Lame movie...trailer has best parts.

Rating: Null/10 (2 October 1998)

The trailer was hilarious, yes. The whole theater was howling! But the movie started slow. Then stayed slow. I kept waiting for it to get going, but it never did. Matt Dillon came across like he does in every film: the neighborhood bully/punk that no one likes. Cameron Diaz was cute and sexy, but Ben Stiller was kinda boring. You don't really root for him. And that "hair gel" scene. My God, is there just nothing that can't be shown in movies these days? A quick shot of him and what he was doing to "create" the hair gel would have sufficed, thank you. Not 5 minutes of it. And did we have to have the sound effects to go along with it? In all, a pretty lame flick. Even my wife thought so, and she likes silly, superficial comedies. But what do we know? The thing's making a jillion bucks at the box office. I guess America's being dumbed-down at the movies as well as the classroom.