There's Something About Mary (1998)

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Finally watched this on TV, expecting a bit more than just juvenile gags. Sadly disappointed. Maybe a bit of plot? Beyond they're all after Mary, who rarely wears a bra and is blithely unaware that a pizza delivery boy has managed to convince her he's a crippled architect? OK, I'm a Marx Brothers fan and you could probably accuse them of all sorts of implausibilities, but they still produced classic comedy. This was tepid stuff at best.

This is the funniest film I've ever seen - and I've watched hundreds of comedy films. This is laugh-out-loud hilarious. This is what a comedy film should be like. Sure, it's not realistic that Cameron Diaz's red-hot character would want someone average like Ben Stiller's character. However, if you can suspend your disbelief in that regard - the film is riotously funny.

This is not a funny movie. This is just gross. It is badly written. Why did this get a 7.1. I can not believe people think this is funny. It is why comedy it easy. No one ever said that's not funny. So writers can put what ever they want in a comedy movie or show. There are some good actors in this movie. The writers have no talent. They are just people who make there money in cheap laughs. The actors wasted there time being in this awful movie. Do not waste your time. Do not waste your money. Do not see this pile of pooh pooh. 7.1 is just overrating it. Do not see this movie it is just vulgar and stupid. Pooh pooh, pooh pooh, pooh pooh pooh, pooh pooh. Just a lot of pooh pooh.

Sixteen year old Ted can't believe his luck when the beautiful Mary invited him to the school prom but things go disastrously when he gets caught in his zipper and ends up in an ambulance rather than going to the prom! Sixteen years later he is still obsessed with Mary even though he hasn't seen her since that dreadful night. His friend Dom says he knows private investigator who can find her; Ted hires the man, Healy, and he soon reports that she is now living in Miami, has four kids by three fathers and looks like a whale… only one of these details is true; she is in Miami but she is still beautiful and childless… so beautiful in fact that sleazy Healy sets about wooing her. Having eaves-dropped her conversations he presents himself as the perfect man for her. There are problems for Healy though, a friend of Mary sees that he is a fraud and Ted decides that he'd like to see Mary again whatever she looks like.This is probably not the rom-com to buy your mother for Christmas… unless she enjoys jokes about blokes getting their genitals caught is their zips, a woman accidentally using semen as hair gel or dogs being drugged and nearly dying. If that sort of crudeness offends then it is best to avoid this but if not there should be enough laughs to be had. The story itself is standard rom-com fare; boy loves girl but she is in love with the wrong guy it is just that the laughs along the way are often in poor taste… but some of those poor taste moments are the films funniest; although dog-lovers may disagree. Ben Stiller does a decent enough job as nice-guy Ted, even if he looked ridiculous when playing him aged sixteen. Cameron Diaz shines as the eponymous Mary but it is Matt Dillon who steals the show as Healy making the sleazy character almost likable due to the shear outrageousness of his actions. Overall if you are looking for some lowbrow humour you could do a lot worse than watch this.