse a reasonable decent person in any category. It insults the sense of dignity and humor of all but the most scummy type of person, the ones who can't visualize anything without crudity, who probably can't say a three word sentence without three vulgar words. A reasonable, decent person is getting hard to find judging by the number of people who rated this cesspool above a one scale. To see Renee Zellweger doing this doesn't say much for her either. Carrey leans toward this type of crap, can't ignore his glee in stuff like this. How desperate can an actor be... washing dishes is honorable, starring in trash like this is not. Too bad it can't be rated zero.

The story gets very much predictable as soon as you read the title and sees Jim Carey at the cast list. It will all be about a split personality on a man. The movie did well enough in taking its time to build on the background story of how Charlie unknowingly created Hank. But that's just about it. Besides Jim Carey's awesome performance, there's little more that this movie has to offer. Renee Zellweger did just enough for her parts. The story gets flawed as many of the scenes didn't have adequate transition and instead edited poorly that scene cuts feel strange. Chris Cooper and Richard Jenkins also didn't create believable characters since their screen time is often too brief.

Charlie is a Rhode Island state trooper with a split personality. He is otherwise mild- mannered and non confrontational until somebody or something pushes him a little too far. That's when his maniacal alter-ego Hank takes over. Charlie is assigned on a routine mission to return alleged fugitive Irene back to upstate New York, but they wind up on the run from corrupt police officers. And their escape would be a lot simpler on everybody involved if Hank didn't keep stepping in at the most inopportune times....The kings of bad taste are back with another inane comedy, poking fun at ethnicity, disability, and mental health problems, all for the pleasure of you, the viewer.The Farelly Brothers have had one of the luckiest careers in Hollywood, because with a lot of hindsight, they only really made one decent film, Dumb And Dumber, and I believe it was only successful because Jim Carrey became the biggest comedy star in Hollywood at the time, and it didn't hurt that his face was plastered everywhere.So they try to recreate the pseudo magic of their initial movie and fail, miserably. And it's because they don't listen to the cardinal rule, less is more.So they lay on the smut, racism, misogyny, and innuendo as thick as they can, and instead of raising smiles, it raises eyebrows in the fact that this was a tent pole release in the summer of 2000.Carrey gurns and gurns as if his life depended on it, Zellweger looks bemused throughout, and the rest of the. Farrelly regulars do the same thing that they do in every one of their movies, do random things because it seems to be funny.It's a shame that people with real life disabilities, whom appear in these 'films', whether they suffer from spina-bifida, or albinism, don't realise that they appear in these movies to be mocked by the moronic fans of this sort of unfunny trash.There are good comedies out there, but they are few and far between. It's about time we turned our backs on so called comedies trying to push the taste boundaries to give us all a laugh.This didn't. It offended me, and no doubt, several others.

This IS a funny movie. If a movie can make me laugh out loud, cringe at the character's embarrassment and still maintain my interest from start to end, then IMO, it has achieved its purpose as a comedy. Every time I have seen this film, it never fails to make me laugh. It's not supposed to be the most clever comedy nor does it try to be. The humour is crude and at times nasty, but the outrageous style in which it is executed makes it funny and I'm a fan. Although I'm not the biggest Jim Carey fan, I can still appreciate that he is talented and rather unique in his style and I can't imagine anyone else doing a better job in the lead role.