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Our First Review Of The New Untitled Farrelly Brothers Film!

Yes... by jimmy rabbitte	Mar 29th, 2007 07:59:42 AM
have you seen my baseball?
It was a parakeet, not a parrot! by chrth	Mar 29th, 2007 08:23:28 AM

Man, they're still trying to do a proper rom com by filmcoyote	Mar 29th, 2007 08:25:54 AM
stick to what your good at boys. D&D = hilarious. Kingpin = hilarious (and big Bill's best role since Groundhog). Mary = pretty damn hilarious. They started to edge more to the rom com side here but Diaz, Dillon and Evans held it back on the good side. The problem here is the Farrellys and Stiller are obsessed with being seen as able to 'crowd-pleasing rom com' not just stupid but hilarious sketch coms. But that's what they're good at. The Farrellys suck when rom com takes over - Fever Pitch anyone? And Stiller? Man, the guy can do funny when he goes all out like in Zoolander or Dodgeball - hell, even directorial in Cable Guy - but like Carrey, etc he loves to show his other side and ends up delivering crap like Along Came Polly and Night At the Museum. Puh-lease. This sounds like they are still trying to please both themselves and their fans. You so know a sweet, dull, toned-down second-half if going to ruin this movie. After all, even gut-busting laughs are hard to remember when you've been beaten by the saccharine stick for an hour after.
The Farrelly Brothers rule by grossepblank	Mar 29th, 2007 08:27:09 AM
The Farrelly Brothers are in my list of top directors, Stuck On You is one of the sweetest comedies ever, osmosis jones is hilarious, Dumb and Dumber always makes me smile, I tell you these guys know comedy I have no doubt that their next movie will be hilarious.
Armless assholes? by the beef	Mar 29th, 2007 08:32:02 AM
If anyone knows someone that has an armed asshole, then by god post that shit somewhere.
This reviewer LOVES women. Not. by Teh Suk	Mar 29th, 2007 08:52:51 AM
Hey asshole reviewer, did your mommy spank you too hard?
I see chrth is running out of things to analyze by BadMrWonka	Mar 29th, 2007 08:56:56 AM
since Heroes is on break. I was going to write, "Roy Munson only lost his HAND, not his arm!"...I'm feeling it too, brother... also, my bowling team is too good, now. the other decent teams left the league after winter season cos they were tired of being dominated.
Akerman by Cepper	Mar 29th, 2007 08:57:12 AM
To save someone else the trip to IMDB, she was the hot slutty wife of the mechanic Freakshow in Harold and Kumar. (Why anyone would mention that Kudrow show in trying to identify an actor is beyond me.)
Manly female comics by Banky the Hack	Mar 29th, 2007 09:30:11 AM
Uh, Maria Bamford and Laura Kightlinger aren't manly...rowr Laura Kightlinger.
Three Strikes Rule (a modest proposal) by ThrowawayVote	Mar 29th, 2007 09:37:18 AM
I haven't really been impressed with anything past "There's Something About Mary". Yet whenever I see a new Farrelly trailer, in big letters I am told: "FROM THE GUYS WHO BROUGHT YOU THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY..." Maybe Hollywood could come up with a 3 strikes rule. If you have a big hit, and then can't make another hit in the three next movies, you can't ride the coat-tails of the first hit anymore. No more "From the Director of..." I just think the Farrellys hit a tremendous uppercut to the chin, and have been throwing haymakers ever since.
Malin Akerman by HueyFreeman	Mar 29th, 2007 09:44:52 AM
Wasn't that the hot little number who was married to the Jesus Freak with all the hideous boils? I've been waiting to see more of her.
Stuck on Dumber by Grammaton Cleric Binks	Mar 29th, 2007 09:45:05 AM
Both were awesome. You just never think of scotch tape the same way again. Okay,true story.. so my wife and I left the theater after Dumb and Dumber. In the parking lot she tells me "That movie was dumb." Thanks for the newsflash honey. By the way, Texas Chainsaw Massacre has a teensy bit of violence in it.
Malin Akerman from "Harold and Kumar" by HueyFreeman	Mar 29th, 2007 09:46:15 AM
Forgot to mention that. Wasn't she from Harold & Kumar? Wasn't that the hot little number who was married to the Jesus Freak with all the hideous boils? I've been waiting to see more of her.
