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There's Something About Mary
1998
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There's Something About Mary
Positive Reviews
38
Negative reviews
8
Average Rating
3.6
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2.0
The jokes carry an implication: If you dont laugh, youre elitist or overly correct.
EW
3.8
It exposes us for what we are, the only animal with a sense of humor.Theres Something About Mary is an unalloyed exercise in bad taste, and contains f ..
Rogerebert
3.0
But the film definitely has enough to satisfy adult gross out humor fans.
Common Sense Media
1.5
Crudely made, somewhat overlong and larded with plenty of things that dont work, pic stands as proof positive that a comedy can be far from perfect an ..
Variety
0.0
The makers of Theres Something About Mary, for example, believe it is enough for a comedy to be funny.Talk about arrogance!
3.5
Wit and urbanity be damned.Theres Something About Mary is tasteless and sophomoric and proud of it.
3.0
You can bet that whenever the story slows down to advance the plot concerning its paper thin characters, the film takes a noticeable dip.
5.0
You know how you go see a film thats been hyped up the butt and no matter how good it is, its never as good as you expected Trash that theory. No matt ..
E Film Critic
2.5
Theres something funny about this movie Theres Something About Mary is a supremely silly movie, which means that it has moments of boring idiocy mixed ..
San Francisco Chronicle
5.0
It goes on.There are payoffs that people will be laughing at all over again merely at the thought.
San Francisco Chronicle
3.5
This one is also quite funny, but it didnt really blow me away like the others.Then again, maybe my expectations were too high.
JoBlo
4.0
The Farrelly brothers direct this over the top comedy about the crazy course of infatuation and the always unpredictable games of sexual politics.
Spirituality And Practice
2.8
This raunchy comedy is created by the Farrelly brothers, who gave us Dumb and Dumber and Kingpin.Its a winner only for those who dont mind being gross ..
Sover
3.8
Its not enough for a motion picture to employ gross out humor; it has to do it successfully (timing and reaction shots are important).
ReelViews
3.8
But two elaborate sequences involving a bad tempered little ankle biter are standouts, as is the zipper calamity.
Tv Guide
2.0
In tradition with the style that Abrahams has gained through his years of making comedy film, the gags are fast and furious.If you dont like one joke, ..
3.1
Though the film remains entertaining for a little while, primarily through the enthusiasm of the performers, the film eventually becomes the same sort ..
Reel Film Reviews
4.5
The handsome Dillon manages to make himself unattractive in many inventive ways.
Lariat
3.5
This is a riotous screwball comedy for the 90s that surpasses the tastelessness of the duos first two movies no small achievement but also pays homage ..
Film Journal International ..
3.0
Get ready for some big laughs from a deeply flawed, but very funny over the top piece of comic anarchy.
Internet Reviews
5.0
This film is remarkably intelligent and totally honest about an intriguing topic, the topic of obsession.
Internet Reviews
1.5
Its not Marys lack of political correctness I have a problem with, nor is it the crudity.What annoys me is the cheapness of the jokes characters like ..
3.5
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Salon
1.0
What held those jokes together apart from Carreys resourceful clowning and Jeff Daniels sweetness was an elusive combination of professional disciplin ..
Slate
4.5
The films three principals clearly had fun.Diaz remains a revelation: seductive, luminous, human and delightfully comedic.
4.5
Remarkable for all the sick and politically incorrect sight gags it gets away with in its rule breaking romp through the supposedly sacred laws of wha ..
Observer
4.4
Despite its flaws, what sells Lethal Weapon 4 is the action, and between a spectacular midfilm freeway chase to Lis amazing acrobatics, it is definite ..
Mr Brown Movies
3.8
Theres Something about Mary is gauche, garish, and gross, a prime example of the coarsening of our culture and of the art of comedy in film.Its also p ..
Groucho Reviews
3.8
Piling joke on top of joke, the bit lasts at least five minutes, and while before long youre absolutely ashamed to still be laughing, it just cant be ..
Spliced Wire
4.4
Theres Something about Mary is the funniest movie to come along since Liar Liar.
Movie Habit
4.0
What really worked and still does with this film is that the movie managed to walk a line between raunchy, gross out comedy and a romantic comedy.
7M Pictures
4.0
As each contender tries to woo the enchanting woman resorting to sneaky tactics to undermine one another its evident that theres not enough Mary to go ..
5.0
I wasnt just laughing, I was howling like a madman, like the rest of the audience.
Montreal Film Journal
2.0
Ted had touched Warrens ears and Warren doesnt let anyone touch his ears.
Dennis Schwartz Reviews
4.0
Though the plot of this film is trivial, what makes it succeed is the sheer outlandishness of the comedy.
Film Quips Online
4.5
Despite my earlier reservations about Bobby and Peter Farrelly, theyre progressively winning me over, partly because they keep getting better.
Chicago Reader
4.5
Puerile, politically incorrect, rib achingly funny and strangely insightful.
Film4
4.0
...sophomoric, politically incorrect, exaggerated, overdone, and trivial. Yet its as hilarious as anything ever filmed.
Movie Metropolis
2.5
But after the ups and downs from groaning with bored displeasure to laughing with delight, a very lame and unsatisfying ending (with the failed but in ..
Need Coffee
3.0
Every joke is an aside, since nothing that actually happens in this movie is actually funny.
Nicks Flick Picks
4.5
The Farrellys have the gift for generating laughter from discomfort and vice versa, an insight commonly misconstrued as bad taste.
Boston Phoenix
5.0
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, ..
Arizona Daily Star
4.4
Theres Something About Mary is crude, vulgar, offensive, and in exceedingly bad taste, but its painfully funny.Not every joke hits its intended target ..
Cine Matter
2.0
I may have gasped a little, and thats pretty much the intended effect.
Deep Focus
3.1
The Farrellys work so hard to be outrageous they end up sacrificing story, characters, even comedy, to achieve maximum gross out.
4.5
There are some scenes of stand out hilarity that will actually leave you in pain.
Empire Online
3.5
Sometimes tender, mostly wildly over the top, the Farrellys have managed to make a movie at least ten times funnier than Dumb and Dumber.
Film Vault
4.5
Theres Something About Mary is the funniest comedy Ive seen in this decade.
Scott Renshaw's Screening ..
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