Unexpectedly rather sweet and underplayed, given that it comes from the gross-out kings.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 8, 2023

The situations become too embarrassing to be funny.

| Nov 8, 2023

A movie that meanders from one sight gag to the next, many of which you've already seen in the commercials.

| Jun 12, 2018

Romantic comedy is pretty tame for Farrelly Bros.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2010

With the relatively untested Black coming on awfully strong, the lack of directorial finesse lets the enterprise down, creating some clunky scenes and dead air where laughs might have been expected.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

The film is not as funny as their best, but fascinates in the discomforting way it foregrounds the brothers' normally buried, facile moral dialectic.

| Jun 24, 2006

The Farrelly brothers are fresh out of ideas with this dull effort, a kind of Farrelly Lite. They have replaced intentional bad taste with the unintentional sort.

| Feb 3, 2002

Hilarious in parts, sickeningly sentimental in others, Shallow Hal has the Farrellys trying to expand their range, with only mildly successful results.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 21, 2002

We've seen so many crummy comedies that try to be There's Something About Mary or something like this. And the Farrelly brothers come to the rescue and show us how it's done.

Full Review | Nov 27, 2001

The film itself is little more than a series of fat jokes.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 24, 2001

Not only light on laughs but discomfitingly didactic in its disgust.

Full Review | Nov 13, 2001

I almost hate to have to say this but the Farrellys might be better off going back to their rude-and-crude roots instead of mucking around with this sensitivity business.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 11, 2001

One problem with the movie is that instead of the characters themselves being funny, the jokes in the movie happen around them.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 10, 2001

Makes the case for restricting the Farrellys to mere gross-out movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 9, 2001

An ill-conceived, slovenly executed and disingenuous comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 9, 2001

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.

| Nov 9, 2001

All this sweet, inoffensive stuff is actually pretty boring.

| Nov 9, 2001

It gets away with fat jokes at the same time it seems to be on the side of the angels and inner beauty.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 9, 2001

May be the best Farrellys movie yet, even though it doesn't live up to the pair's usual level of uproarious, crass comic genius.

Full Review | Nov 9, 2001