The Comeback is a very, very funny show by CarmillaVonDoom	Mar 29th, 2007 09:48:31 AM
Those of you who like Curb Your Enthusiasm would appreciate this milder female-centric take on celebrity. Oh, and this reviewer is a misogynistic douchebag.
I'll give you Rosie, but leave Ellen alone. by StovetopStuffin'	Mar 29th, 2007 09:54:00 AM
She's hilarious, and she's got Portia to boot!
They made Kingpin? Okay, then. Michael Duncan was good. by JackPumpkinhead	Mar 29th, 2007 09:58:37 AM
But they also made some of the worst anticomedies in the last (or this) century - Irene, Jones... urgh. This one, just as the others, should fit right in with the "taste" of the audience that makes Wild Hogs and Norbit a success.
Count me in by Carnotaur3	Mar 29th, 2007 10:10:26 AM
If it is as good as Dumb and Dumber I'm there!
Malin Akerman was in Harold and Kumar by jimmy_009	Mar 29th, 2007 10:29:47 AM
She was that mutants hot wife. Can we start getting reviews without jagoff statements like "I’ll be skull-fucked-in-the-ass" and "because I’m not a fucking vagina". Guess what, you are a fucking vagina. No one thinks you're funny. Not only that, since you (and half the reviewers on this site) insist on putting 'gems' like that, we also don't think you can form a cohesive thought without reverting back to 8th grade. Take a queue from Moriarty and just review the damn movie.
We're Tiptoe-ing Around the Obvious by Aquatarkusman	Mar 29th, 2007 10:34:07 AM
Ben Stiller?! What is he now, 56?
You should check out the original by Roy Neary	Mar 29th, 2007 10:36:40 AM
It's dated a bit (1972) But Cybill Shepard has never been hotter. It's also got a hilarious performance by Charles Grodin. I'ts one of those movies that most people have never heard of but it's definitely worth a look. When I heard the Brothers were remaking it, It sounded like a perfect fit.
This reviewer swears he's not "a fucking vagina"... by Lance Rock	Mar 29th, 2007 10:44:14 AM
But most certainly proves himself a douchebag after that statement! Way to go!
Lance Rock by PotSmokinAlien	Mar 29th, 2007 10:56:20 AM
we are of the same mind, sir
Throwawayvote... by BitterMan23	Mar 29th, 2007 11:07:07 AM
What about John McTiernan? He's still "The director of Die Hard".
No Charles Grodin though.... by Jedibobster	Mar 29th, 2007 11:08:35 AM
I must be somewhat in the minority then, as I don't have too much affection for Dumb and Dumber or Irene, but more recently have been charmed and amused by Shallow Hal, Stuck on You and Fever Pitch. These are movies with both a heart and a funny bone. I haven't seen Osmosis Jones yet, which as a Bill Murray fan is a bit criminal thinking about it. Anyhoo, oin the basis of the aforemention threesome I will most likely go see this at the cinema.
Hey now!! That's an insult to Douche Bags!! by Douche Baggins	Mar 29th, 2007 11:15:06 AM
This fellow is clearly not a Douche Bag, maybe more of a Colostomy Bag.
Shallow Hall kinda was a "drama w/ comedy thrown in" by oceansized	Mar 29th, 2007 11:19:32 AM
A rather brilliant one I believe. It made me laugh AND think about how I look at women. I can see how someone expecting a 'Dumb and Dumber' or 'Mary' style comedy would've been dissappointed in it. I really think it would be more highly regarded if it WASN'T by the Farrrelly's, and hence avoided those comparisons.
Malin gets nekkid in both H&KGTWC and The Comeback. by Lenny Nero	Mar 29th, 2007 11:43:56 AM
I also think she's hilarious to boot.
Let the reviewer review by ConeSpinner	Mar 29th, 2007 12:21:04 PM
who cares if drops a "vagina" reference in there? it's his right. he went and saw the damn movie none of us have seen and is taking the time to tell us about it. he can write whatever the hell he wants and we get to read it. so what if it wasn't written be ebert? at least it gives us an idea of what the movie is about. douchebags
"Hey, I love Osmosis Jones!" by Osmosis Jones	Mar 29th, 2007 12:25:04 PM
Why, I didn't know you cared...
