Puerile, politically incorrect, rib-achingly funny and strangely insightful.
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08/11/08
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
The performers all fall effortlessly into their slapstick roles.
01/01/00
Asquerosamente divertida.
08/31/01
Really one of the most enjoyable comedies of the year.
01/01/00
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 CriticMoments of boring idiocy mixed with moments of inspired hilarity.
01/01/00
Nearly every character came alive in the film.
01/01/00
There's 'something' about Mary, all right.
01/01/00
Top CriticCameron, with her unique beauty and unquittable smile, has a way of grounding the most ridiculous situations.
11/23/01
I may have gasped a little, and that's pretty much the intended effect.
01/01/00
The movie is a sick pleasure.
01/01/00
Sure it's ridiculous. Sure it's in generally poor taste. So what?
01/01/00
There are some scenes of stand-out hilarity that will actually leave you in pain.
01/01/00
The trouble with the Farrelly brothers is that in order to get a laugh, they dump on everybody and everything.
01/01/00
Top CriticWrackingly funny.
02/03/09
There is hardly a moment in the picture that is not laughable.
01/01/00
...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
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
It's not every day that you hear screams of laughter coming from a movie theatre.
01/01/00
Get ready for some big laughs from a deeply flawed, but very funny over-the-top piece of comic anarchy.
01/01/00
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