I really really wanted to like this movie more than I did. I had followed its production for a while and had lots of good things about it. It was presented as a Catch Me If You Can with Jim Carrey playing a crazy gay southern con man. The good: I Love You Phillip Morris contains many funny moments and a very good performance from Jim Carrey. Carrey is good when he takes risk, (The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Man on the Moon are all good examples) and pretty annoyingly bad when he sticks to his shtick (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Yes Man, Me Myself and Irene and many others). So when I heard he was playing the main character in this comedy based on a true story about a gay conman who falls in love with a fellow prisoner and does whatever he can to be with him I was intrigued.
Jim Carrey is very funny (even if he doesn’t have the best southern accent) and Ewan Mcgregor is equally entertaining as the object of Carrey’s affection.
The bad: This movie could have been much shorter. It felt like the filmmakers were to in love with their material and did not know when to make tough cuts. I found myself multiple times looking at the timer on the Bluray player wondering how it had only been on 30 minutes, 35 minutes, 45 minutes, etc… If the movie was a little more focused and not as intent on including every step of this guys journey it would have been much more enjoyable.
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