"Forget Leslie Nielsen!" or: "An intelligent way of making Slapstick"!

Rating: Null/10 (25 September 1998)

I saw "Something about Mary" in a sneak preview here in Munich. The Trailer already made me laugh weeks ago. And I really mean it when I say: "Something about Mary" is the funniest comedy I've ever seen. Want to know why? Well, you all know films like "Hot Shots" and similar ones. Those films don't even try to present the audience a "good" Story. No, those films really WANT to get known as 100% unserious and crazy in a funny kind of way. And that's where "Something about Mary" really is better and funny in an intelligent kind of way. There is this story about that romantic, innocent (and dumb) boy who mets this girl that really makes his heart beat stronger, and who suffers even years later that he never told that girl that he REALLY loves her. You know that guy! There is a bit of those boy and those girl in everyone of us! And while you happily remember those times in your life,... BANG! Here comes the slapstick! And we laugh so much we almost fall out of our seats, because we know: If THAT had happened to ourselves "those days", we would have been ashamed for the rest of our entire life!! - It really is "one to watch"!! :-) [German version upon mail-request]