Conespinner, have you read this talkback before? by oceansized	Mar 29th, 2007 12:36:44 PM
It's ostensibly for talking about movies. But it's just as much, if not more, about anonymous shit-talking.
sounds like a good idea by council estate scumbag	Mar 29th, 2007 12:37:30 PM
and if they get the editing right they could have a hit on their hands. they've churned out cowshit for too long now, and its time they went back to their classic period. dont wanna sit thru another irene. that pissed me off. i shoulda walked out, but it took me too long to sneak in. wanna check out this Malin Akerman bird tho. sounds fit. i agree on that dory bird from nemo and the fat one who i cant remember what the fuck she's been in. they're shit. the US equivalent of jo brand or victoria wood. fuck dat. period, bra and tampon jokes. hilarious. osmosis jones was fucking shit. cartoon bits were funny tho.
good points, oceansized by council estate scumbag	Mar 29th, 2007 12:40:02 PM
"really think it would be more highly regarded if it WASN'T by the Farrrelly's, and hence avoided those comparisons."- i thought the same thing, fella when i watched it. i was expected some hilarious shit, but instead it made me think. want a bad film, just diffferent from wot i was expecting.
You forgot the (fat) mother of them all: by Lost Prophet	Mar 29th, 2007 12:47:41 PM
dawn french. Her list of crimes against comedy is too long for words. i'll start with The Vicar Of Dibley, which should be enough for a public flogging and then gently move on to some of the sketches she did with Jennifer Saunders: YES, YOU ARE A FAT BITCH. WE GET IT. IT'S NOT FUNNY.
Forgot those fucking chocolate orange odds by Lost Prophet	Mar 29th, 2007 12:49:16 PM
Fat, unfunny, useless, talentless cow.
Reviewer has some, um, issues... by Harry Weinstein	Mar 29th, 2007 01:02:21 PM
People who feel the need to announce to the world that they're "not vaginas" are usually trying to convince themselves more than anyone else. And usually, they're the only ones buying it. Maybe it's not the case here. First time for everything.
The Farrelly movies are all too long. by Barry Egan	Mar 29th, 2007 01:14:14 PM
They should run no more than 90 - 100 minutes.
He meant to write "I'm not fucking A vagina." by thelivingdoll	Mar 29th, 2007 01:29:12 PM
Sssssssmmmmmack!
I agree that their latest have sucked . . . by Nice Marmot	Mar 29th, 2007 01:44:42 PM
. . . but there was more than enough in Irene to crack me up.
'Irene' is underrated by performingmonkey	Mar 29th, 2007 02:32:39 PM
Me, Myself and Irene is fucking excellent. Shallow Hal wasn't THAT bad but could have done with more jokes (people just can't handle that they were aiming a little differently with that one) and it needed some fat trimming out of it yes, that IS a fucking pun, you asswipes.
Fever Pitch was damn good by 12-GAUGE	Mar 29th, 2007 02:54:12 PM
Not an unadulterated FARRELLY!!! Bros. movie, but taken on it's own, it was an above average rom. comedy--an improvement from Stuck on You, which also wasn't altogether bad.
"from the twisted minds of the Farrelly Brothers comes" by skimn	Mar 29th, 2007 02:56:03 PM
Just doesn't have the same pull as it did about ten years ago. Maybe if they eased off on the "Handicapable" message that had become a little heavy handed in some of their films, and got back to being tastlessly funny.
Damn you Michael Bay by Damnyou	Mar 29th, 2007 03:22:53 PM
Damn you Michael Bay
ben stiller by rdsxfan8	Mar 29th, 2007 04:15:45 PM
why cant ben stiller go back and make more movies like "the zero effect"?
"I sat four seats away from a Farrelly" by Seph_J	Mar 29th, 2007 04:26:45 PM
sounds like a metaphor to me.... but a metaphor for what?
stuck on you was good by LarryTheCableGuy	Mar 29th, 2007 04:36:42 PM
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skull fucked in the ass? by dopepope	Mar 29th, 2007 04:47:42 PM
Can't be done. Skull fucking refers to the penetration of ones cranial orifices. Unless he's got his head up his ass, it's just not possible. Perhaps he means an actual skull getting shoved up his ass and gyrated. Then maybe.
This reviewer annoyed me.... by jollysleeve	Mar 29th, 2007 04:58:33 PM
...I hate it when AICN profiles reviewers who try so desperately to sound "cool." It's not cool. And it doesn't make me "relate." It's just grating.
