Shallow Hal: Critic Reviews

85%

MovieWeb: 2 reviews

51%

RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Rita Kempley Washington Post (Top Critic)

20

An ill-conceived, slovenly executed and disingenuous comedy.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

20

Makes the case for restricting the Farrellys to mere gross-out movies.
Full Review » 11 years ago
J. Hoberman Village Voice (Top Critic)

Not only light on laughs but discomfitingly didactic in its disgust.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Peter Howell Toronto Star (Top Critic)

The movie's valuable message that we must look beyond physical appearances to find the heart within ... is drowned out by the din of loathsome idiots mocking physical appearances.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

30

The film itself is little more than a series of fat jokes.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

60

Romantic comedy is pretty tame for Farrelly Bros.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

42

The Farrellys take an artistic step backward with this soft, disappointingly sentimental comedy about the true nature of beauty; they seem to have forgotten their roots in the outrageous and gross-out.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid

[An] insulting new comedy from Bobby and Peter Farrelly.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Tom Grealis RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

60

There's just about enough charm and laughs here to keep Farrelly fans happy. Even the fat ones.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Jeffrey Chen Window to the Movies

70

In delivering their message, the Farrelly Brothers seem to have compromised their nothing-is-sacred comedy spirit, but at least their hearts are in the right place.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Mark Palermo Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

When the final act descends into preachiness, it's nearly earned the indulgence.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jason Clark Matinee Magazine

75

Shallow Hal is the most endearing portrait of outcasts since last year's Ghost World.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Betty Jo Tucker ReelTalk Movie Reviews

No comedy classic, but the Farrelly Brothers are on the right track here by bringing heart into their filmmaking. 'Shallow Hal's' deep message surprised me.
Full Review » 10 years ago
James Sanford Kalamazoo Gazette

although the ad campaign makes it appear the movie is an outrageous attack on the obese, in truth "Hal" saves its sharpest jabs for the small-minded and mean-spirited.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Audrey Rock-Richardson Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)

59

It has moments of sweetness, and moments of hilarious comedy; but when it comes down to it, the tendency to use gross-out tactics makes it hardly worth sitting through.
Full Review » 10 years ago
John J. Puccio DVDTown.com

40

While saying that appearances don't matter, the Farrellys prove that appearances are everything.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jorge Avila Andrade Moviola

50

Amor Ciego pretende ser moralista, lo que choca con los Farrelly, para quienes significa un retroceso en su carrera, que de por si no tiene nada de extraordinaria.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Mark Dujsik Mark Reviews Movies

63

Don't expect me to say this too often, but I hope the Farrellys maintain their immaturity, if only because they do it so well.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Alex Ramirez Cinenganos

si lo que buscan son guarradas gratuitas y humor corporal, quiza salgan contrariados, o hasta algo confundidos con el tono moral y la idea central que expresa la pelicula.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jeremiah Kipp Matinee Magazine

75

Disguised as a gross-out comedy simply in order to get made, it's a heartfelt portrait of living in our own skin.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope

75

This time they've added some heart and insight and cut back on the gross-out humor.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Neil Smith BBC

60

Hilarious in parts, sickeningly sentimental in others, Shallow Hal has the Farrellys trying to expand their range, with only mildly successful results.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

63

The Farrelly Brothers retreat to a gentler mode--and, in the process, a far less funny one.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Doris Toumarkine Film Journal International

A comedy that is as lame in its storytelling as it is in its physical execution.
Full Review » 10 years ago
James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk

75

tackles the beauty mythos with both humor and sensitivity that may surprise those who think only of body-fluid jokes when they think of the Farrellys
Full Review » 10 years ago