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Yes the Farrelly brothers, the disgusting duo who brought us <I>Dumb and Dumber</I>, Kingpin and <I><B>Me, Myself and Irene</B></I> and how could one ever forget <I>Something about Mary</I>? Peter and Bobby Farrelly give us <I>Shallow Hal.</I></div> <bR> <div> Shallow Hal Larson (Jack Black) is a guy that we've all met. A man who judges a woman on how she looks and very little else. Hal, who never stops to realize that he's far from eye candy himself, runs into self-improvement guru Tony Robbins in an elevator and after some positive visualization, Hal gets a new outlook. He suddenly sees people for how they look on the inside. </div> <bR> <div> Enter Rosemary (Gwyneth Paltrow), a vision of beauty, if only in the eyes of Hal. As the days and weeks go by, Hal and Rosemary joke, laugh and fall in love. Hal couldn't be happier until his view is questioned by his best friend Mauricio (as slimily portrayed by Jason Alexander). Not satisfied enough with his best friends happiness, Mauricio tracks down Robbins and manages to weasel the password out of him to break Hal out of his "trance". Once he "deprograms" Hal, he convinced him that if he sees Rosemary how everyone else sees her all the love he has for her won't be able to override his eyes. That leads to some sophomoric avoidance that includes everything but hiding in a locker when Rosemary comes down the hall (don't act like I was the only one who did that in junior high school). Funny stuff, but after spending much of the movie really liking Hal, it made me wanna hop into the screen and punch his lights out!</div> <bR> <div> Of course what Mauricio doesn't factor into <B>HIS</B> shallow thinking is that true love doesn't care anything about outward appearances, which is what the movie is going for. Now for all the die-hard Farrelly fans out there, this one doesn't rank real high on the gross-out meter, but it does provide the kinds of laughs you have come to expect from the Farrelly's. For all the Gwyneth Paltrow fans out there, be prepared to see her in an <B>ENTIRELY</B> different light, the fat suit she has on is the best I've seen since <I>Mrs. Doubtfire.</I></div> <bR> <div> This movie is very sweet and enjoyable. </div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="621" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="617"><div> Demetrius Payne © 2001</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="617"><div> <A HREF="houseofpayne1@hotmail.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="houseofpayne1@hotmail.com"><U><U>houseofpayne1@hotmail.com</U></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>