Roger Ebert's review
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- The hosts report Ebert gave the movie one star and put it on his most hated list, which the hosts say was normally reserved for movies like Showgirls; it is called the all-time roughest Ebert moment.
- The review is quoted: the film plays like an explosion at the screenplay factory, with a bewildered office boy rescuing pages at random that should have been mailed to the insurance company instead of filmed.
- The review is called very well written but a horrendous take.
- No defense is offered: Ebert mattered for film literacy, but with broad comedies he does not get why they work, like a basketball player who can't go left; Farley's weight at the center of the comedy may have made him sensitive. — Sean Fennessey
- Fat guys need to stick together: Farley uses his weight to his advantage while doing cartwheels, the same reason for loving Kevin Duckworth and Oliver Miller.