There's Something About Mary

Comment:
People looking for a typical Hollywood movie, full of politically correct stereotypes will have to forget about There's something about Mary. It's not just a matter of vulgarity, sex-related jokes and situations, it's also a continuous spoof of every kind of physical or mental 'diversity', bad jokes for handicapped or disabled people, gay, obese, etc.

The story starts with a short depiction of a typical high-school nerd, Ted, that has a chance to date a beautiful girl, Mary. However, due to his imbecility, he ruins everything... 10 years later, he hires a private investigator in order to find Mary but the investigator becomes fascinated by her and starts giving Ted wrong informations. Incidentally, he is not the only one who lies for Mary's love...

It is almost impossible to criticize anything in this movie, because it only sports a series of comical scenes, everything else is relegated to a marginal role. I am not saying this is a bad thing, putting anything serious or even barely sensible into the story would probably ruin the incredible hilarity and lightness of the movie. Moreover, the various shocking situations are aimed to entertain, they are not made for their own sake and so they only leave an amusing feeling to the viewers.

There are too many scenes that provoked a big laugh from all the audience and it won't be fair to spoil them. However, if you heard about this movie then you should surely know about the funny scene with the... ehm... 'peculiar' hair gel, which is the closing 'effect' of a tremendous masturbation scene. Most of the jokes are physical or at least visual, there are almost no subtle verbal jokes. Both Ben Stiller and Cameron Diaz don't seem intimidated at all by what they have to do and they fully contribute to the success of the movie.

This movie is definitely for an adult public, most of the jokes are based on sex and although nothing is explicitly showed (ie. it's not a porn movie!), everything is implied in far too evident ways. If you like comical movies and adult humor and you don't care about vulgarity, bad taste and profanity, then you'll probably like the show. However, you won't get anything more than this...