Rating: 
Summary: An average movie
Review: This movie has a great cast and the script was probably hilarious, but the actual movie is extremely average. It has all the right parts from the leading cast of Jennifer Aniston and Ben Stiller, and the wacky friend played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman to the scuba instructor that steals Stiller's fiance on their honeymoon played by Hank Azaria. All these parts thrown together are amusing but don't elevate the movie like they should.Ruben and Polly (Stiller and Anniston) are exact opposits. Ruben analyzes risk for a living and Polly is a carefree waitress. The movie plays off this concept to the very end with Ruben falling for Polly in spite of the risks she forces him to take. The highlight of the movie for me was seeing the beautiful Debra Messing without having to actually watch Will and Grace. And Hank Azaria is fun to watch ouside of his guest shots on friends and doing the voices on the Simpsons. This movie is worth renting, but not buying. The parts for a great romantic comedy are there, but they just don't add up to anything special.
Rating: 
Summary: The other Ben & Jen
Review: Along Came Polly does try desperately to be a top of the range rom-com movie. Unfortunately, these rom-coms all have the same format, and are all beginning to look just slightly tired. But this was still slightly above average, because it had Jennifer Aniston. I'm sorry, but Ben Stiller reminds me a lot of a less funny Jim Carrey, and a less annoying Adam Sandler. To think, when Jen was filming this, she was also filming Friends AND Bruce Almighty at the same time. And then she would go home to Brad Pitt. I'm not jealous, I'm one of very few women who actually doesn't think he's THAT nice looking. I'll get flamed for saying I've seen better! Along Came Polly has everything. Toilet humour, blind ferrets, a homosexual love interest (could I be talking about Alex Baldwin?!), ex-wives who run off with Hank Azaria - I mean, what more could you ask for from a film? Hank Azaria is the best part of this. Plus, the fact that he's very easy on the eye while he's running about wearing little more than a smile most of the time helped! I don't know why this guy insists on doing so much voice work on The Simpsons etc, when he's got a body like that hidden away! There's various rip-offs of other movies, the most prominent ones being the toilet scene featuring Ben, is exactly the same as the one in Dumb & Dumber, only not as funny, and not as loud. Also, there's a scene where Ben's character makes a list about Jen & his ex wife's plus and negative points. Hmmm - Friends anyone?! Ross making a list about Rachel & Julie?! Season 2?! The extras are pretty average. You've got a rather pointless feature, with the 'star' of the movie, the blind ferret. There are also deleted scenes, outtakes, and not much else. Apart from cast & crew. Overall, it's still a good movie. I'll probably always watch these movies, to see if there's ever going to be anything different. But Hank Azaria gets top marks!
Rating: 
Summary: Hysterically funny
Review: Either you like Ben Stiller, and his neurotic potty humor schtick, or you don't. If you DO, this movie is not going to disappoint. I actually had really low expectations, and found it to be hysterically funny.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman chews up the scenery, and almost steals the movie.
Rating:
Summary: This movie was funny
Review: This movie had it's funny parts and then it's really funny parts. Overall I think it was a good movie. Ben Stiller almost makes anything funny. He's a good actor. It was pretty entertaining, I recommend it
Rating:
Summary: Funny: Weak Plot Great Support: Polly's Not Bad
Review: Along Came Polly is a good film with a weak plot and poor performances by the lead actors. After saying this I will say that there are funny parts and if you don't care that the lead roles are played unconvincingly and are completely stereotypical this is movie is worth watching. I will say that the supporting roles do help sustain the movie from being a comple train wreck. Phillip Seymour Hoffman is great playing a role of a child actor grown up into a dissolusioned loser and Hank Azaria is absolutely funny in role Claude the French SCUBA instructor and it is worth watching this film just for these roles.
But its "tough nouggies" for Ben Stiller and Jennifer Anniston. Stiller is funny in the bathroom scene and a few others although he performs a Salsa scene that should have been an outake only available in the DVD version. He also makes these ridiculous facial expressions throughout the film that can only make one think that he wasn't trying too hard. I am not a fan of Jenifer Anniston. That being said she was bad in this role. She was great in "Office Space" but here she looks worn out and played the role so unsympathetically (maybe she just needs to eat).
Though it may sound like I didn't like the movie I will be forgiving and say that on the whole it is a fun watch. The DVD edition is full of outakes commentaries and an alternate opening. If you are fans of the actors then you will love it, if not you should still find it funny. The DVD is worth having for something funny to watch on a rainy afternoon.
