There is most definitely something about Mary

Rating: 8/10 (13 March 2010)

There is something about Mary indeed! For a girl to have not one, not two, not even three stalkers, but four people who are so obsessed with her they will do anything to get near her. Although there is always a reason behind why people do things you tend to wonder, how far are they going to go? If you look at Mary (Cameron Diaz) you see all the things a person would dream of. She is beautiful, smart, funny, caring, she's into sports and best of all she is 100% completely single. Now, Ted (Ben Stiller) who was in love with her since high school, realizes thirteen years later that he is still in love with her and needs to find her. He hires the not so great private investigator Healy (Matt Dillon) who, of course, falls in love with the perfect Mary too. But, it doesn't stop there. After delivering a pizza one night to Mary's home, Tucker (Lee Evans), decides to take another approach to get to Mary and that is to pretend he is cripple to win her and her kindness over. It goes on from here with Dom a.k.a. Woogy (Chris Elliot), Mary's psycho ex-boyfriend.
This movie has the typical plot, man is in love, man finds girl, man wins girl, and movie is over. And yes, that sounds boring and much similar to every other film, but it's not. In this one, everyone knows who is going to get the girl in the end, but no one cares. It is more about the humorous things that Ben Stiller does, in the beginning for example the 'zipper accident', or what the psychotic things ex-boyfriend Chris Elliot does with Mary's shoes. The list goes on.
As far as comedy, if you thought directors Bobby and Peter Farrelly's movie Dumb and Dumber was funny, this movie will have you rolling. The movies stress on the fact that there are several men in love with Mary using motifs. Over and over again you see the hilarious acts of desperate men seeking her undivided attention. I absolutely love this movie. I can watch it a thousand times over and still find it amusing.