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Ted Prigge
"There's Something About Mary" is a lot like the Farrelly Brothers' previous two films, "Dumb and Dumber" and "Kingpin," two hilarious films that proved to even the biggest snob that fart jokes, bodily fluids, and other forms of toilet humor could be ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Ted Prigge
filmfacts (Andreas Edler)
Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
It was the raunchy comedy that raked in the headlines and had audiences shaking their heads in offended laughter, then coming back the weekend after, dragging in friends by their arms. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
Nicholas Kleszczewski
The plot is typical. Thirteen years ago, geeky Ted (Ben Stiller) lucked out in having dazzling Mary (Cameron Diaz) go with him to the senior prom. As luck would have it, on that very day, he was hospitalized. Why, I shall not tell, but I assure you, it ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Nicholas Kleszczewski
Scott Renshaw
It may also be the most consistently, unapologetically tasteless comedy I've seen this decade. After all, these are the Farrelly brothers we're talking about, the same fellows who turned laxatives and "milking a bull" into comic stomachchurners in DUMB ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Scott Renshaw
Joe Chamberlain
The jokes are nonstop in this film, and much of the comedy is on the slapstick side. I guarantee you that if you wait to watch this movie on network television, you will miss the best scenes in the movie. They will surely edit out possibly the 2 ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Joe Chamberlain
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Movies for Guys
The DVD has a great picture though it's not enhanced for widescreen TV's which is a shame. The 5.1 soundtrack is clear, though I didn't notice any real use of the surround channels. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Movies for Guys
Scott Renshaw's Screening Room (Scott Renshaw)
There's Something About Mary is the funniest comedy I've seen in this decade. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Scott Renshaw's Screening Room (Scott Renshaw)
filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Sure it’s ridiculous. Sure it’s in generally poor taste. So what? That’s what makes There's Something About Mary so good.
If you’ve seen the trailer, you know the story: Ted (Ben Stiller) finally gets to go out with Mary ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
The Reel McCoy (Patrick McCoy)
Well, what would you expect from the guys who did Dumb and Dumber and Kingpin? You'd expect something funny and also kind of stupid. But you would never expect that they'd go this far... ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at The Reel McCoy (Patrick McCoy)
Michael Dequina
Sounds like typical romantic fluff, but it is far from it. Remember that warning? While the plot covers bases seen in other, tamer romantic comedies, the brand of humor that is explored along the way is of the lowest brow. If the diarrhea and bull semen ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Michael Dequina
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Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
There's Something About Mary is funny the way Blazing Saddles was funny. You have to be in the mood for gross jokes and offensive subject matter. But if you are, it's not to be missed. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
It is more than just Ted against Healy, however, the Farelly brothers (who co-wrote the script, along with Ed Decter and John J. Strauss) go to great lengths to provide unexpected plot twists. New characters keep popping up and characters you think you ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
DVD Clinic ("JaneBlo")
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY tells the story of a beautiful, sweet blond girl named Mary and all of the hilarious adventures that the different men who love and pursue her, go through as they try to win her heart. A very cute dog named Puffy steals some ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at DVD Clinic ("JaneBlo")
UpcomingDiscs.com (David Williams)
There's Something About Mary has been literally begging to be re-released on DVD for quite some time and thankfully, Fox is getting ready to do just that with their new 2-disc set entitled There's Something -More- About Mary. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at UpcomingDiscs.com (David Williams)
Steve Rhodes
The story starts in a high school in Rhode Island, where the nerdy Ted is trying to find a date for the prom. Thus far all he has been able to get is one homely girl who says that she might go with him if things don't work out with her intended date. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Steve Rhodes
Movie Hell (Michael J. Legeros)
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY is the funniest film I've seen in a year's time. Maybe longer. Either you split your sides in this one or you don't. Peter and Bobby Farrelly (DUMB AND DUMBER, KINGPIN) direct this seemingly innocuous romantic comedy-isn't ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Movie Hell (Michael J. Legeros)
Movie Gazette (Gary Panton)
Hilarious - you'd have to be dead not to laugh at this one. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Movie Gazette (Gary Panton)
Cinematter (Matt Williams)
Peter and Bobby Farrelly (the creators of Dumb and Dumber, and Kingpin ) have turned their sights onto a romantic comedy. And in There's Something About Mary, the masters of bad taste have managed to create a surprisingly good film, their best work to ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Cinematter (Matt Williams)
Homer Yen
Thirteen years pass since Ted last saw Mary, but he has always carried a torch for his radiant highschool love. Taking some advice from his boss, he hires Pat Healy (Matt Dillon who looks like he was voted "Least Likely to Trust"), an investigator of ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Homer Yen
Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
Other than that, all I can say is go see this film and have a great time. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
This stalker comedy from brothers Bobby and Peter Farrelly proved one
of the biggest sleeper hits of 1998 and seems to be an instant cult classic
in the making - not unlike Harold and Maude
(1971), which the film happily cites at one point. The ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
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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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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
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")
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)
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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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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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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)
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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
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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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
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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
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)
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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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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
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
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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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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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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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)
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...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)
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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)
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
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
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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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Asquerosamente divertida. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Cinenganos (Alex Ramirez)
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Asquerosamente divertida. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Cinenganos (Alex Ramirez)
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Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) je vedela, da se luzer na maturantskem plesu nikakor Äudežno ne spremeni v najbolj priljubljeno osebo na Å¡oli. ÄŒetudi za nekaj trenutkov poseže po zvezdah, se noÄ ne bo konÄala dobro. Å e huje, konÄala se bo z masakrom. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Megaklik - no nonsense movie reviews in Slovene
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Every scene is filled with tasteless humor, dialogue and jokes. ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Crosswalk.com Movies (Holly McClure)
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
There's Something About Mary, a new comic love story from the creators ofDumb and Dumber, positively reeks of tastelessness and lack of common decency.By virtually spitting on people with disabilities -- a guy with permanent braces, ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
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When you write and criticize me, be kind. I will be curious to see what the Farrelly brothers put out next (and I have not seen either of their earlier pictures, Dumb & Dumber or Kingpin), especially if they learn how the camera, ...read the complete There's Something About Mary movie review at Nick's Flick Picks (Nick Davis)
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