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Shallow Hal
starring: Jason Alexander, Kyle Gass, Daniel Greene, Nan Martin, Bruce McGill
directed by: Bobby Farrelly

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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543040033
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 02, 2002
Running Time: 113 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Sales Rank: 8204
MPN: FOXD2004003D

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Editorial Review:

Description:
A hypnotized playboy (Jack Black) who can only see "inner beauty" doesn't realize that his gorgeous girlfriend (Gwyneth Paltrow) is actually a 300-pound-not-so-hottie. "Heartwarming and hilarious" (WFLD-TV), it's the BIGGEST love story ever told!

Amazon.com:
Coming from the creators of Dumb & Dumber and There's Something About Mary, the sensitivity of Shallow Hal seems like a minor miracle. The codirecting Farrelly brothers haven't forsaken their lowbrow inclinations, but this clever romantic fantasy offers unexpected substance with the same comedic effrontery that made the Farrellys famous. Their antihero is Hal (Jack Black), whose fixation on beautiful women is reversed (after an encounter with self-help guru Tony Robbins) so he can see only the inner beauty of "undesirables" like his new girlfriend Rosemary (Gwyneth Paltrow), now gorgeous in Hal's eyes despite being grossly obese. The movie's handling of this conundrum is sweetly sincere, poking fun at social prejudices while validating those (overweight, homely, disabled) who are often heartbroken by Hal's brand of shallowness. The concept won't hold up to scrutiny (i.e., the movie trades one set of stereotypes for another), but Shallow Hal works as an often hilarious reminder that physical beauty is only skin deep. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- There's A Little Bit Of Shallow Hal In All Of Us
"Shallow Hal" is a modern fairy tale. Like the beast in Walt Disney's "Beauty and the Beast," Hal (Jack Black) is obsessed with outward beauty. One day, Hal is hypnotized by self-help guru Tony Robbins. Now he only sees inner beauty. Soon he is falling in love with an extremely overweight Peace Corp volunteer, Rosie, who has a heart of gold (Gwyneth Paltrow). This is a very heart warming movie that teaches the viewer the importance of inner beauty. Helping those less fortunate than ourselves is more important and everlasting than having a temporary romantic fling with someone you've met at a nightclub. Unfortunately, there is a little bit of Hal in all of us.

I wish the language and the sexual innuendoes in "Shallow Hal" had been toned down to give it a PG rating. ... Read More

Rating:

- Realistic Hal
Rather than looking at this movie from an optimistic perspective, one in which the viewer is supposed to believe that this movie's plot is supposed to be about seeking the inner beauty in another, I choose to think of this movie another way. I view it as a sign of recent times of individualism and me-first attitudes that permeate Western culture.

Hal Larson (Jack Black) is a guy who is by all standards normal, or maybe even below average. Somehow, however, he thinks that he is only supposed to be with women of exquisite beauty. Of course, the only beautiful women who would actually go for him are ones with wretched insides, women who have incredibly low self-esteen and can't see their beauty. Along with Hal's best friend Mauricio (Jason Alexander) - another sub-5 on the 1 to ... Read More

Rating:

- A great funny movie
this a great chuckle a minute movie desitined to became a comic classic that you can watch time and time again

Rating:

- ENDEARING!!
This movie is superbly endearing and charming! the bad: I HATED Jason Alexander's character; and I also hated the "nurse Diesel" type nurse who was nothing more than a shriveled-up old sourpuss (and what was that scene in the car where her & Rosemary were talking? She was gorgeous in THAT scene, but not when Hal saw her! whazzupwidthat???)
the good: Hal was SO likeable, even as a jerk! (but I'm a big fan of Jack & Tenacious D-I even saw them in concert in Bham Alabama in '02); K.G. was gratuitously included in a small part; Gwynneth was actually kinda sweet in this one; I LOVED Rosemary's parents!; Leeboy was SO fat-yet-adorable!; they really did an awesome job of making the Ralph character look ugly and dorky, he is in fact a VERY gorgeous man!; Tony Robbins really did an excellent ... Read More

Rating:

- Shallow Hal is Done Backwards
I could see that the objective of the film makers was to show how stupid obsession with the outsides is...but I think they could have made the case so much more convincingly if they had the Paltrow part played by an actress who really is obese, and let us, as the audience, fall in love with her as the real person, while only occasionally showing that the Jack Black character sees her as skinny gorgeous Paltrow.

Instead they lead us to fall in love with skinny gorgeous Paltrow...and watching her in a fat suit with prosthetics still is not an actual obese woman. At all. In any universe.

The Spina Bifida guy was done the way they should have done the Paltrow part (not the actress's fault). He was so amazingly appealing, precisely because he was not fake.

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