Sure it's ridiculous. Sure it's in generally poor taste. So what?
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01/01/00
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
There are some scenes of stand-out hilarity that will actually leave you in pain.
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The trouble with the Farrelly brothers is that in order to get a laugh, they dump on everybody and everything.
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Top CriticThere is hardly a moment in the picture that is not laughable.
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I wasn't completely won over with so much comedy that depended on making fun of someone else's problems.
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It's not every day that you hear screams of laughter coming from a movie theatre.
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Get ready for some big laughs from a deeply flawed, but very funny over-the-top piece of comic anarchy.
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This comedy made me laugh. Uncontrollably.
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Political correctness takes a vacation.
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Is it worth seeing? Well, not if you want something genuinely witty.
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Positively reeks of tastelessness and lack of common decency.
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I haven't laughed this hard at any 1998 offering to-date.
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Top CriticThere's Something About Mary may be many things, but dull and routine aren't among them.
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Top CriticSome people don't know when they've taken a joke too far.
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Overall, a cute comedy with a decent premise.
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Romance never seemed more deranged.
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A fast-paced, hilarious comedy.
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For pure, unadulterated, rude, crude, stupid, disgusting, scatological puerile humor, you can't do better.
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The masters of bad taste have managed to create a surprisingly good film.
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