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The plot is cribbed from The Blues Brothers, a clever ploy to rope in the same demographic that transferred their childhood Stoogemania to Jake and Elwood Blues in the 1980s.
The plot is a combination of The Blues Brothers and Fletch with a little “Jersey Shore” thrown in for … well, there’s never a good reason to include “Jersey Shore” is there?
Somewhat akin to Jake and Elwood needing to raise money to save an orphanage in "The Blues Brothers," our dimwitted trio -- played by Chris Diamantopoulos, Sean Hayes and Will Sasso -- go out into the real world to find enough funds to keep their orphanage open.
But in this film, they lazily borrow the premise of “The Blues Brothers” (they have to raise money to keep the orphanage that has been their home since they were abandoned there as infants decades ago) and become entangled in a murder plot and “Jersey Shore.”
They also blatantly lift from the plots of both " The Blues Brothers " and " Beavis and Butthead Do America " (the story has the Stooges trying to raise money to save their beloved orphanage, and running afoul of a contract-killing scheme in the dumb process), neither of which is an entirely inapposite comic model, so that's OK.
You would think that after having been wrestling with the project for than a decade that the Farrellys and co-writer Mike Cerrone might have been able to come up with a narrative that didn't consist of roughly 70% old bits and pieces cribbed directly from routines seen in the original Stooges shorts and the remaining 30% ported over from "The Blues Brothers."
Instead of exhausting me with joke after joke, like There’s Something About Mary, Road Trip made me wait for every joke, and I dutifully anticipated each one.
It certainly doesn't match the genre-establishing status of "National Lampoon's Animal House" or the giddy originality of "There's Something About Mary."
"Road Trip's" tasteless "There's Something about Mary" moments comes in two parts.
Determining who will be offended by Road Trip isn't difficult - anyone who was comfortable throughout There's Something About Mary and American Pie won't have any trouble with this movie.
It's these tentative ventures into There's Something About Mary territory that fall flat as the film gets pinned down in that barren DMZ that stretches between wit and slapstick.
She's Out of My League (2010)
Directed by Jim Field Smith
influenced by There's Something About Mary (1998), Fever Pitch (2005)
Plot
Too bad the lewd, rude, R-rated comedy’s too hellbent on becoming the next “There’s Something About Mary” or Judd Apatow offshoot to realize it’s finest quality is its tender heart.
The heart of the strongest comedies comes from out of real life situations we all can relate to, which is probably why movies like "Meet the Parents" and "There's Something About Mary" have become so hugely popular and why so many movies have tried their best to emulate them.
If you combined Knocked Up with There’s Something About Mary and merged both into the scatterbrained strategies of Sex Drive writers Sean Anders and John Morris, you’d have some idea of how oddly disjointed yet ultimately satisfying She’s Our of My League is.
Your bar conversations become American Pie meets Knocked Up meets There's Something About Mary .
By mixing the sweetness of " Say Anything " with the silliness of " There's Something About Mary ," " She's Out of My League " works as well as it does thanks to a real sense of heart and a killer ensemble.
She's Out of My League is perhaps the funniest film since There's Something About Mary.
They aren't even as inspired as Kevin McAllister's booby-trapped revenge against burglars Harry and Marv in 1990's "Home Alone."
Off the top of my head, the last time a movie nailed consistent slapstick was the finale of Home Alone.
The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005)
Directed by Judd Apatow
influenced Hall Pass (2011), There's Something About Mary (1998)
Themes Plot
The awkward combination of gross-out gags and an almost sugary tone is no surprise, coming from writing/directing team Bobby and Peter Farrelly (There’s Something About Mary), and the crude humour and raunchy dialogue will delight fans of Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen (admirers of The 40-Year-Old Virgin will not be disappointed).
This latest bit of naughty cinema never matches the heights of Judd Apatow’s The 40-Year-Old Virgin or the Farrellys’ own There’s Something About Mary, although it comes close in a few scenes.
It reminded me of “There's Something About Mary” - a movie that was not for everyone, but was so smart that I didn't care that I was laughing over fart jokes.
Think "There's Something About Mary" magnified tenfold ?
It tackles some taboo subjects with hilarious candor and has some of the best unthinkable physical humor since “There’s Something About Mary.”
The storyline is a cross between American Pie and There's Something about Mary.
Virtual unknown Chris Diamantopoulous, Sean Hayes (2008's " Soul Men "), and Will Sasso (2010's " Life as We Know It ")?as well as child counterparts Skyler Gisondo (2007's " Halloween "), newcomer Lance Chantiles-Wertz, and Robert Capron (2011's " Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules ")?have perfected the looks and mannerisms of the original Moe, Larry and Curly right down to the most subtle of actions and facial expressions.
