Movie Schitzo's Review of "There's Something About Mary"

Rating: 7/10 (30 July 2006)

One of The Farreley Brothers greatest films that is also known as probably one of the most famous gross out comedies of all time and the blast off of The Farreley Brother's career, this is one of the stupid yet sweet films everyone loves to watch along the lines of "Me, Myself and Irene". The story is simple: Ted Stromen (Ben Stiller) is a High School geek who has a crush on the prettiest girl in school Mary Jensen (Cameron Diaz) although she has a mentally challenged brother named Warren (W Earl Brown) who sometimes gets Ted into some embarrassing situations. Ted decides to ask Mary to the Prom and on Prom night, a disaster happens that keeps Ted and Mary from dancing all through the night. Flash forward 13 years and Ted is a wreck after the date never happened. So Ted hires a sleazy private Dick Pat Healy (Matt Dillon) to spy on Mary, to see how she is doing. But, after getting one glimpse of Mary, he lies to Ted and moves to get closer to Mary. This is one of those tasteless comedies that no one would have thought would work but it did and became an instant cult classic and boosted The Farrelley Brothers up to the status as the kings of comedy gross out movies. Some side characters are Tucker (Lee Evans), a friend of Mary's and Dom (Chris Elliot) an ex boyfriend of Mary's. The cast and directors work very well together and create a movie that is sure to go down in history.
3 out of 4 stars