Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Outrageous and crude though its humor often is, the jokes in the Farrelly Brothers' most recent sideshow attraction are also intensely predictable, which keeps the movie from really lifting off. Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller and Matt Dillon all give their best shot to keeping the ball in the air, but for one thing, their presence is almost arbitrary in many scenes to the extent that Mary's humor is all visual and only rarely connected to dialogue; poor Cameron could be reciting Rilke beneath those "hair gel"-enhanced bangs and no one would know the difference. Then again, everyone else...
Once that semi-secret Bow Street organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine also used to occasionally pull off so-called pranks. Those were the days. RICHARD...
...such a complex figure that he can be played with any number of possible personalities, styles and underlying motives--Egan's seemed to be a rather ambivalent blend of melancholy, severity and occasional bouts of hysteria. His Hamlet also seemed to be thoroughly lacking in a sense of humor, which was too bad; it's often just that element of irony, of detached awareness of his own role-playing, which elevates Hamlet above being just another melodramatic hero...
...Horatio. The luminous Ophelia, of Jessica Kaye '00, too, began winningly enough, but she overplayed her madness scenes just slightly. By far the most effective of the supporting cast, Jim Augustine '01 made a hilariously funny, if somewhat unexpectedly young and savvy, Polonius; his lines were among the few humorous ones in the play which got the laughs they deserve. All the quick wit and self-deprecating humor seemed to be on the side of Augustine's Polonius, while Egan's Hamlet wore an unvarying and impenetrable mack of melancholy...
...Good Humor...