There's something about movie makers that are out to impress!

Rating: 9/10 (7 July 2008)

Ted is recounting the story of his first and only true love Mary. After defending her handicapped brother Mary starts to get to know the goofy Ted and begins to like him, even inviting him to the prom. However, after going to her house and getting his genitals caught in his zip the evening goes from bad to worse with Ted spending the night in hospital and missing the prom.
After years of failed relationships Ted reminisces about Mary with his best friend who advises him to seek her out through a private detective friend of his (Played deliciously by Matt Dillon!) who also falls for Mary along with every other man in the film, thus begins this comedy of errors that made both Ben Stiller and Cameron Diaz a star and put Matt Dillon back on the map, and also, to some degree, began the rebirth of American comedy.
This film has largely been forgotten in moviegoers minds by more recent films such as "American Pie" "40 year old virgin" and "Knocked up", but this is the film that started that flurry in that it shocked people with how far it could go. The sight gags are side-splittingly funny and the physical comedy throughout is hilarious, from Matt Dillon playing ball to the legendary dog fight, it's all good. The script is great and allows all the characters to shine, but as always with films like this it's the chemistry between the leads that's the key and Ben Stiller and Cameron Diaz come together with such charm and ease that it carries you along.
As with a number of other examples over time,such as "Rocky", "Airplane" and "Pulp Fiction", it is clear that the Farrelly brothers had a very clear indication of what they wanted to do with comedy and put a lot of themselves in there and it shows. Their passion for their craft has never been more in evidence.
In an age when so many films get to the top of the box office by hype and advertising. It clawed it's way to the top because people saw it and saw it again and the reason they did that is because it is that good.
True the crude humour won't be to everyone's taste, but if you've got the stomach for some belly laughs and a small amount of smut, then you can't go far wrong here.
Megatron!