In a bid for adoption engineered by Sister Rosemary (Jennifer Hudson, "Sex and the City 2") to only include the trio but which is 'crashed' by young Teddy (Jake Peck), Moe (Skyler Gisondo, 2007's "Halloween") gets the nod (after an 'American Idol' style fakeout from adoptive dad Mr. Harter (Stephen Collins, TV's '7th Heaven')), but when asked what he wants for his 'birthday,' wishes for his two friends.
American Pie (1999)
Directed by Paul Weitz
influenced by There's Something About Mary (1998), The Three Stooges (2012)
Themes Plot
Herz and Weitz have decided to teach us a few things about getting some - namely that if you can't actually remember how awful it was not to be having sex in school, copping other movies' memories of it is a good plan B. Their film makes the inevitable nods to "Porky's," "Revenge of the Nerds," "Meatballs" and John Hughes, while aiming for the crassness of "There's Something About Mary" - which, never mind the haters, is proving to be the feel-good movie of nearly any year.
While I'm sure its makers would love to see their film compared to last summer's surprise hit "There's Something About Mary," especially since both trade on jokes about autoeroticism and toilet humor, "American Pie" is to "Something About Mary" what Homer and Jethro are to Aristotle.
Jim (Jason Biggs)’s storyline also borrows heavily from the Farrelly’s movies (mostly “There’s Something About Mary”) and various other teen flicks like “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”, but at least it’s hilarious.
Its most outlandish scenes do not surpass envelope-stretching sequences from 1998's There's Something About Mary and Happiness.
The film is likely to entertain teens who are already thinking about sex, and its gross-out humor will appeal to fans of There's Something About Mary.
I actually find this give-and-take treatment of sexual longing preferable to the single-minded fetishizing of the nearly perfect, underwear-clad girl-next-door-glimpsed-through-the-window endorsed by There's Something About Mary.
Green Book (2018)
Directed by Peter Farrelly
influenced by There's Something About Mary (1998), Kingpin (1996), The Three Stooges (2012), Stuck on You (2003)
Green Book marks the flying-solo debut of director Peter Farrelly, best known for the yucky, gross-out, bro-fest comedies he made with his brother, Bobby—Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and There’s Something About Mary.
Farrelly has long been a master of the comedic road trip (see Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin, and There’s Something About Mary), but Green Book expands human interactions beyond the bizarre and grotesque.
Now that that’s off my chest, let me tell you about a crowd-pleasing odd-couple comedy directed by Peter Farrelly, who usually works with his brother Bobby on movies such as Shallow Hal, There's Something About Mary, and Dumb and Dumber To. Green Book stars Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali in a story about a trip through the American South taken by Ali’s Dr. Don Shirley, an accomplished pianist, and Mortensen's Tony Vallelunga, a Bronx-based Italian-American with racial attitudes rooted in the 1950s.
Green Book is a big and promising departure for Peter Farrelly, co-writer and co-director (with brother Bobby) of raunch-fests including Dumb and Dumber, Me, Myself & Irene and There’s Something About Mary .
But pointing out that Mortensen and Ali are solid is what’s expected; the real surprise here is director Peter Farrelly, who’s best known for comedies like Dumb and Dumber and There’s Something About Mary.
It is the first solo release from director Peter Farrelly, who previously worked with his brother Bobby on the raucous comedies Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary .
Greg Mottola, who made the terrific Manhattan picaresque "The Daytrippers," directs "Superbad" with his characteristically light touch, even if it's used in the service of filthy sight gags, endless profanity and an inordinate obsession with bodily fluids (the ante started with the hair gel gag in "There's Something About Mary" has now been upped to menstrual blood).
The resulting discussion of male genital topography ("It looks like a division sign," offers Evan) is surely the most humorous since Ben Stiller zipped up prematurely in There's Something About Mary.
These things are almost always ill-advised—the shelves at Netflix distribution centers are bulging with unwanted copies of The Little Rascals (1994).
After all, the whole notion of hiring contemporary actors to try to revive an act that succeeded as much as a result of the original performers and the comedic timing and rapport that they developed through years on the stage and in front of the movie cameras just seemed weird at best and potentially disastrous at worst, as anyone who saw the 1994 revival of "The Little Rascals" or that ersatz Laurel & Hardy feature featuring Bronson Pinchot as Laurel and someone else as Hardy, a creation so bizarre and unsettling to behold that when I stumbled upon it on cable one bleak morning completely unawares as to its existence, I thought I was genuinely cracking up for good.
His thing is such that it causes him some physical discomfort in a long, drawn-out, unfunny “stuck junk” bit half adapted from “There’s Something About Mary.”
Imagine a version of the classic scene in There’s Something about Mary where Ben Stiller gets his penis stuck in his zipper except it’s in no way funny, and you have idea of the level Baywatch is operating at.
