Not quite what I'd expected.

Rating: Null/10 (11 April 1999)

Yeah, a lot of the humour in this movie is in pretty bad taste. Most everyone knows about the hair-gel scene, the zipper scene, the dog scene, etc. If all the jokes had been like that, I would have walked away feeling disgusted and thinking "boy, that was nearly as much of a waste of time as Kingpin."
Strangely, though, I found myself enjoying the film quite a bit. It was definitely not high art, but much of it was quite amusing. I believe that what did it for me was the singing narrator who just randomly pops up every so often to give a plot synopsis. That and the fact that the whole story was just so darn warm and fuzzy that I couldn't help liking it.
If possible, watch this movie with a large group of college students. That should suffice to foster the mindset necessary to truly appreciate There's Something About Mary.