Maybe very funny

Rating: 7/10 (18 June 2001)

This could well be a pretty good comedy, I definitely giggled at a few moments, but sadly saw it seven hours into a long haul flight and wasn't really in the best mood to enjoy it. De Niro's so-called self parody role wears a little thin, mostly composed of him gurning every now and then, and Ben Stiller repeats his useless tit act from Something About Mary and Flirting with Disaster, while the rest of the cast mostly dither around in the background (apart from ..Owen Wilson.. as Stiller's rival, his girl's ex, who tears up some scenery with a good over-the-top camp act), but basically it's situation and slapstick, with a fair old whack of toilet humour thrown in. Seemed to be well-paced and well thought out the, with a pretty high ratio of decent gags, shame I wasn't gagging for a fag or I might have been more in the mood for it.