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There's Something About Mary (1998) Rank 3 Reviews
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The Common Guy (Paul Hall)
San Francisco Chronicle (Bob Graham)
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Media-Assault.com (Sean Caszatt)
Bobby and Peter Farrelly, the makers of Dumb & Dumber and Kingpin, have a knack for making some of the most unusual, but funny, comedies to come down the pike in quite awhile. Sometimes, their unique brand of humor results in some outlandish and ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Media-Assault.com (Sean Caszatt)
JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
Likeable comedy with a few extremely funny scenes, some funny looking people, and a plot that won't ever put you to sleep. Having said that, I must admit that I did like the Farrellys' two previous films more than this one, but that is saying a lot, ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Although their first two films gave the Farrelly Brothers (Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin) the reputation as the kings of raunchy comedy, There's Something About Mary shows that they could actually harness their penchant for gross gags into a romantic comedy p ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
From the Farrelly brothers (Bobby and Peter), the ones who gave us Dumb and Dumber and the uproarious Kingpin, comes even more gut wrenching scatological fun. This one parades around as a sweet adolescent romance with Ted (Ben Stiller), the school ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
here are two possible responses to the Farrelly Brothers' new movie, "There's Something About Mary": either you will think it childish, stupid, juvenile, and sick, and walk out of the theater in the first half hour; or you will think it childish, ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
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Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Although their first two films gave the Farrelly Brothers (Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin) the reputation as the kings of raunchy comedy, There's Something About Mary shows that they could actually harness their penchant for gross gags into a romantic comedy p ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
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Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
I may have gasped a little, and that's pretty much the intended effect. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)
Somewhere in the midst of all this puerile humor, there’s a movie that is trying to be told. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
I may have gasped a little, and that's pretty much the intended effect. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
Cinema em Cena (Pablo Villaça)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
The Farrelly Brothers' first two films, Dumb and Dumber and Kingpin, were outrageous, uncouth, bawdy, and unapologetically lowbrow. Their third film, There's Something about Mary, is all of those things and one more: hilarious. I rarely chuckled during Du ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Earlier in this review, I mentioned Monty Python. While the mostly-British troupe is probably best
known for their cerebral comedy, they were actually quite fond of bathroom humor, and there's
something in the Farrellys' brazen, ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
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Mr. Brown's Movies (Michael Dequina)
Anyone who can tap into the Farrellys' truly sick and twisted wavelength will find a mother lode of laughs. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Mr. Brown's Movies (Michael Dequina)
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Brian Takeshita
Fast forward to the present, where Ted has cleaned himself up, now writes for a magazine, but has weekly therapy sessions in order to deal with his obsession of the past 13 years: Mary, whom he hasn't seen since that fateful day. With the help of his ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Brian Takeshita
Dragan Antulov
where the filmmakers were still able to shock the audience wascomedy. Comedies were never supposed to be taken seriously and,therefore, their content could hardly have any potentially harmfulinfluence on the viewers and real world. Spared from ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Dragan Antulov
Edward Johnson-Ott
"There's Something About Mary" is gross and offensive. It's poorly paced, often sluggish and about a half hour too long. A lot of the comedy bits fall flat and the ones that do work depend on shock value, mining cheap laughs from animal abuse, bodily ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Edward Johnson-Ott
Nathaniel R. Atcheson
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
What a blessed relief is laughter. It flies in the face of manners, values, political correctness and decorum. It exposes us for what we are, the only animal with a sense of humor. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
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Alex Fung
"There's something about Mary," croons comic troubadour Jonathan Richmond by way of explanation at one point in the remarkably silly film of the same name, which prompts one to take inventory: as portrayed by Cameron Diaz, perpetual object of desire ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Alex Fung
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Movie Reviews UK
In the world of cinema, labelling any new release a "comedy" rarely gives more than the broadest indication of what your audience is letting itself in for. So wide and varied is the genre that subdivision is necessary, nay, crucial. Some comedies are ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Movie Reviews UK
DVDActive (Richard Schuchardt)
Movie There's Something about Mary has a simple plot. Ted, played by Ben Stiller (Meet the Parents) is a guy who ever since High School has had a crush on Mary played by Cameron Diaz (The Mask and Charlie’s Angels). At High School Ted was a ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at DVDActive (Richard Schuchardt)
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I thought I was prepared for the Farelly Brothers’ new movie, There’s Something About Mary. I was ready for jokes about bodily functions, jokes about extreme physical pain, jokes about a scantily-clad Cameron Diaz. What I wasn’t ready for was a ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at newenglandfilm.com
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I'll say it again: Comedy is a funny thing. What is uproarious to one person may bore or even insult another. Guaranteed, the Farrelly brothers' 1998 comedy "There's Something About Mary" offers something to offend nearly everyone. For the most part it's ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at DVD Town (John J. Puccio)
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It starts in Rhode Island, 1985, when the teenage sad sack, Ted Stroehmann (Ben Stiller), is looking for a date to the prom after being cruelly rejected by a calculating coed. But his luck soon changes, as he is asked to the prom by the perfect girl, ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Philip Martin)
...there were also moments when I was actually bored. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Philip Martin)
Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
I wasn't completely won over with so much comedy that depended on making fun of someone else's problems. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
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The Boston Phoenix
Michael Redman
In 1985 high school loser Ted Stroehmann (Ben Stiller) finally hits it lucky. Mary Jenson (Cameron Diaz), the local teen beauty, has asked him to the Senior Prom after he stuck up for her mentally challenged brother Warren (W. Earl Brown). True to form, ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Michael Redman
Walter Frith
Member of the 'Online Film Critics Society'http://smart.sbay.com/ofcs/Say hello to Ted. He's a nerdy little yet well meaning guy who is about to go to his high school prom in Rhode Island in 1985. Never dreaming he'd get a decent date for the occasion, ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Walter Frith
The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
In conclusion, I repeat myself: I honestly don't know whether this movie should be recommended, so I'm not going to make a decision. Go and see it, if you like. Laugh loudly. Just don't expect to understand why you laughed once you've left the cinema. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
Kevin Patterson
This may be partly a result of the fact that others had told me about the most, uh, unusual jokes before I saw the movie, and therefore the shock factor was diluted. The movie is, in fact, a lot more explicit with vulgar sight gags than most comedies. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Kevin Patterson
eye WEEKLY (Gemma Files)
Most of There's Something About Mary, the latest entry in the "extreme" comedy oeuvre of writer/directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly, is exactly what you'd expect from the proud pair of doofuses who gave us Kingpin and Dumb And Dumber -- an endless parade ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at eye WEEKLY (Gemma Files)
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