Stuck on You (2003)

Warm, likeable comedy from the now-mellow Farrelly brothers. As much as I despair of ever seeing them do something as caustically funny as Kingpin again, I have to admit that this new sweater fits them well -- their freaks-and-geeks humanism fits better into a cheery template than into a nasty one. (Shallow Hal tried to split the difference and ended up doing nothing right.) Game performances elevate the oft-wispy material (I've said it once and I'll say it again -- Matt Damon is underrated). If it's not as funny as There's Something About Mary, it still does create two characters whom the audience cares about (and who aren't nearly as dumb as the trailer made them out to be) and the laughs it does get feel organic rather than isolated. Its box-office failure was undeserved.

Grade: B+