Sounds promising. by dregmobile	Mar 29th, 2007 06:40:00 PM
I love all of the Farrelly's works and this is sounding very promising.
THESE FUCKSTICKS... by WISEBLOOD	Mar 29th, 2007 06:41:37 PM
make the most criminally unfunny movies I can think of, aside from Adam Sandler. I've tried to like them, and aside from one or two funny things per film, they just SUCK. It's as if they aren't smart enough to be funny...their flicks are like watching high school drama class improvs.
OH I FORGOT... by WISEBLOOD	Mar 29th, 2007 06:44:18 PM
Kingpin was pretty funny. Thats about as good as it gets.
Awesome review by Tired Eagle	Mar 29th, 2007 07:02:55 PM
I can't believe you guys are ripping the reviewer. I thought it was great. Funny stuff. Good review. Oh, and I actually liked Stuck On You. Agree that Fever Pitch and a few other recent Farrelly Bros' outings have been pretty bad.
Dumb & Dumber, Kingpin, Mary by Quake II	Mar 29th, 2007 07:17:53 PM
The only 3 movies these guy have made that were actually funny. And Something About Mary had moments of struggling for humor. They PEAKED with Kingpin. It's too bad.
Comb-overs by MovieJazz251	Mar 29th, 2007 07:34:35 PM
We need more Comb-overs that go awry in movies.
Dandelo is a nancy boy trying to be a man. by Bronx Cheer	Mar 29th, 2007 08:05:29 PM
All that chest-thumping manly-man crap isn't fooling anyone. He gives himself away when he writes with bullshit machismo "I’m not a fucking vagina, but Ms. Akerman has my total respect." I think he might have been trying for funny, or snarky, by following the misogynism with the very PC "Ms. Akerman has my total respect." If you respected her, you wouldn't be so violently anti-female. While I thought much of the review showed Dandelo had given the film some serious thought, so much of the review was drowning in so much faux-manliness that it was unreadable. The funniest thing to me was how "dandelo" seems to suggest "dandelion," which to me screams...PLANT. Boys and men, show some fucking respect for women, and knock off all the posturing. And maybe you'll have a happy life.
Wasn't this supposed to be called "Seven Day Itch"? by thebearovingian	Mar 29th, 2007 09:16:06 PM
Wasn't it?
JOLLYSLEEVE... by Napolean Solo	Mar 29th, 2007 10:02:42 PM
Yet you read every "grating" word... and you constantly do. I for the record hate when AICN talkbackers wait for reviews to be posted just so they can read every word of them, only to post how "grating" a read it was and how "uncool" the reviewer is. Yet... you'll be here reading tomorrow... and the day after... and the day after that. I actually liked that review a great deal, informative, witty, and concise.
napolean you are spot on... by slappy jones	Mar 29th, 2007 10:49:30 PM
god it gets tiring to see the same dickheads complain day after day about the same shit...."you call this news i posted this last week""or this was on cinemablend 3 weeks ago"..."harry just give us a straight review and stop giving us your life story" etc etc etc and on and on...the same fucking shit every fucking day..do you motherfuckers just cut and paste the same posts every day or do you try to come up with old and unimaginative ways to say the same fucking thing repeatedly....if you don't like it why are you here every fucking day complaining about about the same tired old horseshit?? shut the fuck up.oh and anyone who has the time to go back through old stories and search the time harry said something which contradicts something he is saying now needs to turn off the computer and go for a walk outside.
Damn you Michael Bay by MCMLXXVII	Mar 29th, 2007 11:57:49 PM
Damn you Michael Bay
Movie sounds shit. by Allfather Starr	Mar 30th, 2007 12:47:49 AM
Review was shit. Michael Bay Denis is shit. Fuck this, I'm off to the pub.
Okay, this sounds like dreck. by AnnoyYou	Mar 30th, 2007 03:28:55 AM
In the original film, the main character (Grodin) marries a fairly unlovely, sort of boring, whiny Jewish girl (Jeanie Berlin, Elaine May's kid) because he wants to get laid. Big mistake. While he's on his honeymoon he sees the Shiksa Queen of his dreams (Cybill Shepherd -- yeah, she was cute once) and falls madly in love. He dumps his wife rather cruelly (she's not nuts, just dull, and doesn't deserve this cruelty) and marries the SQ. But ha-ha -- she turns out to be even more boring than his first wife! Moral of the story: be careful what you wish for, etc. This remake, however, sounds about as profound as all the other Farelly films, and the change in the narrative sounds completely gratuitous and ever so slightly misogynistic.
