There's Something About Mary (DVD 1999)

If you liked the Farrelly Brothers' "Dumb and Dumber," you are going to love "There's Something About Mary." The humor is again on a boys' locker room level, but the acting and script are both superior to "Dumb."
Cameron Diaz is Mary, a drop-dead gorgeous girl with a heart of gold. The story opens in high school as dorky Ted (Ben Stiller) prepares for a prom date with the wonderful Mary. They never get to the prom, however, and years later, he is still dreaming about what might have been.

At his buddy (played by the hilarious, scene-stealing Chris Elliot)'s urging, Ted hires a private detective to find her. The detective (Matt Dillon) finds her and falls for Mary himself. There is also a crippled man who lusts after Mary. Through all this, the story is "narrated" by two unnamed musicians who pop up now and then and sing about the action.

There are so many hilarious scenes; the zipper, the dog, the hair gel, the hitchhiker; you've heard about all of them. This is one time when the movie lives up to the buzz.

Cameron Diaz is so beautiful and funny that you cannot take your eyes off of her. Matt Dillon is billed over the hero, Ben Affleck. Dillion plays an over-the-top sleeze bag and is perfect in the part. Stiller doesn't have hero-good-looks, but he is a likeable everyman and has a great deadpan expression. This isn't the kind of movie one admits to liking, but it is a very funny comedy!