Has Anyone Seen 'Along Came Polly'?

The movie with Ben Stiller and Jennifer Anniston? Anyway I've brought this up before but everytime I watch this movie, I am struck by how much Jennifer Anniston's character portray the typical Aquarian perosnality. And her being an aquarian supports this characterisation since actors are known to put themselves into the roles thay play to give a real and genuine performace.

Anyway I really relate to how the character Polly comes across: zaney, unconventional, friendly, dizzy, lacking in basic self confidence.

Has anyone else seent his movie? And if so, what did you think of it. I found the movie very funny actually. I must see if I can fish out on youtube the scene with Claude, the scuba instructor!

I've never seen that movie but anyway Jack Nicholson is taurus just as a point of information.

There's a guy I've always had a crush on who's a November sag just a day after Ben Stiller's actually. So I always fantasize that I;m Polly and he's Reuben when I watch this movie. I know, corny, but still 🙂

"Typical"? I detect some cynicsm there.

JMO but I find bodily humor distasteful. There are scenes that I would cut entirely from Along Came Polly before I could say that I liked it. It's not a bad movie entirely and it has its moments. But it's definately not a classic 'must see' for me.

Along Came Mary is probably the only toilet humor movie that I can deal with, but I do wish alot of the toilet humor was less.

Do you mean There's Something About Mary?

And what do you mean by "bodily humour"?

Starfish: I'm not taking it personally. I was just looking for something to back up what you said. Maybe you said it from a personal motivation.

Along Came Polly was a good example of the Aqua Girl.

Another example is Charlize Theron in Sweet November, or at least I think so.

Yes I'm having a blond moment... there is something about Mary is what I meant.

Bodily humor is where we're supposed to laugh at bodily functions. Farting, excessive sweating, peeing... I find these things unfunny, but that's just me. The worst part of Along Came Polly was at the Indian Restaurant as I find it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Bodily Humor as in Dumb and Dumber and THAT toilet scene. I still laugh at that...

I'm not a prude or anything but I don't see anything funny about the toilet scene in Dumb and Dumber. I find it just lacking in any humor.

Yes me too!! In fact I used to be a waitress and although I never poured red wine on top of white wine for a customer, I did used to make a quite a display when I had to open a bottle of wine at a customer's table! Lets just say it involved screwing and corks hehe!

"Bodily humor is where we're supposed to laugh at bodily functions. Farting, excessive sweating, peeing... I find these things unfunny, but that's just me. The worst part of Along Came Polly was at the Indian Restaurant as I find it leaves a bad taste in my mouth."

Ladyvie I don't like that kind of toilet humour just for the sake of it. Like you I find it simply very vulgar and crude and appeals to a very basic intellect. However in Along Came Polly, the toilet humour aspect was there to portray how a guy who is that repressed can end up in these kind of "compromising" positions! The bit with Rueben getting the runs after he ends up going to an ethnic restaurant with Polly despite having Irritable Bowel Syndrome simply because he couldn't bring himself to explain his condition to her, I guess it highlights the hilarious heights of embarassment that he landed himself in due to witholding this information!

The funniest parts of the movie were with Claude the scuba instructor talking in contrived French-English and Sandy Lyle (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, who is a failed actor who is still living in the illusion that his one time role in a hit movie years ago still defines him as a top notch actor - might I say this is quite Leo-like behaviour too coming into play!! ) playing the role of Judas in a community theatre presentation of Jesus Christ Super Star and his exagerrated ego manner, trying to play Jesus as well!

It's difficult to convey to someone else why and how you find something funny. I suppose it's like trying to explain someone why something is consdiered a piece of art; showing them how they must look at it in order to comprehend its beauty even though they are looking straight at it.

But yes Polly is so Aquarian, I think she rocks!

I know that it's hard to explain humor and why something is funny; it's just as hard explaining to someone why something isn't funny. Personally I find movies like SIM extremely funny, but do nothing in the box office. But movies where bodily functions are the joke... no thanks.

mellow I've seen it, loved it, hated it, and fell in love again....damn Jen is funny in that movie; she's so 'out there' she makes me really trip for her hard! lol but I feel like her character is my life!! lol but getting a preview of it I knew SOMEBODY was spyin' on me!!

*looks outside bathroom window, with the phone in hand and cleanex's from the tears*

Do you need a key finder??!!

"Ben Stiller's character has got to be a Virgo, though."

LOL yes Aguaaqi I would have to agree with you there! The scene were he's in the Men's Room with his boss Stan Endursky and Endursky starts touching him and patting him on the shoulder straight after doing a pee, and Rueben is politely and subtley suffering the intense anguish that only a cleanliness neurotic could feel in such a situation! Hehehe.

Anyway I think Claude the scuba instructor was the wisest guy of the movie when he told his Story of the Hippopotamus:

"I am a hippopotamus and zere is nothing I can do about it. And after this he live life 'appy. 'Appy as an 'ippo"

lol hell yea mellowDee, my memory suxxx for that stuff 😛 I'm pathetic with planning!!!

Hands up who is on the Non-Plan Plan??