There's Something About Mary: Critic Reviews

There's Something About Mary doesn't approach the witty anarchy of movies like Animal House, The Naked Gun, or Hairspray.

There's Something About Mary may be many things, but dull and routine aren't among them.

If the sight of a large chunk of a man's private parts caught in the teeth of a zipper is funny -- and I'm not saying it isn't -- then have I got a movie for you.

This one is dumbest. And funniest, as if that matters even a little bit!

What a blessed relief is laughter.

Despite my earlier reservations about Bobby and Peter Farrelly, they're progressively winning me over, partly because they keep getting better.

Remarkable for all the sick and politically incorrect sight gags it gets away with in its rule-breaking romp through the supposedly sacred laws of what makes people laugh, and what doesn't.

Crudely made, somewhat overlong and larded with plenty of things that don't work, pic stands as proof positive that a comedy can be far from perfect and still hit the bull's-eye if it delivers when it counts in its big scenes.

The final outcome seems hopelessly arbitrary.

A guilty pleasure.

This reprehensible and deeply unfunny film is obviously critic-proof.

You may also want to keep [a] washcloth handy, just to stifle those embarrassing aftershocks of laughter.

The movie is a sick pleasure.

Wrackingly funny.

I haven't laughed this hard at any 1998 offering to-date.

Sensational, sicko fun -- you won't believe your eyes -- and just the thing to shake up the creeping conservatism that is draining the vulgar life out of pop culture.

A giddy symphony of rude and raucous low humor.

Farrelly bros' gross-out laughs aren't for kids.

The movie managed to walk a line between raunchy, gross-out comedy and a romantic comedy.

Gauche, garish, and gross, a prime example of the coarsening of our culture and of the art of comedy in film. It's also pretty darn funny. [Blu-ray]

Puerile, politically incorrect, rib-achingly funny and strangely insightful.

A romantic gross-out comedy: What a concept!

...Dillon's Pat, in an effort to win Mary's affections, poorly attempts to ape her compassion for the handicapped by referring to them as "retards" and "goofy bastards...

It was the raunchy comedy that raked in the headlines and had audiences shaking their heads in offended laughter, then coming back the weekend after, dragging in friends by their arms.

Crude, offensive, sexist -- and embarrassingly hilarious.