Mary, Mary, quite contrary.

Well, the movie Ricky Stanicky is hitting streaming today, the latest from the once-great Peter Farrelly. Given the bullshit of Green Book winning him two Academy Awards, the trailer made me laugh and the premise intrigued me as far back as when I read the script and the Scriptshadow review back in its Blogger days.

The reviews so far have…not been kind. One review said that the film is a long way from There’s Something About Mary. “There’s Something About Mary is a comedy masterpiece!” It’s been 25 years; a quarter of a century. Are people really still swallowing that man gravy?

All I ask from a comedy is that it make me laugh. If you can do that, you’re in like Flynn. You’re talking to a defender of Kung Pow! Enter the Fist and Land of the Lost. A comedy would have to work damn hard to make me hate it.