Cameron Diaz offers up a major throwback to There's Something About Mary in her latest Avaline promotion, and I'm living for it.
When the Farrelly brothers started working on a romantic comedy, a lot of their fans might have thought they were going soft. These guys were the first name in gross-out comedy, thanks to the slapstick gags and scatological humor in Dumb and Dumber and Kingpin. They’d become famous for making outrageous movies that pushed the boundaries of political correctness, so it seemed like a shame that they were wasting their talents on a love story. However, as it turned out, they were making a romantic comedy in the most Farrelly brothers way possible.