Amazon.com video review:
The team behind Dumb and Dumber
and There's Something About Mary--two really stupid, gross-out
films that worked and were quite funny--also made this really stupid,
gross-out comedy that doesn't work and isn't funny at all. Woody
Harrelson stars as a former bowling phenomenon with a hook for a hand,
and Randy Quaid is an Amish farmer with a hidden talent for pins. The
two join forces and get a sexy business partner (Vanessa Angel), and
the film starts looking more and more like a jokey variation of The Color of
Money. The Color of Money, however, didn't feature
jokes about having oral sex with a hideous landlady or defecating in a
sink or dragging disgusting stuff out of one's teeth with a length of
floss. Bill Murray provides some much-needed relief as Harrelson's
ex-partner turned rival. How come this stuff is obnoxious while the
equally perverse punch lines of There's Something About Mary
are a riot? It's a great mystery, all right, but there it is. --Tom
Keogh
