Do you want only to laugh?

Rating: 7/10 (29 July 1999)

Do you want to see a movie where you can laugh, where the main character is clumsy but generous and idealist, where nearly the whole bunch of characters are only caricatures and where every vulgarity forbidden in other films is allowed here? Then watch this movie... Personally I watched it because I wanted to have some good laughs and I had what I wanted, nut nothing more. I adored the previous Farrelly bros' movie (Dumb & Dumber) where everything was crazy and farcical. The defect of this one is that there are two characters that are too human (played by the divine Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller): so the exhilarating scenes that include Stiller (and where you laugh almost to tears) seem uprooted from the other more serious scenes where the directors have to develop the story, just because they have two human character,too. So the rhythm of the movie seems to limp (just like many characters) and it goes too long, for a movie of this kind. The invention of the two boys that play and sing (like a greek chorus all through the movie) is very good. A few last words about the advertised "politically uncorrect" in this movie: I found the scenes including disableds not too disturbing. In fact I believe it's right to treat them like the rest of the people because they are human beings just like the others, but take care not to exaggerate, or it could transform in racism.