..There's Something About Mary..

This was my movie review for our English class.

There’s something About Mary had been the third-highest-grossing movie of 1998 in North America, and also a highest-grossing comedy film.
This is an R-rated romance and comedy film directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly starring Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, and Matt Dillon.

The movie starts out in 1985 in Rhode Island. Ted Strochmann (Ben Stiller) who is a geek in high school. He was looking for a date in their prom. Unfortunately, he couldn’t find one. He manages to have a date when he came to help a mentally ill man named Warren (W. Earl Brown) when the lad is being attacked and challenged by bullies. After defending the poor lad, Mary (Cameron Diaz) came and turned out to be Warren’s sister. Mary who is like charmed by Ted, asks the boy to be with her on the prom. However, there came a zipper accident that sends him to the hospital.

Thirteen years later, Ted is still hung up on Mary and he hasn’t seen her since the night of the prom. He believes that she is somewhere in Florida, but he is not sure. His best friend Dom (Chris Elliot) recommends that he should hire a private detective to look for her which is Pat Healy (Matt Dillon). Healy manages to find Mary. He found out that she is still single and is a successful orthopedic surgeon. However, Healy wanted to keep Mary to himself. So he tells Ted that Mary is now an overweight welfare mother confined to a wheelchair.

While Ted is out of the way, Healy is gaining information from his covert surveillance for him to make Mary to like him. However, things heat up when Ted learns from another colleague that Mary is still single. They headed down to Florida and seem to have won Mary’s heart when they saw each other, but things changed when an anonymous letter came and exposes his hiring of Healy for Mary.

While Ted is confronting Healy and Tucker (Lee Evans), Mary is confronted by Dom, who turns out to be her former boy friend Woogie. Mary found out that Tucker also lied about her former love interest Brett Favre (a baseball player).

After reuniting Brett and Mary, Ted leaves tearfully. But Mary chases after hm and the story ended with a kiss.

In the story, I don’t like the scenes which show some skin. But maybe it was their style of bringing their kind of comedy. However, I like those scenes with Warren. It was funny and also those scenes of Healy with a dog. It really made me roll on the floor laughing.

I think the part near the end needs some improvement. ‘Cause I think that it is somewhat incomplete. The story seems to be very quick. Maybe they could just change that part. But, all in all the film is really great. It really is entertaining and worth watching. And of course the story, the characters and the directors are really good.