Ronnie’s penis incident pales in comparison to There’s Something About Mary because there’s no surprise.
Don't expect this pic to start a nationwide trend of Yes Days any more than 2011's Hall Pass inspired a legion of wives to give their man-child husbands holidays from their wedding vows.
With very few exceptions ( The Sweetest Thing with Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate), any women in the mix are co-stars with males ( There's Something About Mary Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller ) or part of an ensemble ( Reno 911!: Miami with Bridesmaids costar Wendi McLendon-Covey and others).
A truly funny sex comedy, like There’s Something About Mary, doesn’t rely heavily on toilet humor or stretch a barely funny sight gag for too long.
Since American Pie and Farrelly brothers' hits such as There's Something About Mary, the pitfalls of love and sex have been steadily upstaged by the cinema of bodily embarrassment.
Occasionally the set pieces are as sharp as the Stooges are dumb, thanks to the rough craftsmanship of directors Del Lord and Charley Chase and writers Felix Adler and Clyde Bruckman — a famous gagman for three decades, and co-director of Buster Keaton’s immortal silent comedy The General.
Along the way, a string of big names were briefly attached, including Jim Carrey, Hank Azaria, Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn, which is curious, since the dour Penn hasn't been intentionally funny since Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Virtual unknown Chris Diamantopoulous, Sean Hayes (2008's " Soul Men "), and Will Sasso (2010's " Life as We Know It ")?as well as child counterparts Skyler Gisondo (2007's " Halloween "), newcomer Lance Chantiles-Wertz, and Robert Capron (2011's " Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules ")?have perfected the looks and mannerisms of the original Moe, Larry and Curly right down to the most subtle of actions and facial expressions.
This is Larry (Sean Hayes: Soul Men , Igor ), Curly (Will Sasso: Life as We Know It ), and Moe (Chris Diamantopoulos), and screenwriter-director Farrelly brothers Peter and Bobby ( The Heartbreak Kid , Shallow Hal ) figure they can attach a plot to this -- about Sofia Vergara ( New Year's Eve , Happy Feet Two ) hiring them to kill her husband, holy god make it stop -- and it will be acceptable entertainment to those who have achieved control of their bowels.
We're the Millers (2013)
Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber
influenced by There's Something About Mary (1998)
There’s lightning wit, meta self-awareness and Farrelly Bros. level (There’s Something About Mary) testicle humour that guarantee you’ll get your money’s worth.
And there's little doubt that a scene featuring a tarantula crawling up a teen's shorts will result in an exaggerated genitalia view that would make the Farrelly Brothers ("There's Something About Mary") proud.
Ranting at her hilariously sardonic teacher and reluctant confident Mr Bruner (Woody Harrelson, having the most screen fun he’s had this side of Kingpin ), Nadine reveals a clutter of genuine tragedies (including the death of her dad) and perceived atrocities, most grievously the recent coupling between her popular jock older brother Darian ( Everybody Wants Some ’s Blake Jenner) and her long-time best pal Krista (Haley Lu Richardson).
Step Brothers (2008)
Directed by Adam McKay
influenced by There's Something About Mary (1998), Hall Pass (2011)
Visuals
A piece of male anatomy that Ben Stiller made famous in "There's Something About Mary" gets a return close-up here.
When Brennan runs to rub his testicles on Dale’s drum set, it generates the same howls of laughter that "There’s Something About Mary" induced in young audiences unprepared for its similar visual gag of naughty bits.
But their quest escalates when they hook up with player extraordinaire Coakley – an eye-popping performance by the always dependable Richard Jenkins (Let Me In, Step Brothers) as a kind of sleazy wizard (imagine Obi-Wan Kenobi in a T-shirt wielding a vengeful boner instead of a lightsaber).
Wedding Crashers (2005)
Directed by David Dobkin
influenced by There's Something About Mary (1998), The Heartbreak Kid (2007)
Themes Characters
That's far more than a raunchy summer comedy needs to do, and that's why the film will, like the Farrellys' "There's Something About Mary," transcend the mucky genre from whence it emerges.
David Dobkin’s “Wedding Crashers” was meant to be this summer’s “There’s Something About Mary,” but after an initial promising first reel, the picture soon descends into a maudlin, unconvincing and disappointing romantic comedy.
Like Old School or There’s Something About Mary, it’s the kind of picture where you’ll want to rehash all the outrageously funny moments with your friends.
Much has been made of Wedding Crashers’ bid to reinvigorate the R-rated comedy, a genre that’s lain mostly dormant since There’s Something About Mary.
But it’s Malin Akerman as the wife from Hell who ultimately steals the show, delivering the best psycho chick performance since Isla Fisher in “Wedding Crashers" and channeling the same happy-go-lucky charisma that made Cameron Diaz a star.