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The Main Characters
- Reuben Feffer (Ben Stiller)- Reuben is a risk-analyst who decides to get married. When he finds his wife cheating on him on their honeymoon, he stops being so cautios and starts finding out how fun and exciting life can be
- Polly Prince (Jennifer Aniston)- Polly is a rather flighty girl who can never settle still. She is the one who Reuben persues after he comes back from his honeymoon.
- Sandy Lyle (Philip Seymour Hoffman)- Sandy is Reuben's rather eccentric friend who is still living off the fame of a bit part he had in a hit movie
- Lisa Kramer (Debra Messing)- Wife of Reuben
The Setting
This movie takes place in New York City.
The Plot
We start with Reuban getting married to Lisa. The two go off on their honeymoon to some beautiful tropic location. While there, Lisa and Reuben are offered scuba lessons by a naked man named Claude. They decide to go for the lessons but at the last minute Reuben declines. He comes back to find his wife cheating on him with Claude! Reuben of course leaves and goes back to New York City where his friend, Sandy, tries to console him. They go out to a party where Reuben runs into Polly Prince, a women he hasn't met since about 4th grade. Reuben then decides he is going to ask Polly out, which is totally against his usual study-every-risk self. Of course, problems arise when Lisa comes back for Reuben and Polly finds out that Reuben put Lisa vs. Polly on his risk management program to see which one had the least amount of risk.
My Review
This movie is a comedy, so you don't expect much out of the plot, and basically the plot is very simple. Movies like this rely on being funny and this movie sort of succeeds. It is a funny movie. I only had one major complaint. No offense to Philip Seymour Hoffman, but the part of Sandy Lyle was totally written for Jack Black. The maneurisms, the delivery, everything screamed Jack Black. Other than that, it was what it was. It had its funny moments, its gross-out humor. It was just your average comedy. Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston were pretty good too. If you want to see a really hilarious Stiller movie, I'd say you'd be better off with Meet the Parents, and a better Aniston movie is Bruce Almighty, but they did have pretty good chemistry
Overall Rating
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Take it for what it is, your average Hollywood comedy. Don't expect too much from the plot or character development. Just sit back relax and enjoy the movie.
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**1/2
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