Me, Myself & Irene (2000) - 68 mistakes

Visible crew/equipment: When the police are leaving the motel, you can see a camera reflection in the S.W.A.T. van as it drives by.

Revealing: When Charlie shoots the cow there is no bloodshed at all, even though the cow is supposed to be alive.

Continuity: The blood comes flowing out of Charlie's hand before he gets his thumb shot off.

Continuity: When Charlie shoots the cow, he had turned off the headlight of the motorcycle. After he shoots the cow the first time, the headlight is back on.

Continuity: Right after Charlie and Irene push the car over the cliff, Charlie asks Irene if she grabbed the wallet off the dash and she says no. Later in the motel, when they are lying in bed, Charlie is sharing family pictures with Irene and they talk about carrying pictures in their wallets. Charlie's was at the bottom of the lake with the car. [The deleted scene on the DVD doesn't really help - in it Hank jumps off the cliff to get his wallet, and then Irene follows. However the movie shows Charlie and Irene looking down the 30 meter high cliff and walking away with dry clothes. Deleted scenes can "disallow" a mistake only if they fill in plausible back story, rather than contradicting the "proper" movie directly.]

Continuity: When Irene and Charlie are in the water near the end, the clouds change between each shot.

Visible crew/equipment: When Charlie and Irene are driving Irene says 'He did save our lives'. After this it goes to Charlie. Here the boom mic can be seen in the top left of the window.

Factual error: In the flashback scene in 1982 when Charlie and Layla are on the picnic blanket, they're drinking Budweisers out of late 1990's bottles that came in a late 1990's six-pack.

Deliberate "mistake": When Layla is having babies and the first one comes out there is already a nappy on the baby.

Continuity: Just as Charlie reaches Dickie and Irene on the bridge, Dickie is looking forward. In the next shot he is looking down and behind him.

Continuity: In the motel scene Charlie gets two cokes. When he returns we see Irene taking off her left shoe twice from different camera angles.

Continuity: When the little girl starts screaming her long hair moves from her back to her front.

Audio problem: When Charlie and Irene are cruising on his motorcycle just after he leaves his meds in the motel room, you can hear the bike shift gears, but you do not see Charlie press the clutch or use the gear shift lever.

Continuity: In the beginning of the movie, when Charlie and Shonté start arguing, Shonté takes his jacket off and throws it to one side. The jacket continually changes sides throughout the scene.

Visible crew/equipment: When Shonte Jr and the boys answer the door to the Colonel, you can see the camera and crew in the reflection of the door.

Continuity: Right near the end of the movie when Irene is saying goodbye to Charlie, her makeup is a lot darker to when she is driving away in the car, it looks a lot lighter and rubbed off. When she is pulled over again by the police and gets out of the car her makeup is once again a lot darker.

Continuity: At the health food restaurant Hank gets annoyed with a slurping kid. At this point his hands change between holding on to his chair to lying on the table.

Continuity: When Charlie tries to get the little girl off the street there are the same two extras walking by in short succession.

Continuity: At the very end when Whitey and the boys are looking for Charley's finger, they are splashing around in a very muddy river, but from the underwater shots the water is quite clear.

Revealing: After Charlie gets his thumb shot off by Dickey near the end, in most of the shots you can easily see that Charlie is bending his thumb behind the rest of his hand instead of computer graphics removing it.

Revealing: When the baby is pulled out of Layla, you can tell that it's not a newborn baby because he is missing his umbilical cord.

Continuity: In the scene where the three Baileygates brother's are in a field with tents etc, helping the police to track down their father, Lee Harvey is wearing a plain grey vest. In alternating shots the vest changes to one with black edging, and then back to plain grey again.

Continuity: When Hank crashes into the barber shop with Dick's car, the angle of the cigarette in the geeser's hand changes from shot to shot.

Character mistake: After Charlie and Irene leave the Rhode Island station for New York, the female officer refers to her boss as Captain, when he is a Colonel.

