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]
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05/24/09
There's Something About Mary (1998)
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Reviews Counted:80
Fresh:66
Rotten:14
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: There's Something About Mary proves that unrelentingly, unabashedly peurile humor doesn't necessarily come at the expense of a film's heart.
Runtime: 2 hrs 18 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY is a no-holds-barred comedy tour-de-force in which 30-something Ben Stiller locates and courts his high school dreamgirl (Cameron Diaz), unwittingly enlisting the help... [More]
Starring: Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Chris Elliott
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
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Reviews for There's Something About Mary
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.
02/03/09
Top CriticThis one is dumbest. And funniest, as if that matters even a little bit!
02/03/09
Top CriticWrackingly funny.
02/03/09
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.
02/03/09
Top CriticDespite my earlier reservations about Bobby and Peter Farrelly, they're progressively winning me over, partly because they keep getting better.
02/03/09
Top CriticA romantic gross-out comedy: What a concept!
08/11/08
Puerile, politically incorrect, rib-achingly funny and strangely insightful.
08/11/08
...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...
10/12/07
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.
04/27/07
Top CriticIt 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.
02/11/07
Crude, offensive, sexist -- and embarrassingly hilarious.
06/24/06
Everyone falls for Mary -- why wouldn't they? -- and no one is spared from the Farrellys' razor sharp raunch.
12/06/05
One of the weirdest romantic comedies around, combining scatalogical and no-taste humor with naivete and sweetness.
04/09/05
...there were also moments when I was actually bored.
01/29/05
Two very entertaining hours -- something that Hollywood comedies these days fail to deliver to the audience, with or without references to certain bodily fluids.
04/26/04
Gross-out laughs with heart.
07/16/03
When it's not mean spirited, tastelessness can be riotously funny. And this is a gag-a-thon of hugely funny proportions.
05/14/03
You may also want to keep [a] washcloth handy, just to stifle those embarrassing aftershocks of laughter.
04/25/03
Top CriticThough the plot of this film is trivial, what makes it succeed is the sheer outlandishness of the comedy.
02/08/03
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