Isn't there some saying about avoiding all movies that have a part in them called `jailbait?' Or is it that you should avoid casting jailbait on the basis of their parts? Well, either way, when you have a movie like Me, Myself, and I, which starts out by yelling `cocksucker' at the audience and follows this up with a sequence where we learn of Buddy Arnett (George Segal 's) obsession with laying Lolitas, and then we are lead to believe that this is supposed to be a comedy, we know that this is probably not going to end up very funny.
And, like just about everything else in this incredibly predictable rant, Me, Myself, and I performs exactly as you would expect it to.
Me, Myself, and I follows Crazy Diane/Sane Diane (Jobeth Williams), a psychotic who believes that numbers are chasing her until she seduces her next door neighbor, Buddy. Life is honky dory for a while, and we see a lot of Sane Diane and then Buddy has to deal with his estranged wife, Jailbait, and other pains of living. All of which makes for a cheesy melodrama with a bit of multiple-personality disorder put in.
The performances are admittedly enjoyable, but the film's pacing is so slow, it's style so off-Broadway that I feel more like I'm watching What Happened Was… devoid of intellect. Save me the trouble.
A few moments of humor are interspersed with a weak narrative, good performers given bad material, and all of the other paradoxes that make a movie so midlist that it will be marked off of my list, and should never find its way onto yours.
RATING: **1/2
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pablo Ferro Producer: Pable Ferro Starring: Jobeth Williams, George Segal, Don Calfa, Shelly Hack, Betsy Lynn George
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