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Title: How can bad taste be so funny?
Review: I asked myself that question over and over again as I went for the second and third times to the theatre to see "There's Something About Mary", a comedy that pokes fun at every conceivable sacred cow there is. Cameron Diaz is Mary, the girl Ben Stiller has been dreaming about ever since they didn't quite make it to the senior prom years ago. He hires Matt Dillon, a sleazy private eye, to track her down, with the unforeseen outcome that Dillon decides to put the moves on Mary himself. Many scenes beyond risque, "There's Something About Mary" manages to amuse scads of folks--well, not everyone, I guess. I rented this finally to show some family members, who were SERIOUSLY less than amused. The basic take on it was, "Why have you brought this into my home?" So "Mary" is not for everyone, but if you choose your co-audience well, you should still laugh till you cry and then be ashamed of yourself.
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