Best Comedy in 2000

Rating: 8/10 (15 October 2000)

This is simply the best movie comedy I have seen this year. If it had a point to it, some deeper meaning, it would be in my running for best movie of the year.
Put simply, this movie is one giant situation comedy without much anything more to say. The gags are logical, but in no way truly predictable (i.e. you know *exactly* what's going to happen, to the very detail). Granted, if you're really looking that far in advance for it, you're going to find it -- though you're not really enjoying the movie. Overall, no cheap laughs, everyone is hard earned and set up nicely and logically.
MTP generates a lot of laughs without being crude (unless you consider the play on last names). It truly blew my expectations away. The preview does not do this movie justice. Even when I recognized some of the bits from the preview, they were funnier in the movie (except maybe the polygraph test, which is about the same). There was no sap, no cheesey moments, save for the end, which tidies things up nicely. Normally, I have no place in movie for those types of scenes, but this movie makes no attempts to say anything more anyway, so it is excusable.
Watch this movie. It destroys Scary Movie (vulgar and crude, "so stupid it has to be funny") in terms of sheer hilarity. I also rate MTP above There's Something About Mary, and American Pie because, again, it does not have to lower its standards to get cheap laughs. Also, the pace is much better than these other movies. The timing is excellent, with plenty of logical humor as well as physical hilarity.