Along Came Polly (Widescreen Edition)

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Summary: Very funny but goes flat half way through
Review: I was pleasantly surprised at how enjoyable ALONG CAME POLLY was. Granted, it relied on toilet humour in many scenes, but you can expect that with this type of lightweight comedy. The film started to fall flat half way through, and became a tad boring. The remainder of the film was totally predicatable. However, you could do alot worse for a DVD to watch on a Friday night.

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Summary: The Funniest Movie
Review: I just wanted to share that when Tracy and I saw this movie we both thought it was just hillarious. We both laughed til tears were in our eyes. The entire audiance in the theatre would erupt in laughter in many scenes. Just a super great funny movie. Very highly recomended to add to your movie collection.

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Summary: MY FAVORITE!
Review: This movie is soooooooo great. It got bad reviews saying it was just 'a stereotypical romantic comedy.' Yeah it's a romantic comedy but the best one I've seen since Bruce Almighty.(I'm a hugantic Jennifer Aniston fan.) Not only does this movie have two amazing leads it has an amazing group of supporting roles-I especially loved Philip Hoffman he was so funny I peed my pants a little tee-he-he. Hank Azaria also made me fall out of my seat with laughter. Jennifer Aniston is outstanding as usual and Ben Stiller a hoot as always. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVED it!

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Summary: One of the worst movies I have ever seen.
Review: If you like toilet scenes and enjoy humor below waist, this is the movie for you.

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Summary: Non-obnoxious Ben, Absolutely Awesome Jen
Review: This was the cutest movie ever! Jennifer Aniston played a totally relateable Polly, and this is the first movie with Ben Stiller in it that I've actually liked. They are a perfect duo with amazing chemistry. Some definite laughs and great romantic comedy.

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Summary: This one's for Rueben!
Review: Along Came Polly has a pretty good pedigree - the writers of Meet The Parents, a lead character called Rueben and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Can't fail, right? I really wanted to like this movie. The preview looked great, I love Ben Stiller and the premise sounds intriguing enough (the OCD freak who dates the scatterbrain), but sadly something is missing, some certain spark, some pure essence, what the French would call... well, I don't know what the French would call it, but it's not there. Time and again the script sets up these really funny situations and then simply wastes them. "Meet The Parents" and "There's Something About Mary" derive their humor from creating these awkward situations and then following them through in excruciatingly hilarious detail, while Stiller squirms in embarrassment - desecrating Robert De Niro's mother's ashes, fighting with Cameron Diaz's friends dog, spray painting the tail of a cat - all hilariously built up and followed through, without seeming strained. Here though the audience is spared seeing Stiller suffer these indignities (the bathroom incident for example, where the cut is made when he looks at the towel), but in turn misses out on the big pay-off laugh, the caramel center beneath the chocolate. The movie is missing the proverbial money shot. Certain scenes are certainly hilarious and well observed, certain characters and relationships are very very funny - Phillip Seymour Hoffman yet again proves himself to be one of the greatest character actors of our time, and almost saving the movie single-handedly- but on balance I don't think this is a movie I'll come back to time and again.
On a separate note Jennifer Aniston is awful as usual! I don't know why anyone ever thought she'd work on the big screen : Office Space, Bruce Almighty, Along Came Polly - she plays the same slightly vapid, character each time, and yet each time the guy is supposed to fall madly in love with her, enough to turn his whole life around? Why? She's as interesting as a wet paper bag, and just as likeable - she simply has no charisma on the big screen, no ability to hold the audience's interest, no timing and no presence. Mind you, Friends itself wasn't exactly a great proving ground...
Anyway, I'd say wait for the DVD release of ...Polly and rent don't buy. On the plus side the movie does feature the phrase "Rueben!" repeatedly. I'd suggest busting a little happy juice into the cinema and tipping one whenever the big guy gets a shout out. It'll make the movie go quicker and seem a lot funnier. Then go home, and go to sleep until March when the new Starsky and Hutch movie is released featuring Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg and Vince Vaughn!! I just hope no-one lets Jennifer Aniston anywhere near it!

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Summary: Along Came Polly
Review: Reuben Feffer's marriage is over before it begins when he catches his new wife with a scuba instructor on their honeymoon. Returning home distraught, his best friend, Sandy, drags him to a party where he is reunited with Polly, a girl he has not seen since high school. They start dating, and while attracted to each other, they are complete opposites. This is a genuinely funny movie, and Ben Stiller is in his element. Philip Seymour Hoffman steals the show though, as Sandy, the one time child actor and best friend of Reuben. Funny and well worth your time.

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Summary: WATCHABLE
Review: Given the mixed reviews the movie seems to be getting after the initial blitzkreig, I didn't exactly have tall expectations. The humor is indeed gross-out and Stiller desparately needs new gags. But I actually had a few good laughs and a pleasant time overall. It's a VERY predictable sort of a movie, after a fabulous role in The Good Girl, I wonder why J. Aniston went for this one. Don't expect Something About Mary and you should do alright with this pastime romantic candy.

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Summary: Completely Average in Every Way
Review: Do not waste your time on seeing this movie...You've seen the best parts in the trailers (with the exception of the crude humor of Philip Seymour Hoffman). The plot is completely predictable and the comedy is squeezed into the story in a way that makes it un-natural and uncomfortable to watch...
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY! Polly is barely worth renting.

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Summary: Don't believe the hype!!
Review: I was so disappointed in this movie. I figured with Jennifer Aniston and Ben Stiller it could not be anything but great. The only actor with a humorous presence was Ben's geeky friend - a childhood actor still trying to cash in on the one good movie he starred in (played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman). The "relationship" between "Ben and Jen" was so far fetched you didn't even want their characters to end up together. Ben played his usual role of an anal geek (which I usually laugh at). I kept waiting for the "meat" of the story line to kick it, but it never did. I still love this Ben and Jen but this movie was a complete flop. Save your money - wait for this one to be released on DVD!!