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Along
Came Polly
 Along
came Polly will only seem like a bad film if you sit and consider the potential of the
stars and the other things they've done and are capable of doing. Philip
Seymour Hoffman is always pretty classic in most of his roles
and his efforts as the Chris Farley like, friend to Ben are fairly
amusing and represent yet one more type of character he can pull
off. Not much is asked of Jennifer
Aniston (who in our opinion is actually a hell of an
actress and who also has been quite diligent keeping the nudity
under wraps so no caution necessary on the link) in
this movie, other than to look good and act sort of quirky which she
does pretty well but her character is never flushed out at all and
the attempt to explain why she is such a traveling free spirit who
can't commit (her father had a
mistress) is weak at best. Ben Stiller is basically the same guy he
was in There's
Something About Mary, Meet
the Parents and many other roles. Hank
Azaria puts in a weird appearance as a naked French scuba
instructor and we only say weird because he appears to be surreally
pumped up which hopefully he didn't do simply for this role. Debra
Messing, who plays Stiller's new yuppie wife who runs off with
Azaria on their honeymoon, acts exactly like you'd expect her to and Alec
Baldwin trots out yet another smarmy boss role that he's in
danger of becoming known for. For scatology fans there is some good
bathroom humor involving irritable bowels, spicy foods, plungers and
the like but other than that and Hoffman's performance there isn't
much to recommend the film.
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