69
Metascore
29 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- One of the funniest movies of the year, but you may need to shower afterwards.
- 88USA TodaySusan WloszczynaUSA TodaySusan WloszczynaA gut-busting blast of tasteless tomfoolery.
- 88New York Daily NewsNew York Daily NewsA shocking and hilarious triumph.
- 80Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThe Farrellys here show a gift not just for finding humor where others have feared to look but for presenting it in a way that is surprisingly close to irresistible.
- 80Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumTheir gross-out humor is basically sweet tempered, for all its tweaking of PC attitudes, and though this film looks slapdash, its script (by the Farrellys, Ed Decter, and John J. Strauss) is surprisingly well put together.
- 63San Francisco ExaminerSan Francisco ExaminerA supremely silly movie, which means that it has moments of boring idiocy mixed with moments of inspired hilarity.
- 60TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThe laughs are low -- very low -- and the comedy often flags. But two elaborate sequences involving a bad-tempered little ankle-biter are standouts.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe Farrellys may well be the new kingpins of adolescent slob comedy, but There's Something About Mary doesn't approach the witty anarchy of movies like "Animal House," "The Naked Gun," or "Hairspray."
- 30New York Magazine (Vulture)New York Magazine (Vulture)The general insensitivity of the atmosphere gets one down after a while. None of these people go together: Friends don't seem like friends, lovers don't seem like lovers. In brief, it's not enough just to have bad taste. You have to have talent, too.
- 10Film.comPeter BrunetteFilm.comPeter BrunetteThis reprehensible and deeply unfunny film is obviously critic-proof.