Ben Stiller is a fine actor, and a good comedic one. He has always been recognized because of his comedic roles. But there's a time, when we always seem to be watching the same thing. We say: "I've seen this before, it's familiar". It will be more familiar, when the writer and director of this movie is John Hamburg; who wrote two of Stiller's comedies in the past few years ("Meet the Parents", "Zoolander"). This guy is very funny, really. But he should think about putting some freshness in his material from now on. This is why we can't enjoy Ben Stiller as we usually do, and that's a shame.
Jokes. There's another animal, here, too. It's a ferret, and it's blind. Some little jokes occur when it crashes anything, because it can't see. Remember animals? The cat, in "Meet the parents" (or the dog in "There's something about Mary", another Stiller comedy). The whole thing, about the man loosing it, and replacing it for another one that destroys everything. And the jokes with the cat in the bathroom. The bathroom is always present. We sense the farts, when Polly and Reuben are eating. Then, when they both arrive at Polly's house, he says he needs to use the bathroom. We hear the farts. And the only reason why we don't hear them louder, it's because it would be just as any other film, with this scene in it. The louder sound it's replaced with some cleaning jokes. And in the "salsa" club, when Reuben dances. It could have been a very funny scene, but Stiller looks a lot as his character in "Zoolander", dancing, with his faces. A shame, again.
The romance is quite familiar, we know. We sense (again) what will happen when Javi (a gay person who dances salsa; "Hector plays the keyboards...") tells Reuben that Polly is leaving town. We are about to see the "I'll catch her before she leaves" scene. And Reuben runs, as usual, but she has already left, although she returns five minutes later.
Talking about she, Polly is an interesting character after all. And Jennifer Aniston plays it in a very nice way. She (Aniston) is a good comedic actress. She played comedy for years ("Friends"), and played some nice characters in "Picture Perfecr" and in "Bruce Almighty". She continues to grow.
The rest of the cast is all-star. They're all funny. And of course, there's also the best character in the film and the best performance, given by the great Phillip Seymour Hoffman. He makes Sandy so disgusting and so charming at the same time. Seriously, he steals the film. He brings the freshness to the movie and has the funniest moments, you'll see.
To watch Ben Stiller, you should check out the previously mentioned "Something About Mary" and "Meet the Parents" (not "Zoolander"), or maybe "Mystery Men", which is interesting.
I laughed.
Jokes. There's another animal, here, too. It's a ferret, and it's blind. Some little jokes occur when it crashes anything, because it can't see. Remember animals? The cat, in "Meet the parents" (or the dog in "There's something about Mary", another Stiller comedy). The whole thing, about the man loosing it, and replacing it for another one that destroys everything. And the jokes with the cat in the bathroom. The bathroom is always present. We sense the farts, when Polly and Reuben are eating. Then, when they both arrive at Polly's house, he says he needs to use the bathroom. We hear the farts. And the only reason why we don't hear them louder, it's because it would be just as any other film, with this scene in it. The louder sound it's replaced with some cleaning jokes. And in the "salsa" club, when Reuben dances. It could have been a very funny scene, but Stiller looks a lot as his character in "Zoolander", dancing, with his faces. A shame, again.
The romance is quite familiar, we know. We sense (again) what will happen when Javi (a gay person who dances salsa; "Hector plays the keyboards...") tells Reuben that Polly is leaving town. We are about to see the "I'll catch her before she leaves" scene. And Reuben runs, as usual, but she has already left, although she returns five minutes later.
Talking about she, Polly is an interesting character after all. And Jennifer Aniston plays it in a very nice way. She (Aniston) is a good comedic actress. She played comedy for years ("Friends"), and played some nice characters in "Picture Perfecr" and in "Bruce Almighty". She continues to grow.
The rest of the cast is all-star. They're all funny. And of course, there's also the best character in the film and the best performance, given by the great Phillip Seymour Hoffman. He makes Sandy so disgusting and so charming at the same time. Seriously, he steals the film. He brings the freshness to the movie and has the funniest moments, you'll see.
To watch Ben Stiller, you should check out the previously mentioned "Something About Mary" and "Meet the Parents" (not "Zoolander"), or maybe "Mystery Men", which is interesting.
I laughed.