Ah, a film from the morons who gave us 'Me, Myself & Irene' and 'There's Something About Mary.' Both of those movies truly were horrible as was 'Shallow Hal', a film that had one of the worst pair of actors I have ever seen and boring jokes that fell flat at about 50 times per minute.
I am officially done with the idiotic Farrelly brothers. I just don't get them. 'Dumb and Dumber' was at least tolerable and so *not* annoying. That was probably their best film yet, and that's not saying a whole lot.
The main problem, which probably only exists in my mind though I don't know why anyone else wouldn't see it from my point of view, is that the casting was all wrong. Gwyneth Paltrow. Gwyneth Paltrow a 300 pound woman? Come on, what has happen to this gal's career? I'm not a big Gwyneth fan, but she at least knows SOME good roles when they do, indeed, roll around. It's bad enough when Paltrow, an actress who earns millions and millions of dollars and can have the pick of probably any script, goes for a film that is as lame as this, but why, oh why would Jack Black be cast in a lead role. Somebody please explain this to me because I am having a difficult time grasping the idea of Black actually getting paid for being such a jerk. He is annoying and one of the worst so-called comedians to come around Hollywood in a while. Never would I ever pay to see him in anything again. Not even in a film in which he has three lines.
I found 'Shallow Hal' to be one of the most boring comedies I've seen in quite some time. The supposed jokes aimed to make the audience laugh fell flat like an anvil. I laughed....maybe twice, but I'm being generous. (Jason Alexander's performance evoked the most laughter from me.) As bad as 'Me, Myself & Irene' was, it at least made me chuckle, despite the fact that it was asinine and seemed as if it had kids working behind the cameras.
I know that a lot of people have come down hard on this film mainly because it picked at the overweight population. Okay, what exactly is the problem? For those who ARE overweight and just find this movie to be so insulting, why don't you go out and actually do something about your weight instead of sitting around typing about it? For the others who just didn't like it because it targeted obese folks, if you didn't want to see a movie like that, you shouldn't have gone and saw it. I mean it's not like you didn't know what the movie was going to be about. Alright, enough of that, let me get back on track.
Well, I guess I AM done. Gwyneth Paltrow shouldn't have signed on, Jack Black is just a jackass and if you want laughs, go rent something else, anything else. Did the previews look good? Obviously, or I wouldn't have gone out and coughed up a couple of bucks even though it was a complete waste of time. The best thing about this film happened in about the last two minutes; it's where the song Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) plays. Love that song, can't get enough of it. Oh well, at least it was a nice way to end such a terrible movie.
I am officially done with the idiotic Farrelly brothers. I just don't get them. 'Dumb and Dumber' was at least tolerable and so *not* annoying. That was probably their best film yet, and that's not saying a whole lot.
The main problem, which probably only exists in my mind though I don't know why anyone else wouldn't see it from my point of view, is that the casting was all wrong. Gwyneth Paltrow. Gwyneth Paltrow a 300 pound woman? Come on, what has happen to this gal's career? I'm not a big Gwyneth fan, but she at least knows SOME good roles when they do, indeed, roll around. It's bad enough when Paltrow, an actress who earns millions and millions of dollars and can have the pick of probably any script, goes for a film that is as lame as this, but why, oh why would Jack Black be cast in a lead role. Somebody please explain this to me because I am having a difficult time grasping the idea of Black actually getting paid for being such a jerk. He is annoying and one of the worst so-called comedians to come around Hollywood in a while. Never would I ever pay to see him in anything again. Not even in a film in which he has three lines.
I found 'Shallow Hal' to be one of the most boring comedies I've seen in quite some time. The supposed jokes aimed to make the audience laugh fell flat like an anvil. I laughed....maybe twice, but I'm being generous. (Jason Alexander's performance evoked the most laughter from me.) As bad as 'Me, Myself & Irene' was, it at least made me chuckle, despite the fact that it was asinine and seemed as if it had kids working behind the cameras.
I know that a lot of people have come down hard on this film mainly because it picked at the overweight population. Okay, what exactly is the problem? For those who ARE overweight and just find this movie to be so insulting, why don't you go out and actually do something about your weight instead of sitting around typing about it? For the others who just didn't like it because it targeted obese folks, if you didn't want to see a movie like that, you shouldn't have gone and saw it. I mean it's not like you didn't know what the movie was going to be about. Alright, enough of that, let me get back on track.
Well, I guess I AM done. Gwyneth Paltrow shouldn't have signed on, Jack Black is just a jackass and if you want laughs, go rent something else, anything else. Did the previews look good? Obviously, or I wouldn't have gone out and coughed up a couple of bucks even though it was a complete waste of time. The best thing about this film happened in about the last two minutes; it's where the song Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) plays. Love that song, can't get enough of it. Oh well, at least it was a nice way to end such a terrible movie.