A little raunchy, but overall a very funny movie.

Rating: Null/10 (13 February 2005)

The backdrop for this story is high school, pretty and ditzy Mary (Cameron Diaz) has a date with insecure and clutzy Ted (Ben Stiller). One of Ted's friends instructs him, to avoid possible embarrassment sexually, he should masturbate before the date. Which he does, but in his own way botches that up, something gets caught in the zipper, and Mary finds a new and improved "hair gel", all of which creates some slapstick humor for those not bothered by bodily functions.
The main of the story is some years later, when Ted finds out that Mary is still single and living in Miami. he hires Pat Healy (Matt Dillon) as a private eye to check things out and, being of questionable character falls for Mary himself, and gives Ted a false report. However, Ted eventually gets things right and the battle for Mary's affections begins.
Even though she was very well received for her role with Jim Carrey in Mask, for me this was the performance that got Cameron Diaz on my radar screen as an unusually talented actress. She has done other good roles, like the almost unrecognizable character she plays in "Being John Malkovich", and I really liked her in a much earlier role, in "Feeling Minnesota", but has not done much of substance recently.