Mary movie bests normal Farrelly fare

Rating: Null/10 (15 January 1999)

Something About Mary is a hilarious mishmash of stock Gen. X irony, absurd situational humour and sexually suggestive sight gags. The story is not very complex (a characteristic shared by both Kingpin and Dumb and Dumber), but its telling is fantastic, including as it does Greek chorus-style minstrels, several zany sub-plots, and a flashback scene of pure comedic beauty. Like Raising Arizona, this film hails from that rare hardly-plausible-but-somehow-believable category. But unlike the now-dated Coen Brothers, the Farrellys seem to be coming right into their heyday. Nice work, boys.