Shallow Hal

The Farrellys have set themselves the awesome task of arguing passionately for the non-importance of appearance while at the same time making relentless sport of it. The happy news is that they pull it off: In Shallow Hal, they've contrived a deeply humanist gross-out comedy.Read Full Review »

May be the best Farrellys movie yet, even though it doesn't live up to the pair's usual level of uproarious, crass comic genius. They're learning, movie by movie, to articulate ideas that are more and more sophisticated, without being oppressively heavy-handed.Read Full Review »

The most shocking thing about it may be its unabashed sincerity.Read Full Review »

Paltrow is truly touching. And Black, in his first big-time starring role, struts through with the blissful confidence of a man who knows he was born for stardom.Read Full Review »

You can't help cheering on Shallow Hal. That and the fact that it's not at all politically correct. It's something better. It's big-hearted, and it's funny.Read Full Review »

Something is happening to our boys: They're getting mushy. Shallow Hal is not so much about how gross people are as how beautiful they are once you get beyond the rude, noisy flesh. It's a sermon wrapped in a fat suit.Read Full Review »

The movie is shrewd by giving the bulk of its piggish dialogue to Alexander, an actor incapable of projecting genuine cruelty on screen.Read Full Review »

Suffers from "Bridget Jones" Syndrome but without that movie's charms.Read Full Review »

Not only light on laughs but discomfitingly didactic in its disgust.Read Full Review »

For the first time, the Farrellys seem to be embarrassed by their own crudeness. For the first time, they should be.Read Full Review »