Shallow Hal (2001)
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 120
Fresh: 61 | Rotten: 59
While surprisingly sweeter and warm-hearted than previous Farrelly outings, Shallow Hal is also less funny and more bland.
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 17
While surprisingly sweeter and warm-hearted than previous Farrelly outings, Shallow Hal is also less funny and more bland.
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Jack Black continues his march to stardom with this typical Farrelly brothers blend of broad comedy and a heartfelt message. Black is Hal Larsen, a shallow man rapidly approaching middle age whose superficiality can be attributed to his father's deathbed admonition to only date young, beautiful women. Hal and his best friend, Mauricio (Jason Alexander), have taken the advice to heart, but Hal finds all of his physically impressive girlfriends consistently lacking in other qualities that would
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Cast
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Gwyneth Paltrow
Rosemary Shanahan -
Jack Black
Hal Larsen -
Jason Alexander
Mauricio -
Joe Viterelli
Steve Shanahan -
Rene Kirby
Walt -
Bruce McGill
Reverend Larson -
Tony Robbins
Himself -
Susan Ward
Jill -
Zen Gesner
Ralph -
Brooke Burns
Katrina -
Rob Moran
Other Hostess -
Joshua Li'i'Boy Shitani
Li'iBoy -
Kyle Gass
Artie -
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Nan Martin
Nurse Tanya Peeler -
Sasha Joseph Neulinger
Young Hal -
John-Eliot Jordan
Waiter -
Jill Christine Fitzgerald
Mrs. Shanahan -
Fawn Irish
Spastic Bella -
Erinn Bartlett
Bella -
Daniel Greene
Doctor -
E. Danny Murphy
Cabbie -
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All Critics (141) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (62) | Rotten (60) | DVD (29)
We've seen so many crummy comedies that try to be There's Something About Mary or something like this. And the Farrelly brothers come to the rescue and show us how it's done.
Top CriticThe film itself is little more than a series of fat jokes.
Not only light on laughs but discomfitingly didactic in its disgust.
Makes the case for restricting the Farrellys to mere gross-out movies.
An ill-conceived, slovenly executed and disingenuous comedy.
The movie's valuable message that we must look beyond physical appearances to find the heart within ... is drowned out by the din of loathsome idiots mocking physical appearances.
Romantic comedy is pretty tame for Farrelly Bros.
The Farrellys take an artistic step backward with this soft, disappointingly sentimental comedy about the true nature of beauty; they seem to have forgotten their roots in the outrageous and gross-out.
[An] insulting new comedy from Bobby and Peter Farrelly.
There's just about enough charm and laughs here to keep Farrelly fans happy. Even the fat ones.
In delivering their message, the Farrelly Brothers seem to have compromised their nothing-is-sacred comedy spirit, but at least their hearts are in the right place.
Audience Reviews for Shallow Hal
Super Reviewer
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- Hal Larsen: So what are you in... the army?
- Rosemary Shanahan: Peace corps.
- Hal Larsen: Peace corps.. wow.. that's very... ultradocious of you.
- Rosemary Shanahan: Ultradocious? That's not a word.. ahh you mean humanidocious.. right?
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