You may also want to keep [a] washcloth handy, just to stifle those embarrassing aftershocks of laughter.
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04/25/03
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
Though the plot of this film is trivial, what makes it succeed is the sheer outlandishness of the comedy.
02/08/03
[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 Farrellys work so hard to be outrageous they end up sacrificing story, characters, even comedy, to achieve maximum gross-out.
10/15/02
I wasn't just laughing, I was howling like a madman, like the rest of the audience.
09/10/02
Um dos filmes mais politicamente incorretos que já vi em toda a minha vida.
05/31/02
The Farrellys have the gift for generating laughter from discomfort and vice versa, an insight commonly misconstrued as bad taste.
03/24/02
A nonstop series of outrageously funny incidents characterizes this over-the-top comedy about infatuation.
03/02/02
Cameron, with her unique beauty and unquittable smile, has a way of grounding the most ridiculous situations.
11/23/01
Asquerosamente divertida.
08/31/01
Sensational, sicko fun -- you won't believe your eyes -- and just the thing to shake up the creeping conservatism that is draining the vulgar life out of pop culture.
05/11/01
...sophomoric, politically incorrect, exaggerated, overdone, and trivial. Yet it's as hilarious as anything ever filmed.
04/07/01
Irreverent and demented, but sweet
02/27/01
A giddy symphony of rude and raucous low humor.
02/14/01
Top CriticThe funniest movie I have seen in a long time.
01/01/01
The performers all fall effortlessly into their slapstick roles.
01/01/00
Top CriticReally one of the most enjoyable comedies of the year.
01/01/00
Moments 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
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