Ben Stiller: 5 Awesome Performances and 5 That Sucked

3. Along Came Polly

Ugh... And I could leave it at that really, as that pretty much sums up my feelings toward Along Came Polly. I guess the major flaw of the movie is that it just doesn€™t have the comedy within to keep a 90 minute comedy movie afloat; not Stiller€™s fault, fair enough, but that still doesn€™t change the fact that his performance does nothing to remedy that. It€™s just unfortunate. I see Stiller in roles like this all too often, and each time I do I wince. Someone needs to slap his agent, because in Along Came Polly, he does himself a royal disservice. He€™s better than this, we know that from Tenenbaums and Flirting with Disaster, but unfortunately, it looks like the $$$€™s on the contract got the better of him, yet again. Fair enough I guess, he€™s only human.
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