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The story revolves around Hal who, taking his dying father's advice, dates only the embodiments of female physical perfection. But eventually, Hal falls in love with a 300 pound woman because of her 'inner beauty'.
We've seen so many crummy comedies that try to be There's Something About Mary or something like this. And the Farrelly brothers come to the rescue and show us how it's done.
November 27, 2001
Window to the Movies
In delivering their message, the Farrelly Brothers seem to have compromised their nothing-is-sacred comedy spirit, but at least their hearts are in the right place.
The film itself is little more than a series of fat jokes.
November 24, 2001
Village Voice
Not only light on laughs but discomfitingly didactic in its disgust.
November 13, 2001
The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
When the final act descends into preachiness, it's nearly earned the indulgence.
October 14, 2002
EmanuelLevy.Com
The Farrellys take an artistic step backward with this soft, disappointingly sentimental comedy about the true nature of beauty; they seem to have forgotten their roots in the outrageous and gross-out.
With the relatively untested Black coming on awfully strong, the lack of directorial finesse lets the enterprise down, creating some clunky scenes and dead air where laughs might have been expected.