Hilarious comedy starring Ben Stiller as a recently married risk analyst who walks in on his new wife and their scuba instructor making whoopy on the first day of their honeymoon. Shocked, he moves back to New York and swiftly falls for a ditzy, carefree former classmate, Polly Prince (Jennifer Aniston) - but just as things start to get interesting, guess who shows up full of remorse?
(It's his wife - in case you're not following =) )
As a bit of background to this review, I think Ben Stiller is one of the funniest actors in Hollywood at the moment, I'm completely head over heels in love with Jennifer Aniston and I own a pet ferret, so to say I've been anticipating this movie's release since seeing the trailer near the end of last year is quite the understatement. Thankfully, it delivers on all fronts - with the laughs coming thick and fast from start to finish, Aniston looking as fab as ever and the ferret being involved in some memorable moments. What more can you ask for?
One of my minor quibbles was that, even though Stiller's wife (comically portrayed by Debra Messing of 'Will and Grace' fame) had the nerve to do what she did on their honeymoon, the script still portrayed her as an extremely likeable person to make Stiller's choice of which girl to stay with that much harder. In many movies - and indeed, real life - I don't think the wife would have had any comeback whatsoever after such an incident! It is a comedy after all, though, so this is a very minor complaint.
Alec Baldwin, Hank Azaria and Philip Seymour Hoffman all give side-splitting perfomances in their (albeit cameo) roles to round off an entertaining comedy success - 2004 may only be 29 days old but I'd be very surprised if Hollywood releases a better comedy crowd-pleaser this year. Quality entertainment!
**** / *****
(It's his wife - in case you're not following =) )
As a bit of background to this review, I think Ben Stiller is one of the funniest actors in Hollywood at the moment, I'm completely head over heels in love with Jennifer Aniston and I own a pet ferret, so to say I've been anticipating this movie's release since seeing the trailer near the end of last year is quite the understatement. Thankfully, it delivers on all fronts - with the laughs coming thick and fast from start to finish, Aniston looking as fab as ever and the ferret being involved in some memorable moments. What more can you ask for?
One of my minor quibbles was that, even though Stiller's wife (comically portrayed by Debra Messing of 'Will and Grace' fame) had the nerve to do what she did on their honeymoon, the script still portrayed her as an extremely likeable person to make Stiller's choice of which girl to stay with that much harder. In many movies - and indeed, real life - I don't think the wife would have had any comeback whatsoever after such an incident! It is a comedy after all, though, so this is a very minor complaint.
Alec Baldwin, Hank Azaria and Philip Seymour Hoffman all give side-splitting perfomances in their (albeit cameo) roles to round off an entertaining comedy success - 2004 may only be 29 days old but I'd be very surprised if Hollywood releases a better comedy crowd-pleaser this year. Quality entertainment!
**** / *****