-- Ted Murena
Rating:
Summary: I was entertained
Review: Yeah, this is your typical romantic-comedy. The plot stinks and the end is just as you would imagine. That being said, I sit here trying to describe why I will watch this movie again.
Was it Jennifer Anniston?? No, her role is good, but nothing spectaculer.
Ben Stiller?? Maybe. That guy can make me laugh by just standing on the screen.
I know..It is Stiller's friend. I can't remember his name(it's been a week since I watched), but Ben Stiller's actor friend is hilarious in this movie. He plays a child-actor who has grown up, but stills feels superior to everyone he meets. This guy makes this movie. Some of the stuff he says is just so out-of-line that you can't help but laugh. Now, when I say out-of-line, I mean that in a romantic comedy way. This movie is defintely grosser than most Richard Gere films, which is good for those guys like myself, who will have to sit thru crap like this all the time with their girlfriends.
The story...I'm not even going to get into it, because it's boy meets girl..boy discovers he likes girl...girl is not sure...so on and so on..
Don't be discouraged by the other reviews on Amazon for this movie. If you liked "Meet the Parents" there is a good chance you will enjoy this film.
Rating:
Summary: Starts off with promise... ...promise is broken early on.
Review: Hank Azaria and Philip Seymour Hoffman add humor in the beginning, however they are not the films focus. Ben Stiller provides a humorless part, I doubt he read the script because I don't know why he would choose to take a role where the supporting cast provides the humor and he is just the "feel sorry for" guy who gets cheated on during day one of his honeymoon. Debra Messing is much too likeable to play this part. We're suppose to hate her for what she's done to her new husband, but I just didn't. Now for Jennifer Aniston. She doesn't do to bad for playing a character that's about 25% developed. Need I say more? As for the romance in this romantic comedy.. Where was it? Did they even fall in love? Who knows? In the end Polly seemed unsure of what she wanted. I felt that the film was elevated above one star HOWEVER, because of Azaria and Hoffman. They played their roles superbly, too bad no one else on board was up to their par.
Rating: 
Summary: ALONG CAME POLLY
Review: Yet another romantic comedy about unlikely people coming together despite themselves, and this one's worse than most. The premise is fine and you'd think that Ben Stiller and Jennifer Anniston would make it work, but not so. The two leads are talented, but somehow there's never any believable spark between them, and neither's character is particularly likeable anyway so it's hard to see what they might see in each other apart from sheer desperation. The script is terrible and relies heavily on bathroom humor and other juvenilia. This is an unfortunately crude, crass, blatantly unbelievable and highly unfunny film.
Rating:
Summary: funnier than it has the right to be
Review: This is sort of an off-the-shelf romantic comedy in which Stiller and Anniston craft themselves according to other characters they've played. Anniston is Polly Prince, a free spirited type with no roots. Stiller is Ruben Feffer, a risk averse whiz in actuarial science targeted for acts of mass embarrassment - including being dumped by his wife (Debra Messing) on his honeymoon. Emotionally devastated, Ruben connects with Polly, a girl he idolized as a kid. However, her free ways disgust him (she happily lives a life of disarray, of unset schedules and lost keys). Rather than the valor you'd get in epic poetry, Ruben proves his love for Polly by sticking with her through 2 months of walking her ferret, eating spicy food, repeated vomiting and ceaselessly irritated bowels. What Ruben can't quite divorce himself of is the element of risk itself - being his bane and her reason detre.
This was an especially thin story, one of those movies that can only rear its head in theaters between new-years and Memorial Day. It works though mostly because Anniston and Stiller work up their talents (if you don't like Stiller enough to watch him sweat like a pig, or projectile vomit, then this is not your romantic comedy). "Polly" also gets some surprising mileage from supporting stars - Phillip Seymour Hoffman as a former 80's brat-packer actor who doesn't know that his star has passed, Bryan Brown as a hazard magnet Feffer is reviewing for an insurance policy, Alec Baldwin as Feffer's boss, and Hank Azaria as a sun-fried SCUBA instructor who gets things rolling by breaking Feffer's heart.
Rating:
Summary: NOT FUNNY, AND BORING!
Review: If this is your type of movie, you'll love it!
I rank this movie with Anchorman, and Johnson
family vacation, they all sucked!
BEN STILLER, IS SUCH A DORK!
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