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Release Date: Jun 23, 2000; Rated: R; Length: 116 Minutes; Genres: Comedy, Romance; With: Jim Carrey and Renee Zellweger
B-
By Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

Jim Carrey plays both sides of a Rhode Island state trooper with two personalities, one of which is pathologically mild-mannered, the other pathologically aggressive, both of which hanker for the same plucky woman (Renee Zellweger). When it's funny, this gleeful festival of gross- outs from the Farrelly brothers is lurchingly liberating, but too often it idles as a slow-moving, gauzy-focus romance. Best relationship: that between the cop and his hulking, trash-talking, affectionate, brainiac, black triplet sons. B-


Posted Jul 14, 2000
 

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