Shallow Hal

Pros: Paltrow and Black are both believable and lovable
Cons: If you're easily offended...you should watch this movie.

I had absolutely NO desire to see "Shallow Hal." The Farelly brothers' previous outings left me completely cold, and in fact, "Me, Myself, and Irene" turned me off to the point that now I just say, "I don't like comedies." Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler...

Pros: Funny, touching and thought-provoking: this might be the most important film of the year
Cons: The filmmakers don't always balance Hal's skewed vision with other stereotypes

In Shallow Hal, the Farrelly Brothers—the Siblings of Snickering—have delivered one of the slyest comedies to hit the screen in a long time. It’s a film that’s sure to have audiences squirming in their collective skin.
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Pros: Paltrow and Black
Cons: Oh yeah.

The Farrelly brothers walk a fine line with Shallow Hal. I don't think they pull it o ...

Pros: Black, Paltrow, Alexander, Robbins, Kirby, trademark Farrelly humor
Cons: Slow and predictable

After the success of “There’s Something About Mary,” Peter and Bobby Farrelly have been trying to find a way to follow that hit with another success. “Me, Myself, & Irene” had one good moment, but a lot of unfunny and mean-spirited ones. Even though they...

Pros: Paltrow and Black, ultimately sweet, the scene in the hospital
Cons: an overabundance of fat jokes

A week before Christmas, I watched an episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by J ack Black. Although he was not involved in my favorite skit of the night – a hard-core rap spoof about a couple goofballs going to ...

Pros: Cute movie with some deeper social implications.
Cons: Slapstick fat humor.

Let me go out on a limb here and hope I do not break the flowering cherry tree limb in the front yard. Even though Shallow Hal was produced by the Farrelly brothers (who are not always the most sincere guys in the world) and though the movie...

Pros: Jack and Gwyneth are wonderful together!
Cons: Not your usual Farelly brothers

Shallow Hal is the perfect comedy in every sense. It has heart and sweetness and is a really funny love story. The movie is about a guy named Hal, played by Jack Black, who is obsessed with overly gorgeous women who are out of his league. He is...

Pros: Paltrow in both personas, Jack Black, and Jason Alexander
Cons: Implausible and sometimes just a little too dumb

I’ll be honest with you. I got this movie just to be able to experience the cathartic release of writing a scathing review of a movie whose very idea I found sophomoric and ridiculous. I found instead that it was amusing, entertaining, and had some...

Pros: Funny, yet crude jokes intermixed with movie reality.
Cons: Some fat jokes - but not as bad as expected.

Yes, Shallow Hal makes fun of fat people. They are looked upon as beasts, rhinos, elephants, and any other large animal you can think of. People walk into a restaurant and make comments like “well, I hope there’s some food left!” Fat people...

Pros: irresistible at times, Paltrow's great. Jack Black rules!
Cons: not funny enough to be labeled a 'comedy.'

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Pros: Paltrow is sweet. Jack Black is intermittently amusing.
Cons: Jason Alexander is at his shrill, shrieking worst.

After making a name for themselves as the modern kings of cinematic scatology, the Farrelly Brothers now wanna switch gears and make sweety nice-nice romantic comedies. The ones with all the insipid misunderstandings and ridiculous plot twists....

Pros: Nicely restrained humour, and great performances.
Cons: Not the laugh-a-thon you'd expect

Just for the record: Gwyneth Paltrow is a very nice woman, far from the pretentious all-American Valley Girl that The National Enquirer would have us believe. I know this, because I have met her. On three occasions, no less. Our Gwyneth, see, was...

Pros: A Spina Bifida athlete, a morbidly obese wallflower, A hypnotized frustrated lecher.
Cons: I honestly didn't find any worth mentioning, those present are insignificant

I'm still trying to figure out whether I should be mad at the Farrelly brothers, or grateful for a genuinely touching and uplifting experience. You know the Farrelly brothers. They gave the world the epic Dumb and Dumber, and the box office hit...

Pros: Gwyneth will think twice before donning a fat suit again.
Cons: An exercise in discrimination and perpetuating hatred.

Stars: Jack Black, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jason Alexander, Susan Ward, Tony Robbins Rated: PG-13 The Story As a young boy, Hal's dying father extols his son to only date very beautiful women. Hal (Jack Black) grows up, and takes his father's ...

Pros: Gwyneth Paltrow, a surprisingly good story, it will make you look at yourself and think...
Cons: Jason Alexander's hideous hairpiece, the name Mauricio, some moments of sheer stupidity.

Shallow Hal 2001

Directed by:Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly

Cast and Crew
Gwyneth Paltrow .... Rosemary 'Rosie' Shanahan
Jack Black .... Hal Larson
Jason Alexander .... Mauricio Wilson
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