For directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly, this is a return to There’s Something About Mary star Ben Stiller, but it’s hardly a return to form. The picture is so bad, it made me want to reconsider my opinion of all their previous comedies. Cruel where the 1972 original was merely honest, the movie follows newlywed Eddie Cantrow (Stiller), whose disillusionment over the reality of marriage only increases when he hits it off with another woman. On his honeymoon. None of the gross-out gags work, even in terms of shock value. Instead, they only made me wonder: Are the Farrellys (not to mention Stiller) in a creative lull, or have I always been wrong about them?
