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January 16, 2004

Gross-out schtick wears thin in 'Polly'

By CHRISTY LEMIRE
AP Entertainment Writer

After "There's Something About Mary," "Meet the Parents" and "Duplex," it seemed Ben Stiller had played characters who've humiliated and injured themselves in every imaginable way and had every possible bodily fluid spew from them or spill on them.

Now, along comes "Along Came Polly," in which Stiller gets carried away on yet another wave of gross-out gags, all of them desperately straining for laughs, few of them truly earning any.

ALONG CAME POLLY

Director: John Hamburg

Cast: Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alec Baldwin

Rating: PG-13, for sexual content, language, crude humor and some drug references

Running time: 90 minutes


 
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