The object of the movie, then, is to see which of the four idiots who parade themselves in front of the heroic wench will end up winning the ultimate prize. Will it be Ted, her high school almost prom date? Or Healy, the epitome of sleeze, Or the old boyfriend Woogie? Rest assured, it will certainly be one of them. Right or wrong, girls like Mary inevitably end up attached.

Yet even though this movie is wickedly annoying, it's also quite amusing. Indeed, the movie might be described as a "funnybone" movie. The jokes are brutal, painful, and really no laughing matter, yet for some weird reason, the end result is funny. For the most part, the comedy is mostly paint by the numbers in a guilty, smutty sort of way. Like the low down dirty humor of poor Ted's painful encounter with his zipper on prom night. At other times, the comedy elevates a little, especially in the scene of cross purposes, where the police question Ted as a murder suspect, while he thinks he's answering to a charge of picking up a hitchhiker.

This is the third movie from directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly, following "Dumb and Dumber" and "King Pin." Each follows an established, and seemingly successful pattern, whereby the Farrelly's gather together a petrie dish of human bacteria that they grow into life size organisms which are then thrust onto the silver screen to make the rest of us squirm in our seats.

Cameron Diaz is Mary, in a role destined to do little for her career beyond promoting her image as a bimbo. Ben Stiller is the dweeby Ted and the main vehicle for the comedy. Matt Dillon is striking as the sleezy Healy, not for anything that he does in the role, but more because he still looks the same as when he first hit the scene over a decade ago.

In short, there is something about this movie. It's offensive and annoying, and yet extremely funny.