I tried ...

Rating: Null/10 (4 August 2000)

Okay, I admit I never wanted to see this movie in the first place, so maybe I was just prejudiced. However, I've seen movies before that I hadn't initially been interested in and been pleasantly surprised. My reluctance was not because I had heard about the gross humor -- I have nothing against gross humor when it's funny (Naked Gun movies, for example) -- but I rarely find "romantic comedies" to be particularly interesting. But, since so many people found this film to be hilarious I thought I'd check it out. So I rented it tried to watch it. I didn't find anything funny about it at all -- the stepfather, the retarded brother, the PI, etc. were neither funny nor interesting -- just nasty, annoying and BORING. I got as far as the PI scene where he's lying to the Ben Stiller character about Mary, and couldn't watch it anymore.
Now, I hate paying for movie and then not watching it, and I remember only doing that once before (Braveheart, because it was so relentlessly intense and bloody, and I knew he was going to come to a nasty end), but in this case, I'd rather have just wasted a couple of bucks than to have wasted more of my time as well.