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Evenly divided negative and positive reports for this unexpectedly sincere coming-of-age story from the masters of gross-out comedy, the Farrelly brothers ( There's Something About Mary ). Directed by Michael Corrente and based on a novel by Peter Farrelly, it's a standard fish-out-of-water tale (poor kid from small-town Rhode Island gets sent to a snobby boarding school).
The Farrelly brothers' latest slapstick is said to hark back to the screwball romances of the 1940s: The Dumb & Dumber directors temper their repulsive humor--which includes gags about a mangled penis and the mentally retarded--with a touching love story.
That description is more bitter than anything in the film, but it does suggest how Farrelly kept life among the urban unwashed from crushing his soul: He cultivated a caustic sense of humor.
A "rancid little nothing of a movie" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ) that's a grim, gross wannabe Farrelly brothers flick.
The movie is based on a terse, bleakly funny 1988 novel by Peter Farrelly, who, with his brother Bobby, wrote and directed Dumb and Dumber (1994) and There's Something About Mary (1998).