Something about weirdos that'll have you laughing so hard that it hurts...

Rating: 6/10 (13 September 2006)

THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY that has every man in the film falling for her (sometimes literally) in a comedy that moves along with gay abandon and no shortage of slapstick silliness. Mary is played with breezy style by CAMERON DIAZ (a throwback perhaps to Carole Lombard's wackiness in this sort of thing), and, of course, BEN STILLER gets to play the lovesick fool who ruins his first prom date with her by getting stung by his zipper.
There are too many sight gags here to enumerate, but the funniest have to do with Mary's dog and the other is the famous scene where hair-gel takes on a new meaning.
MATT DILLON is the sleazy friend who agrees to find the missing Mary after many years have separated Stiller and Diaz, only to find that he's instantly in love with her too. Naturally, he tells Stiller that she's turned into a blimp in a wheelchair--and you can predict that when Stiller finds out the truth there will be hell to pay.
Hilarious moments dominate the breezy comedy from the Farrelly Brothers, full of visual and verbal gags that are non-stop until the last moment. By all means, worth seeing unless you're completely grossed out by this type of humor.