If movies are really a reflection of society, then the Politically Correct movement must be dead (or at least receving its last rights) because There's Something About Mary not only has some of the sickest humor ever in a movie but it isn't affraid to make fun of whatever it wants to. But, if you don't mind sick jokes and you have a dirty mind (like me) then you will love this movie.
Ted (Ben Stiller) is hooked on Mary (Cameron Diaz)
This twisted little story begins in 1985 in a small town in Rhode Island where a high school loser named Ted Stroehmann (Ben Stiller), complete with bad hair and ugly braces, is in love with the town babe Mary Jensen (Cameron Diaz). After Ted helps stop some guy from beating up her retarded brother Warren, Mary asks Ted to the prom seeing through his less then stellar exterier to his personality. After meeting Mary's stepfather, who is "just f&*%ing with him" (a phrase used repeatedly throughout the movie), and getting beaten up by Warren after Ted touches his ear (Warren has a thing about his ears) he gets his "frank and beans" caught in his zipper (both his frank and his beans) and has to be rushed off in a ambulance to help fix his new found problem. We then flash foward thirteen years to the present where we learn that soon afterwards Mary's stepfather was transferred to Miami and Ted hasn't seen her since. But he still thinks about her every day, saying it has to be love because "crushes don't last thirteen years." So at the advice of his best friend Dom (Chris Elliot) suggests he hire a private investigater to find Mary so he can call her... along comes Pat Healy, a sleazy investigater for an insurance company who agrees to find Mary, but after he does he tells Ted that she is fat, ugly, and has four kids by three different guys while he moves to Miami to try and get Mary for himself. Ted is dejected until he finds out from his friend that Mary is actually still a "fox," and is an orthopedic surgeon. Ted then decides he has to go down to Miami and get Mary back from the sleazball Healy.
The rest of the plot pretty much follows Ted trying to win Mary's affection with his own sweet charm while Healy and another fraud named Tucker (Lee Evans) lie to her to try and get Ted out of the picture, it even has a cameo by Brett Favre (yuck) as one of Mary's ex-boyfriends. But none of the plot is really what's makes this movie any good, or utterly horrible depending on your taste. What really makes There's Something About Mary stand out is its near complete lack of tack... I repeat THIS IS NOT A MOVIE FOR CHILDREN OR THOSE WITHOUT AT LEAST A PARTIALLY SICK SENSE OF HUMOR. If you don't laugh at sick humor, don't even go because you won't like it... in fact you will probably hate it. Luck for me, I love sick humor so I thought it was hilarious... in fact most of the jokes are so bad that they couldn't show them on TV, and I can't tell you about them without getting kicked off Geocities. I will tell you that it is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen and I will be laughing for a long time. All in all, There's Something About Mary is the comedy event of the summer.
