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DVD Along Came Polly (Full Screen Edition)
Opposites are forced to attract in Along Came Polly, a dose of featherweight fluff that could've been better and could've been worse--surely no pairing of Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston can be a complete waste of time, right? Faint praise indeed, but fans of these mainstream funny-folk will enjoy this movie as a lazy-weekend distraction. Ben's a newlywed insurance risk-assessment analyst whose wife (Debra Messing, in a throwaway role) betrays him on their honeymoon. His uptight, play-it-safe lifestyle (which includes acute aversion to germs and irritable bowel syndrome) makes him seemingly incompatible with the spontaneous, free-spirited Polly (Aniston), but writer-director John Hamburg (whose writing credits include the previous Stiller hits Meet the Parents and Zoolander) is determined to give them at least the appearance of romantic potential. No such luck. You will, however, get a few laughs from supporting players Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bryan Brown, and Alec Baldwin. --Jeff Shannon
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Enjoyable but Slight
As a cute romantic comedy, ALONG CAME POLLY breezes along on the personalities of Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston with a few laugh out-loud scenes usually missing from such fluff. Both actors make as much as their characters and situations as they can, and Stiller continues his sometimes excruciating exercises in humiliation that made MEET THE PARENTS such a hit.
But the second half of the film falters since the suspense of its plot--will Stiller take back the wife who was unfaithful to him (on their honeymoon!)?--feels contrived and ridiculous. The audience would quickly turn on such a spineless man.
There are worse "comedies" out there these days, so ALONG CAME POLLY is worth watching for a few laughs.
Cute
This movie was so cute! Ben Stiller, is the paranoid little guy which makes the movie hillarious! A greatttt cute film!
a classic piece of movie dialogue
Silly and ultimately pointless but generally amusing throughout with some top lines that had me laughing out loud. Philip Seymour Hoffman was his usual awesome best and had this killer exchange with Ben Stiller:
- Dude, no this is serious, i just sharted.
- I don't know what that means
- I tried to fart & a little sh** came out. I just sharted. Now lets go.
Also, I started fancying Jennifer Anniston about half way through which worried me a bit. A lot actually. Mind you, she is a big Jeff Buckley and Nick Drake fan so she can't be that bad.
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