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Say It Isn't So
20th Century Fox
MPAA RATING: R for strong sexual content, crude humor and language
Starring
Heather Graham,
Chris Klein,
Sally Field,
Orlando Jones,
Richard Jenkins,
Eddie Cibrian,
John Rothman,
and
Jack Plotnick
The Farrelly brothers put a comically depraved spin on a classic love story: Boy (Klein) meets girl (Graham); Boy falls in love (and has wild, non-stop sex) with girl; Boy loses girl...when they learn they are brother and sister! Or are they? (20th Century Fox)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Peter Gaulke
Gerry Swallow
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| DIRECTED BY: |
James B. Rogers
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 21, 2001
Video: August 21, 2001
Theatrical: March 23, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
95 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
60
Slate
David Edelstein
I must admit that I find those motifs -- and the Farrellys' universe in general -- more sweet than offensive, and I liked Say It Isn't So just so. So there.

50
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
There are laughs here and there, and Graham and Klein aren't nearly as grating as what surrounds them. But there's no getting around the fact that far from seeming a labor of love, Say It Isn't So seems merely labored.
50
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
It has incest, sweaty armpits, nipple rings, drool, an amputee, a stroke victim and an engagement ring stuck in a sticky place. And Heather Graham. All that, and it's not very funny.

50
Los Angeles Times
John Anderson
Ultimately a sweet movie, but one made by people who can't stoop to conquer without an almost audible strain on their own intelligence.

42
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
A thoroughgoing mediocrity that musters up just enough low-down chuckles to remind you that you're not watching another Freddie Prinze Jr. yawner.

38
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
It's so-so. As in mediocre. Even gross-out comedies need the stink of genius.

38
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Most of the film is one big blooper reel. There's not enough of a gap between the rejects and the finished movie.

38
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Unfortunately, this version of the familiar formula lacks the inspiration, genuine wit and raunchy charm of 1998's outrageous "There's Something About Mary."
38
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
It's getting tiresome, this stuff.
30
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
The movie is like a well-intentioned designer knockoff that doesn't know when to quit.

30
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
A few clumps of very funny stuff (including a quick tonsorial reference to "Mary") can't hide all the spots that are bald instead of bold.
30
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Maybe gross-out romantic comedy is a shallow well, and it was simply Rogers's misfortune to find himself with a bucket full of sludge.

25
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie doesn't understand that embarrassment comes in a sudden painful flush of realization; drag it out, and it's not embarrassment anymore, but public humiliation, which is a different condition, and not funny.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
In the same genre as the Farrellys' "There's Something About Mary" and "Dumb and Dumber," only lousy.

25
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Simply something you don't want to touch.
25
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
Aside from providing a lesson about movies with titles that provide their own bad review, Say It Isn't So gives low humor a bad name.

25
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
The brothers (Farrelly) produced Say It Isn't So, which bears their stamp in every frame and features all of the elements their movies are known for, except one: laughter.
25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
A one-joke, one-note turkey.

20
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
All you really need to know about Say It Isn't So,the latest flatulent noisemaker from the Farrelly Brothers' gross-out comedy factory, is that late in the movie, Chris Klein punches a cow from behind and finds his arm stuck inside.

20
LA Weekly
F. X. Feeney
The humor stays on one low level throughout, and thus fades fast.

20
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Elicits not the voluptuous discomfort stirred by the boys' (Peter and Bobby Farrelly) best corporeal shenanigans but creeping embarrassment for everyone on screen.

20
Variety
Robert Koehler
Even dumb farce has to be built on logic, but that crumbles in the face of a set of tired routines playing off of stock types.

20
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's a dull, unremarkable comedy.

20
Film.com
Tom Keogh
I don't like Say It Isn't So, but I understand its karmic inevitability.

20
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
What a jolly comedy theme: incest.

10
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
This time, the jokes about dead animals, gunk in the hair, incest and all other taboos are flatter than the road kill Gilly finds himself picking up for a living.

10
Chicago Reader
Reece Pendleton
A cringe-inducing flop.

10
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
A script by Peter Gaulke and Gerry Swallow that is minus a shred of Farrelly wit.

0
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A black comedy in the form of vicarious serial punishment.


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