Poor timing and muffed set pieces are compounded by implausibility and inconsequence.
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02/09/06
Say It Isn't So (2001)
9 %
Reviews Counted: 102 Fresh: 9 Rotten:93 Average Rating: 3.1/10
Consensus:
Those that haven't tired from Farrelly brothers' brand of comedy may still find some laughs here. Otherwise, the slow pacing and unimaginative shock gags will start to wear on the viewer.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Synopsis: With SAY IT ISN'T SO, the Farrelly Brothers (THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, DUMB AND DUMBER) give their former First Assistant Director J. B. Rogers a shot at the big time. The result is another crude comedy that finds laughs in a series of outrageous situations. Working from a script by... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Chris Klein, Heather Graham, Sally Field, Richard Jenkins, Orlando Jones
Director: J.B. Rogers
Screenwriter: Peter Gaulke, Gerry Swallow
Producer: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Bradley Thomas
Composer: Mason Daring
Screenwriter: Peter Gaulke, Gerry Swallow
Producer: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Bradley Thomas
Composer: Mason Daring
Reviews
Top Critic
The pedestrian, predictable plot isn't really important; the film seems to exist merely as an excuse to string together gross-out sequences.
12/10/01
You really know a film is dead in the water when it runs for 97 minutes and feels too long.
09/10/01
Top Critic
You will laugh, and you’ll often feel embarrassed that you have. But you’ll feel more embarrassed for the actors who suffer the indignities of this material.
06/18/01
Top Critic
With only a smattering of genuine giggles strewn across 90 minutes, this is heavy-handed comedy of the very worst kind.
06/15/01
Top Critic
What we have here is a wannabe-outrageous comedy that flirts with the last taboo but then retreats.
08/18/07
Flat, borderline banal comedy that in theory includes all the ingredients of the Farrelly brothers (who here serve as producers) about the seemingly incestuous relationship between siblings Chris Klein and Heather Graham
12/01/06
The Farrelly brothers, Bobby and Peter, are beginning to make the same mistake that the Zucker brothers (Jerry and David, along with Jim Abrahams) made, which was to split up and take increasingly less responsibility for their films.
05/26/06
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09/26/05
Top Critic
There are few laughs to be had during the running time of Say It Isn't So...
02/25/03
This movie sinks or swims on its humor, and frankly, the Farrellys don't appear to have been very good swimming instructors.
02/08/03
If it were up to me, I would make sure the Farrellys never made another film, or at least that I never had to see another.
10/21/02
Credit goes largely to the charm of Ms. Graham and Mr. Klein, both of whom exude a natural, sunny innocence that contrasts starkly with the naughty incest jokes swirling around them.
10/15/02
First-time director J. B. Rogers and new screenwriters Peter Gualke and Jerry Swallow appear determined to include as many gross-out scenes as possible at the expense of telling a believable story.
08/02/02
The trash heap of "There's Something About Mary" ripoffs grows a little higher.
06/20/02
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