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Title: Spare Me The Kaufman-esque Jokes
Review: Coming off the two finest performances of his career in The Truman Show and Man on the Moon, Jim Carrey seems intent on wasting his incredible dramatic talents on this tripe. In what seems like a Kaufman-esque joke on his audience Carrey reverts back to his Ace Ventura form as a split personality, so misrepresented, so misdiagnosed that I wonder if the writers bothered to pick up a medical book in researching this. The physical comedy begins as passive state trooper Charlie transforms into an agressive ultra-ego, Hank. Don't get me wrong, this leads to a few good laughs but the movie gets bogged down about a half hour in as Charlie sets out to return a pretty young thing (Zellweger) to face trumped up hit-and-run charges made by her ex-boyfriend to get her back. Think There's Something About Mary minus it's eduring characters and you've got a farce barely worth your time on cable television.
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