Shallow Hal (2001)
6/10
Good cast in an average comedy.
1 February 2002
Shallow Hal is about Hal, a guy who is a womaniser and is only interested in beautiful women, more than a women's personality. When Hal gets trapped in an elevator with famous Tony Robbins and explains that he has no luck with women, Tony tells him that he shouldn't only look for the womens outer beauty, he should look for the women's inner beauty too. He then hypnotises Hal, into seeing a women's inner beauty and any 'ugly' woman Hal will meet will be pretty to him outside as well as in the inside. In comes Rosemary, a rather large women, who Hal sees as a beautiful woman. They get along great and start seeing each-other, but when Hal's just as shallow friend, Mauricio then un-hypnotises Hal, the big test will be to see if once Hal finally sees what Rosemary really looks like, will he still want to be with her.

Shallow Hal stars, Jack Black, Jason Alexander, Gwyneth Paltrow and Sascha Knopf. They are all great actors/actress' and they give good and believable performances in the movie, which is one of the main things that makes the movie what it is.

Yes, the Farrelly brothers have a really strange and sick humour, so when you go see one of there movies you expect that, but most recently each time they bring out new movies, they get weirder and cruder each time. I'm not really sure if I really want to see any more of there 'new' movies. Shallow Hal is not exactly a brilliant movie, but definitely better than some of the Farrelly brothers other work. One of the reasons, being the cast in the movie who are brilliant in there roles and even though the story-line to Shallow Hal is not exactly fantastic, I guess, it's different and provides a few laughs at times. Some people may find this movie funny, others may find it offensive. It's bound to have different opinions from everyone who watches it. Oh, well, I'm not sure what else to say about it, but it was okay, anyway.
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