Crude, offensive, sexist -- and embarrassingly hilarious.
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06/24/06
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
Reviews for There's Something About Mary
Top CriticThere are some scenes of stand-out hilarity that will actually leave you in pain.
01/01/00
Top CriticIs it worth seeing? Well, not if you want something genuinely witty.
01/01/00
Puerile, politically incorrect, rib-achingly funny and strangely insightful.
08/11/08
Top CriticTwo 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
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
Romance never seemed more deranged.
01/01/00
Mary is reminiscent of the crazed, hellzapoppin' style of the Marx Brothers.
01/01/00
I haven't laughed this hard at any 1998 offering to-date.
01/01/00
I don't remember the last time I laughed as hard at a movie.
01/01/00
For pure, unadulterated, rude, crude, stupid, disgusting, scatological puerile humor, you can't do better.
01/01/00
A nonstop series of outrageously funny incidents characterizes this over-the-top comedy about infatuation.
03/02/02
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]
05/24/09
Nearly every character came alive in the film.
01/01/00
One of the weirdest romantic comedies around, combining scatalogical and no-taste humor with naivete and sweetness.
04/09/05
There's plenty to enjoy in the performances.
01/01/00
Top Critic[The filmmakers], out of some hyperactive reflex, grab at any joke they can get, like toddlers trying desperately to spear fish in a creek--a shallow creek.
01/10/03
The trouble with the Farrelly brothers is that in order to get a laugh, they dump on everybody and everything.
01/01/00
Anyone who can tap into the Farrellys' truly sick and twisted wavelength will find a mother lode of laughs.
01/01/00
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