Really funny low brow comedy

Rating: 8/10 (22 June 2004)

It's predictable, it's crass, it's hilarious. First time director Rawson Marshall Thurber, the creator of one of greatest ad campaigns of all time with Terry Tate, Office Linebacker for Reebok, scores big at the box office and on the laugh charts in his feature debut. The story is extremely simple, the gags are alternately crude and clever, and Ben Stiller turns in perhaps his greatest performance of all time. There isn't a lot to say except that it is very funny from start to finish. If you like comedies in the mold of the Farrelly Brothers, you will certainly like this. If not, best to stay clear of it. But if you like this sort of thing, it's the best comedy of its type in quite some time. Let's hope that Thurber can build on this and create a real name for himself.