There's Something About Mary (1998)

All Critics (82) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (72) | Rotten (15) | DVD (39)

If the sight of a large chunk of a man's private parts caught in the teeth of a zipper is funny -- and I'm not saying it isn't -- then have I got a movie for you.

February 3, 2009 Full Review

Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post

Top Critic

This one is dumbest. And funniest, as if that matters even a little bit!

February 3, 2009 Full Review

Stephen Hunter

Washington Post

Top Critic

Wrackingly funny.

February 3, 2009 Full Review

David Edelstein

Slate

Top Critic

Crudely made, somewhat overlong and larded with plenty of things that don't work, pic stands as proof positive that a comedy can be far from perfect and still hit the bull's-eye if it delivers when it counts in its big scenes.

February 3, 2009 Full Review

Todd McCarthy

Variety

Top Critic

Despite my earlier reservations about Bobby and Peter Farrelly, they're progressively winning me over, partly because they keep getting better.

February 3, 2009 Full Review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Remarkable for all the sick and politically incorrect sight gags it gets away with in its rule-breaking romp through the supposedly sacred laws of what makes people laugh, and what doesn't.

April 27, 2007 Full Review

Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

Top Critic

Farrelly bros' classic is full of gross-out laughs.

December 18, 2010 Full Review

Heather Boerner

Common Sense Media

The movie managed to walk a line between raunchy, gross-out comedy and a romantic comedy.

January 10, 2010 Full Review

Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

Gauche, garish, and gross, a prime example of the coarsening of our culture and of the art of comedy in film. It's also pretty darn funny. [Blu-ray]

May 24, 2009 Full Review

Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews

A romantic gross-out comedy: What a concept!

August 11, 2008 Full Review

Maitland McDonagh

TV Guide's Movie Guide

Puerile, politically incorrect, rib-achingly funny and strangely insightful.

August 11, 2008 Full Review

Film4

...Dillon's Pat, in an effort to win Mary's affections, poorly attempts to ape her compassion for the handicapped by referring to them as "retards" and "goofy bastards...

October 12, 2007 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

It was the raunchy comedy that raked in the headlines and had audiences shaking their heads in offended laughter, then coming back the weekend after, dragging in friends by their arms.

February 11, 2007 Full Review

Phil Villarreal

Arizona Daily Star

Everyone falls for Mary -- why wouldn't they? -- and no one is spared from the Farrellys' razor sharp raunch.

December 6, 2005 Full Review

Tom Meek

Film Threat

One of the weirdest romantic comedies around, combining scatalogical and no-taste humor with naivete and sweetness.

April 9, 2005 Full Review

Robin Clifford

Reeling Reviews

...there were also moments when I was actually bored.

January 29, 2005 Full Review | Comments (3)

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The witty romance is enhanced by the Farrelly's outrageous physical comedy gags and off-color situations, shocking viewers all the way to the cash register.

November 6, 2004 Full Review

Douglas Pratt

Movie City News

Two very entertaining hours -- something that Hollywood comedies these days fail to deliver to the audience, with or without references to certain bodily fluids.

April 26, 2004 Full Review

Dragan Antulov

rec.arts.movies.reviews

• 1. Pat Healy: [to Tucker] We agreed I wouldn't fuck you, and you wouldn't fuck me until we got this fuck. [Ted]
  – Submitted by Brad S (6 months ago)
• 1. Pat Healy: We got this one kid, Mongo... He's got a forehead like a drive-in movie theatre, but he's a good ship. So we don't bust his chops too much.
  – Submitted by Brad S (6 months ago)
• 1. Pat Healy: My real passion is my hobby.
  2. Mary Jenson: Really what's that?
  3. Pat Healy: I work with retards.
  4. Mary Jenson: Isn't that a little uhm, politically incorrect?
  5. Pat Healy: Well to hell with that, no one's gonna tell me who I can and cant work with right?
  – Submitted by Brad S (6 months ago)
• 1. Hitchhiker: Seven's the key number hear think about it, seven eleven seven dwarfes, seven man thats the number, seven chipmonks twirling on a branch eating lots of sun flowers on my uncles ranch, you know that old childrens tale from the sea its like dreaming about gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly brie time baby, step into my office?
  2. Ted Stroehmann: Why?
  3. Hitchhiker: Cause your fucking fired.
  4. Ted Stroehmann: Yeah you know what I gotta pee, I'm just gonna pull over.
  5. Hitchhiker: I'm only waiting seven minutes total.
  – Submitted by Brad S (6 months ago)
• 1. Mary Jenson: It that... is that hair gel?
  – Submitted by Timmy C (21 months ago)

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