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Commentary | Shallow Hal
🕑 Added 2025-05-23 22:00:06 +0000 UTCOhhhhh no.
Inspired by the bits that didn't age as well in Just Friends, my sister Jillian & I are continuing our educational research into whether or not various 2000's movies could be made today by watching a movie we KNOW has to have aged like milk.
Shallow Hal asks the question "what if larger people deserved love?" and it doesn't really answer that question so much as just keep asking it. Starring Jack Black, Gwyneth Paltrow in a f*t suit, and George Costanza, this movie would certainly be difficult to rewrite and make work in 2025... but I do think it's possible! Maybe!
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Pretty Much It
ohhhhh yeah that checks out
Ellis Golden
The "woman on the right" in the girl group club scene plays the Nun in the Conjuring series lol. That's why your mind jumps to scary witch
Tsiania Davis
“How much of your DNA is mine?” “Too much” 💀
Tsiania Davis
The woman playing Jen or the “ai woman”, was Jack Black’s girlfriend for like a decade, Laura Kightlinger. She appears in a lot of projects with him.
Ryan
One of those weird situations where you can tell the movie is making a real effort to have a good message, but there's only so far it can go due to being made when it was. And I remember even back then, a lot of critics called out that for all its speechifying about how inner beauty is what really matters, the nasty women appearing ugly to Hal still gives the message that looks are what count.
