Shallow Hal
The story revolves around Hal who, taking his dying father's advice, dates only the embodiments of female physical perfection. But eventually, Hal falls in love with a 300 pound woman because of her 'inner beauty'.
23 June 1970, Van Nuys, California, USA
6 April 1959, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
25 April 1979, Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
May 26, 2006
[An] insulting new comedy from Bobby and Peter Farrelly.
June 24, 2006
The film is not as funny as their best, but fascinates in the discomforting way it foregrounds the brothers' normally buried, facile moral dialectic.
November 09, 2001
Makes the case for restricting the Farrellys to mere gross-out movies.
February 13, 2003
There's just about enough charm and laughs here to keep Farrelly fans happy. Even the fat ones.
December 28, 2010
Romantic comedy is pretty tame for Farrelly Bros.
October 18, 2008
With the relatively untested Black coming on awfully strong, the lack of directorial finesse lets the enterprise down, creating some clunky scenes and dead air where laughs might have been expected.
November 27, 2001
We've seen so many crummy comedies that try to be There's Something About Mary or something like this. And the Farrelly brothers come to the rescue and show us how it's done.
January 13, 2007
The Farrellys take an artistic step backward with this soft, disappointingly sentimental comedy about the true nature of beauty; they seem to have forgotten their roots in the outrageous and gross-out.
October 14, 2002
When the final act descends into preachiness, it's nearly earned the indulgence.
November 13, 2001
Not only light on laughs but discomfitingly didactic in its disgust.
January 12, 2003
In delivering their message, the Farrelly Brothers seem to have compromised their nothing-is-sacred comedy spirit, but at least their hearts are in the right place.
November 24, 2001
The film itself is little more than a series of fat jokes.