Continuity: After Charlie's thumb has been shot off he dives into the water to rescue Irene. When he reaches out for her with his left hand the thumb is back in place.

Revealing: When Charlie gets shot inside the station a woman (accompanied by a man with a green hat) can't help laughing.

Continuity: When Charlie compliments Irene on not giving a damn about her hair it gets tucked behind her left ear by itself.

Continuity: In the scene where Irene and Hank are driving along in Gerke's car and Irene is holding the dart in her hand there are some inconsistencies: 1) The right window is sometimes open, sometimes closed. 2) When she is threatening Hank with the dart her hair is sometimes hanging over the dart, sometimes not. 3) Her seatbelt is sometimes on top of her collar, sometimes under it.

Continuity: When Hank goes after the four baseball players the one whom he gets involved with is grabs a beer bottle. The camera cuts to Hank, then back to the four guys, and the beer bottle is gone although the man is leaning against the truck in exactly the same way as before. This happens before he may want to get his hands free to attack Hank.

Continuity: After Charlie tells Irene that he is schizophrenic they hold each other by the hands. When the camera is on him her arms are bent at the elbow, and when the camera is on her her arms are stretched out.

Continuity: In the scene where Charlie lets the woman jump the line his newspaper switches back and forth between his right hand and under his left arm.

Continuity: Charlie's neighbor Ed allows his dog to crap on Charlie's lawn. In wide shots he is holding the leash roll in his right, in close-up in his left hand.

Continuity: Just notice that in the clip at the very, very end of the movie, when Whitey says he thinks he's found the missing thumb, he ducks under without the hose in his mouth. But in the water, it's in. Then when he comes back out, it's out again!

Continuity: After Hank has conned Irene into sleeping with him, the morning after Irene finds the "Coke" machine smashed up. In a later scene the Coke machine is back in perfect condition.

Continuity: The movie starts out in the present and then flashes back. The skinny trees in front of the house are tall in the beginning and in the flashback they are small. They grow a little more every time it's been a few years, but when they come back to the present, the trees are still only half grown in one shot. In the next, they are fully grown.

Visible crew/equipment: After the scene of Hank peeing in the guy's car there is a shot of multiple police cars driving past. At the beginning of this shot, the boom mic's reflection is visible on the road.

Continuity: When Charlie and Irene meet with Gerke, Gerke hides his gun under his arm.He then moves his arm to his side but then in the next shot it's back under his arm.

Continuity: When Boshane and Peterson meet Irene at the police station Peterson's tie is folded below the knot. When the interrogate her right after the fold is gone, but it's back when Peterson gets killed.

Continuity: At the beginning of the movie Charlie and Layla are sitting on the sea side. After he asks her about her readiness to live on whale blubber in case he gets assigned to the arctic their position changes from resting on their hands to resting on their elbows.

Revealing: Near the end of the movie when Irene falls off the bridge and Charlie follows, and when the boy's helicopter comes to save them, it is cloudy then a split second later sunny, then back again throughout the entire scene.

Revealing: When Hank crashes the car through the shop, look at the barber's chair. You can see it's a stunt double for the actor.

Continuity: When we see the policeman with the chicken stuck in his rear end there are more chicken in the background. They disappear a few seconds later.

Continuity: In the scene where Irene and Charlie run after the train there are several discontinuities: 1) The warning cross disappears in the shot where the last car passes. 2) In this shot the last car looks much higher than when Irene jumps on. 3) The sun direction changes.

Visible crew/equipment: When Charlie talks to the little girl with the rope, the mike and two hands holding it are reflected in the helmet.

Continuity: When the guys in the barber shop return to their game of checkers after admiring the well endowed mom the pieces on the board are arranged differently.

Continuity: When Dickie is in Hank's and Irene's train cabin, Irene hits him over the head and he lands on top of Hank. You can see his head is behind Hanks shoulder, but when Hank wakes up Dicky's head is next to Hanks.

