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ReviewScore: 60 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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The Farrelly brothers have been making a point of noting that their latest film, Outside Providence, has nothing in common with their earlier efforts like Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary. But some critics reviewing their film, which opens today (Wednesday), indicate that that may be what's wrong with it. "Thank goodness there are three or so chuckle-worthy tasteless remarks (listen especially for the one about the Hoover Dam and beavers) and a few repulsive sight gags (a demonstration of "mental floss") to remind us why we like the proudly lowbrow Farrellys in the first place," writes Susan Wloszczyna in USA Today. Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post dismisses the film as "fitfully amusing but nothing remarkable." But Rick Groen in the Toronto Globe & Mail calls the film "an amiable surprise" While Janet Maslin in The New York Times applauds: "The movie becomes sidesplitting more than a few times. ... Although the film includes "the masturbation gag that has become the authorial stamp of the Farrellys, it weaves a surprising amount of wisdom and tenderness into all these antics." And Jay Carr in the Boston Globe joins in: "It's a sweet and ultimately touching film with more straightforward humanity and realism than anything else we have seen so far with the Farrelly name on it. It's a film of modest but solid and heartfelt attainments." |
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