"(fat) mother of them all" by council estate scumbag	Mar 30th, 2007 05:17:31 AM
forgot about the great heifer that is Ms Dawn French. she was funny for five minutes at some point in the early nineties i think. Vicar of dibley is okay-average (it used to have its moments). it doesnt piss me off. what pisses me off is french and saunders. sloppy show. they simply recreate some famous scene from a film and add no gags or different spin on it. (a bit like recent episodes of family guy). it shit. she's shit. she should go on celebrity fit (fat) club. lose 18 stone at least. the fat funny girl routine has gotten old. way old.
she was never ok by Lost Prophet	Mar 30th, 2007 07:09:15 AM
the only way Dibly can be remotely watchable is if you wire your temples into the mains. It is that bad. Look here's some guy that stutters, and another that smells, and some old fat tory twat, oh- look a few submorons, and DAWN FRENCH AS A FEMALE VICAR. Inspired. I think not. It isn't as bad as either F&S or the fucking chocolate orange ad. Mind you, neither is being fisted by King Kong.
Napoleon, what are you talking about? by jollysleeve	Mar 30th, 2007 07:25:38 AM
Of course I "read every grating word." I'm not psychic. How would I know to call the review grating, if I hadn't? Besides, isn't it possible I read the review because I'm interested in the movie itself, and not because I'm a big fan of the reviewer? Re: "...and you constantly do." Uh, what? Do you know me? Do I know you? Even within the context of these boards, do you recall one single post I've ever made? You sort of picked the wrong guy to single out to kick-off your soap-box speech. Next time choose a poster who participates in more than 4 talkbacks a month. You also sort of picked the wrong review to use as the platform for your argument. Believe it or not, I've been known to get on AICN posters as well, for being so predictably negative about everything. In fact, I'm more apt to do that, than to criticize the writing in an article. (Again, you really did single out the wrong poster here.) But come on, this review? Witty?
"Dibly" by council estate scumbag	Mar 30th, 2007 08:36:55 AM
i guess you might be right when you sum it up like that. it sounds fucking shit. the only times i've watched it, i've been drunk around the family christmas dinner table. so it may have appeared funny to me. fat lady tries to get pummelled by the geezer from casualty ( i think it was that)- funny secnario...when drunk. once seen sober, its not so funny. still cant believe old lenny henry (who he himself lost his funny gene 25 years ago) fucks that shit. must be like fucking a no 27 double decker bus. he's a crazy bastard!
I thought he divorced her chubby self by Lost Prophet	Mar 30th, 2007 08:39:05 AM
years ago. They should stay married. Keep all that un-funniness locked away in one place. Stop it spreading.
"This reviewer LOVES women. Not." i agree by council estate scumbag	Mar 30th, 2007 08:40:35 AM
whats the reviewers problem with birds? speaks about them like they were pieces of meat. did his aunt fiona finger-fuck him in his asshole when he was little or something, or slam his willy in a vice? he needs to recognize. love and respect the birds, fella.
"chubby self" by council estate scumbag	Mar 30th, 2007 08:46:19 AM
shit. did they they? that one passed me by then cos i thought they was still married. last i saw of her she was posing naked for some painting (yeah, true, all 38 stone of her) and it was all over the papers but that was years ago or at least it felt like it. i agree that these two humourless comedians should keep that shit locked away like rabies- the comedians code is 'humourless comedians often go hungry'. as they say...Dawn French gotta eat!!!!! infact no she doesnt,..she's got enough supplies in those bellies of hers to last 7 years at least, AND feed the 40 starving people of Tower hamlets.
You know Comic Relief, Scumbag? by Lost Prophet	Mar 30th, 2007 08:55:32 AM
It would be a fucking relief to never see any of the fuckers associated with that again. It used to be the curse of the comic relief single killed a music career (honestly, look it up- for example, remeber G-G-G-Gareth Gates?) but now I hope that it kills all their careers. Another point about Dawn French, She was cast in one of the Harry Potter films as THE FAT LADY. And she pissed me off in that as well. This is how Britain survives the Rage virus. We tie Dawn French up and just throw her to the infected. by the time they have eaten their way through her we could have built a fucking boat and sailed to Australia.

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