Factual error: Much of this movie was filmed in the Burlington and Middlebury areas in Vermont. Therefore, there are a lot of inconsistencies with vehicle plates and identifying characteristics of things like particular state trooper uniforms/cars/etc. And yes, the abandoned bridge/railroad trestle/etc. is actually the pedestrian bridge over the Otter Creek in downtown Middlebury.

Factual error: After Jim Carrey has his first "episode", the police car pulls up to the officer in charge, and it has blue lights on both sides. In Rhode Island, all police cars must have red lights only.

Continuity: When Charlie/Hank and Irene arrive at the train station in Rhode Island.  Charlie and Hank are having a "fight", during this fight Hank unzips his pants to wiggle his "thing" at a group of ladies sitting on a bench.  Immediately after that he falls to the ground and his pants are zipped.

Continuity: When Charlie is taking Irene back to New York on his motorcycle they come across a supposed dead cow in the middle of the road, which by the way you could totally tell is fake.  Charlie pulls out his gun and shoots the cow a few times then throws his gun off to his right way off the screen.  Next screen shot the gun is right next to him.

Continuity: This happens a lot in the movie but specifically... When Charlie is shooting the cow, the wide shots with the bike are really sunny, but in the close ups (fingers in the nose) it is overcast or studio lighting.

Visible crew/equipment: When Charlie starts beating the mirror on the train you can see the boom mic on the right of the reflection.

Continuity: When Hank/Charlie fights himself on the platform the station clock shows 3:50 while Charlie's watch shows 5:55 when he throttles himself.

Continuity: During the outside motel scene, there is a maroon car parked outside.  It changes between a Ford Escort and a Dodge Intrepid.

Revealing: When Irene trips by the cliff she just kicks the floor and twists her ankle.

Audio problem: This may be in the TV version due to language censoring, but in one of the helicopter scenes, you can tell that the sound of the helicopter is only a clip about a second long that is being played over and over.

Continuity: When Irene goes to leave the diner after Hank's jokes, his cigarette switches from his left hand, to his right, to his left again.

Continuity: When Hank/Charlie fall into the car near the end his feet are inside the car. When the shot changes his feet are on the outside.

Continuity: Irene's hair moves back and forth between behind and in front of her right shoulder in the scene where she tells the police officer about her accident. It undergoes further changes when she talks to Dickie on the phone.

Visible crew/equipment: At the end of the introduction with the cruising Charlie there is a crew reflection in the windbreaker.

Factual error: The police are informed that Charlie and Irene are 100 miles away. As they board a police helicopter one of the cops tells them they can be there in 15 minutes tops. This means that the helicopter will be traveling at 400 mph. Police helicopters max out at about 130 mph.

Continuity: In the scene where both Jim's characters are beating each other at the wheel of this red convertible, bad Jim throws good Jim out of the car which was doing some 30/40 mph in a straight line. In the next shot Jim is seen chasing the car on foot: the convertible is now doing no more than 7/10 mph and it's descending a hill after a sharp right-hand corner.

Continuity: In the scene where Hank comes crashing into the building with Dick's car, the driver's side headlight is intact. They show the people in the building, and when the shot returns to the car, the headlight is dangling from its socket.

Continuity: In the scene where Charlie shoots the cow, no flame or smoke is seen coming from the gun in some shots, but all the others show flames and/or smoke.

Other: When the cow is seen on the road, note the black and white patterning on its hide. At the end, when you see the cow in a neck brace, it has different patterning.

Continuity: In the scene where Charlie is being chased through the train station and gets shot in the arm look out for a boy in the train station with a green top because immediately after he exits the station the boy is sitting on a bench outside.

Character mistake: Throughout the movie, Carrey's Commanding Officer, who is a Colonel, is called Captain.

Plot hole: How on earth is it possible for the three of those babies to fit inside that woman, especially for the size they were when they came out?