Have the Farrelly Brothers gone soft? Not really, but Shallow Hal is a comedy with a heart.
Shallow Hal isn’t There’s Something About Mary. Jack Black isn’t Ben Stiller. Gwyneth Paltrow isn’t Cameron Diaz. I just wanted to get that out of the way from the start. Black plays Hal, an average guy always after the hot chicks. And while he is chasing the hot chicks, they’re busy trying to run away from him. Then trapped in an elevator with Tony Robbins, it seems Hal is put under a spell. Now Hal sees the good in people far deeper than what the skin can offer. That is when he finds Rosemary, an extremely heavy woman, who Hal sees as a babe.
Perhaps a problem with the film, and it may not be the movie’s fault, is that the TV commercials show the film’s funniest parts. So you go in already knowing the best of the movie and are really let down. Honestly, with the Farrelly’s history there are expectations, mostly that you are going to laugh yourself sick, and that never happens.
+ charlie craine
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