The Farrelly brothers, who directed, take physical comedy to levels of intricacy not seen since silent movies.

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The Farrelly brothers try to be sensitive and miss the mark big time.

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As directed by the Farrelly brothers (Peter and Bobby), who co-wrote the script with Pete Jones and Kevin Barnett, the movie is a dispirited piece of work.

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The Farrelly brothers constantly make the jokes about fat women that they praise Black for not making, thereby reinforcing the very distaste that the movie is ostensibly trying to overthrow.

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Conventional wisdom suggests couples who live together should never work together, too -- and nowhere would that seem more advisable than in Hollywood -- but, then, the Farrelly brothers are all about damning conventional wisdom, aren't they?

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Well, with films people have actually seen and enjoyed nominated in a major category, perhaps the awards show will attract viewers who might not care to see Paul Haggis pontificate on the state of race relations amongst narcissistic Angelinos, but would tune in to see whether the Farrelly Brothers, Christopher Guest, or Alyson Hannigan take home a statue.

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