Started to cross the boundaries of decency

Rating: 4/10 (6 December 2013)

I guess the first thing that I must say about this movie is that it is disgusting. I will warn off all of you who do not like explicit sexual jokes. This movie is not pornographic, nor are their any "sex" scenes, in the narrow meaning of the word, but there is some sexually explicit scenes. Secondly, I probably only laughed about five times in this movie - it was not all that funny. Even though, I cannot say that I hated the movie because the plot was decent and the characters were reasonable. There were two disgusting scenes I did not like, but I have come to a point where I do not judge a movie purely on two scenes (unlike my sister).
This is a romantic comedy about a boy named Ted and a girl named Mary. Mary is such an attractive woman that everybody wants to go out with her, but nobody is willing to reveal the truth about themselves to her - that is nobody but Ted. Ted meets her when he steps in to protect her brother Warren who is intellectually disabled. After walking her home, Mary asks him to the prom, but on prom night he has an accident (the first disgusting scene - they did not have to show you) and is incapacitated for two weeks. During this time, Mary's father is transferred to Miami and they are separated for thirteen years.
After this time, Ted is still thinking of Mary and his friend Dom tells him of a detective that could find her. Ted decides to get this guys help, but he is not that helpful, falling in love with Mary and going to Florida to court her while telling a load of lies to Ted. After finding out the truth, Ted travels to Florida to try and court Mary himself. In the end, Mary has five guys all trying to court her and all trying to undermine the others chances of attracting Mary to them (actually, six guys).
I guess this movie is moving comedy forward where it is telling dirtier jokes as the older ones become old and used and more things become acceptable. Unfortunately I do not find the dirty jokes all that funny, and then being caught in an uncompromising position is pretty old in itself. I guess the movie sets itself up though, saying early on that homosexuals hang out at highway rest stops and then having the main character trip over a whole hoard of them when he stops to go to the toilet.
I also like the romantic aspects of this movie - being a bit of a romantic myself (at least at the time of writing the original commentary). I do admire Ted for his nobility at the end, but it also portrays the adage that if you love somebody, set them free - and if they love you they will return. The deceitful parts of the movie are interesting, where people use their knowledge of Mary to gain her affections.
Beyond that I guess that there is little that I can say. The movie was okay, but the disgusting parts of it do drag it down a lot in my opinion.