Safe Men (1998)
Directed by John Hamburg
Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves in conflict with their professional colleagues. Romantic interest is added by the daughter of the underworld leader who won't date the men she knows are gangsters.
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Director and co-writer John Hamburg (whose 1998 comedy Safe Men is absolutely deserving of a rediscovery) has a maximalist approach to his editing.
Directed with freewheeling, improvisational flair by a very much on safe ground John Hamburg (who penned Meet The Parents and helmed I Love You, Man, Along Came Polly, and Safe Men), the best thing about the very good Why Him? is its winning generosity of spirit.
Best of all, though, is the tart, sharply observed script by director John Hamburg, co-writer of such hits as "Meet the Parents" and writer-director of the underrated gem and 1998 Sundance charmer "Safe Men." Hamburg has a gift for absurd humor grounded in real life and, let's face it, sometimes that includes passing gas.
John Hamburg ("Safe Men"), cowriter of Stiller starrers "Meet the Parents" and "Zoolander," also takes up the directorial reins for "Along Came Polly," an OK romantic comedy goosed up by supporting players Alec Baldwin, Hank Azaria and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Moreover, writer/director John Hamburg (Safe Men, Meet the Parents) throws in a ton of the expected pseudo-Farrelly Brother gags from a hairy, sweaty, shirtless guy to a blind ferret that keeps running into walls and something called a "shart" that's better left unexplained.