bah, it's okay

Rating: 6/10 (26 March 2003)

the farrelly brothers are still yet to make a funnier film than dumb and dumber. This outing sees ben stiller and cameron diaz together, in the hope of getting a lot of laughs. Instead it gets just a few laughs. The film relies too much on the 5 main set piece gags, and the time between them is wasted on dull jokes and not very amusing physical comedy. It looks bright enough, with the usual colourful framing, but it leaves you wanting more.
The actors try very hard to dish out the humour but it leads them nowhere. And lee evans is just so cringeworthy, doing an american accent so bad, you just wanna turn it off right there and then. But yes, the set pieces are funny, rib ticklingly funny. It's just a shame there is so much dead air in this one.