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Me Myself I Review: Pip Karmel's modestly inspired piece of romantic-comedy fluff merits a viewing almost solely on the virtues of the wry, acerbic Rachel Griffiths, who proves here that she can carry a warm leading role as well as she commands attention from the sidelines of more serious fare. Karmel's script requires the audience to buy into the age-old cliché that a single, professional, thirty-something woman will be near-suicidal without a man by her side, but after that, it's Griffiths' movie, and she manages to bring a fresh, independent slant to the usual rhythms of the female-empowerment comedy. Me Myself I doesn't shy away from the messier aspects of its central conceit: Griffiths' alter-ego character's children are in on her metaphysical switch in personality; and her struggles with alternate forms of birth control are the sort of hilariously vulgar details a Hollywood production would have left on the cutting room floor. Though Karmel stacks the deck in the film's last act -- favoring one lifestyle over another -- she at least avoids the dim, simpering homilies of such lesser fare as Sliding Doors (1998) or The Family Man (2000). Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide

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