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Say It Isn't So (2001)

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9

Average Rating: 3.1/10
Reviews Counted: 103
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 94

Those that haven't tired from Farrelly brothers' brand of comedy may still find some laughs here. Otherwise, the slow pacing and unimaginative shock gags will start to wear on the viewer.

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Average Rating: 2.5/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 26

Those that haven't tired from Farrelly brothers' brand of comedy may still find some laughs here. Otherwise, the slow pacing and unimaginative shock gags will start to wear on the viewer.

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Average Rating: 2.6/5
User Ratings: 11,664

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Movie Info

Bobby Farrelly and brother Peter Farrelly continue exploring outrageous premises with this comedy directed by their first assistant director J.B. Rogers. In this wacky spin on the boy-meets-girl tale, Gilly Noble (Chris Klein) enters a sexually charged, passionate love affair with girl of his dreams Jo Wingfield (Heather Graham). After a happy time together, they soon realize that they are brother and sister and quickly break it off. Jo begins a new life elsewhere and Gilly is left heartbroken

R, 1 hr. 36 min.

Comedy

Peter Gaulke, Gerry Swallow

Aug 21, 2001

$4.8M

20th Century Fox

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All Critics (107) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (96) | DVD (19)

A cringe-inducing flop.

February 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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This review is written in a state of posttraumatic shock.

March 22, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Globe and Mail
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Minus a shred of Farrelly wit.

April 5, 2001 Comment
Rolling Stone
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The film elicits not the voluptuous discomfort stirred by the boys' best corporeal shenanigans but creeping embarrassment for everyone on screen.

March 27, 2001 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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But it is so. In fact, it's so-so. As in mediocre.

March 23, 2001 Full Review Source: USA Today | Comment
USA Today
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Stroke jokes, prosthesis jokes, jokes about body hair and smells, and jokes involving the private parts of cows can't keep this one afloat.

March 23, 2001 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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A mediocre comedy about incest.

December 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

What we have here is a wannabe-outrageous comedy that flirts with the last taboo but then retreats.

August 18, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

Flat, borderline banal comedy that in theory includes all the ingredients of the Farrelly brothers (who here serve as producers) about the seemingly incestuous relationship between siblings Chris Klein and Heather Graham

December 1, 2006 Comment

The Farrelly brothers, Bobby and Peter, are beginning to make the same mistake that the Zucker brothers (Jerry and David, along with Jim Abrahams) made, which was to split up and take increasingly less responsibility for their films.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

Poor timing and muffed set pieces are compounded by implausibility and inconsequence.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

There are few laughs to be had during the running time of Say It Isn't So...

February 25, 2003 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

This movie sinks or swims on its humor, and frankly, the Farrellys don't appear to have been very good swimming instructors.

February 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Quips Online | Comment
Film Quips Online

Avoid like your life depended on it.

October 30, 2002 Full Review Source: ViewLondon | Comment
ViewLondon

If it were up to me, I would make sure the Farrellys never made another film, or at least that I never had to see another.

October 21, 2002 Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | Comment
San Diego Metropolitan

Credit goes largely to the charm of Ms. Graham and Mr. Klein, both of whom exude a natural, sunny innocence that contrasts starkly with the naughty incest jokes swirling around them.

October 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer | Comment
Cincinnati Enquirer

First-time director J. B. Rogers and new screenwriters Peter Gualke and Jerry Swallow appear determined to include as many gross-out scenes as possible at the expense of telling a believable story.

August 2, 2002 Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | Comment
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

The trash heap of "There's Something About Mary" ripoffs grows a little higher.

June 20, 2002 Full Review | Comment
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

Um festival embaraçoso de caretas e gritaria.

May 31, 2002 Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | Comment
Cinema em Cena

one of the raunchiest, silliest, and, I must admit, stupidest films of the year. Any year.

April 16, 2002 Comment
Movie Metropolis
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Audience Reviews for Say It Isn't So

First of all, I was disappointed that the Farrellys didn't take the director's seat on this one. I hate when previews mislead you like that. Nine times out of ten, when you hear the announcer in a trailer say, "from horror master Wes Craven" or something of that sort, it means the well-known director is a producer or

April 21, 2010
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This movie was really lame. A waste of film is what I like to call these kinds of movies. I only watched it cause it was the only thing on t.v. on a Sunday. Waste of time. Would have been better off staring at a wall.

August 26, 2009
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