Dreadfully Boring

What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

I have to admit that I am shocked by the low overall rating for this film. To me this was another classic by the brothers. The formula is very similar to other movies they have made, but maybe this one pulls a little more for the heart strings. Hal has been programmed to be shallow and superficial by not only his father, but society in general. However, with the help of Tony Robbins he is able to see what true beauty and decency are, and as he realizes, both of those things are more than skin deep. Lots of great gags and humor along the way. People that thought the film was insensitive really didn't get it. And for my money, the greatest ending ever, with the great "Love Grows" playing us out. A rewarding experience.

Jack Black, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jason Alexander star in this 2001 comedy. Black (School of Rock) plays Hal, an executive who is fixated on the physical beauty of women. Self-help guru, Tony Robbins appears as himself who meets Hal while stuck in an elevator and hypnotizes him to see their inner beauty. Paltrow (Iron Man) plays Rosemary, a pretty, self-conscious woman Hal finds romance with, but is really obese and Alexander (Pretty Woman) plays Hal's nit-picky best friend, Mauricio. This is a good comedy from the Farrelly brothers (Dumb & Dumber, There's Something About Mary) with a great cast and good make-up effects I recommend.

Shallow Hal is a good movie with a well written storyline and a great comedic cast.The movie is written and directed by the Farrelly brothers,who have made some outstanding comedies,and while this may not be some of their best work,it is still filled with loads of hilarious scenes that you'd know while watching that they wrote it.Jack Black is certainly the best part of this movie,he was really interested and confident about his character and it certainly showed on screen,he also had great chemistry with both Gwyneth Paltrow and Jason Alexander.I thought that the jokes about Paltrows character being really fat but the audience seeing her as skinny gets really old after a while,but it just keeps gong until the end of the movie,which was certainly the weakest part of the movie,it's funny for a bit,but seeing a woman with a great figure manage to break a chair or eat a two person milkshake on her own just gets old pretty fast.Shallow Hal certainly has flaws,but it is funny and unique and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a quick and fun comedy.When looks obsessed Hal is hypnotised in to recognising only the inner beauty of women he soon falls for Rosemary,a very obese woman,but he only sees the beauty in her.Best Performance: Jack Black

Very charming and entertaining fantasy about what might happen if men could look under the surface and appreciate women for their inner beauty.Jack Black is excellent as a superficial man who views women strictly as objects of pleasure until a come-to-Jesus moment with a self-help guru."Shallow Hal" is quite clever, with a number of funny sight gags and excellent jokes.Jack Black is superb as Hal, and the wonderfully mugged Joe Viterelli (only a few years from his death, I learned on Wikipedia) excels as the father of Hal's hefty lady love.We can see hints of the Farrelly brothers' off-color humor at many points along the way, notably in the casting of the disabled Rene Kirby as a man on the make who wrings humor from his spina bifida. Look for this athletic actor during the outtakes, and be amazed.I watched this romp with my 10-year-old son, who normally prefers action films and animal movies, and we both had a great time.The film ends on a genuinely moving note -- always an accomplishment for a comedy.