|
Actors: Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Hank Azaria
|
|
| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Along Came Polly |
|---|
In this romantic comedy a very cautious man gets married to a woman. On their honeymoon he discovers that she cheated on him. He heads back home, heartbroken. Soon he meets Polly, a girl he went to middle school with. They soon start to date, but the only problem is that she is adventurous and he is very cautious.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
|
Stiller is Reuben Feffer, a risk assessment analyst for a large insurance company in New York City. His overplanned life is right on track, until he catches a scuba instructor exploring the deep dark depths of his wife on the first day of their honeymoon. To get his life moving forward again Reuben asks out Polly (Jennifer Aniston) whom he went to high school with and meets by chance at an art show. Polly is the opposite of Reuben, she salsa dances, eats spicy food, and (GASP!) even eats out of the peanut bowl at a bar; whereas Reuben suffers from irritable bowel syndrome and won't walk on the subway grates in a sidewalk. The extreme differences between the two are what set-up some great comedic moments.
Stiller has a talent for portraying the awkward everyman. He is hilarious because with one antagonized look he can relay the pain, anguish and frustration that he is experiencing. His movies (Something About Mary, Meet the Parents) involve situations that we all hate, but manage somehow to get caught up in, and takes them three steps further than they ever should go. It is in those three steps that the true comedy is found.
Aniston is sexy here, as usual, and gets the chance to flex her comic muscles a little more than she did in Bruce Almighty. Half the fun of Stiller's performance is watching Aniston's reactions to his lousy situations. Hank Azaria pulls off a pitch perfect French accent as the muscle-bound scuba instructor.
--Christopher Bryan, Resident Scholar
|
17 FREE Sci-Fi Ebooks!
FREE "How to be happy" Ebook!
| Analysis of Along Came Polly |
|---|
Our unique search engine provides a wealth of detail about
books by breaking them down into many different literary
elements, all of which are searchable (click here). |
Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Kind of comedy
- romantic comedy
How much humor v. drama
- Nearly all humor
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- business executive
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) long wavey
Body type
- (woman) average
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 20%
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
- seeing nude male butt
- sex under blankets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
|
| Most similar reviews by Gordonator ranking |
|---|
| There's Something About Mary
starring Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller
|
| Saving Silverman
starring Jason Biggs, Steve Zahn, Amanda Peet, Jack Black
|
| A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
starring Martin Lawrence, Lynn Whitfield, Della Reese, Regina King, Simbi Khali, Wendy Raquel Robinson
|
| Shallow Hal
starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Jack Black, Jason Alexander, Tony Robbins
|
| The Sweetest Thing
starring Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Johnny Messner, Thomas Jane, Selma Blair
|
|
Note: the views expressed here are only those of the reviewer(s). | |
|
