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	Shallow Hal (2001): Reviews
		Shallow Hal is not so much about how gross people are as how beautiful they are once you get beyond the rude, noisy flesh.
		Shallow Hal begs for the Farrellys to unleash their arsenal of offensiveness, but they want to be liked so much they appear afraid to offend.
		Shallow Hal has none of that because the script is braindead and the plot is routine and predictable.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/shallowhal (1087 words)

	Shallow Hal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shallow Hal is a 2001 romantic comedy film starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Rosemary Shanahan, Jack Black as Hal Larsen and Jason Alexander as Mauricio.
		Hal eventually comes to terms with his feelings and his shallowness and makes up with Rosemary.
		In an interview with The Guardian on 27 January 2006, Paltrow admitted that Shallow Hal was in the category of "shite" films that she made only for money [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shallow_Hal (307 words)

	Shallow Hal
		Hal deeply, traumatized by his father's death, grows up to be a relatively nice person who is only interested in the most physically perfect of women.
		At the end of the movie Hal, predictably, starts to see Rosemary as she actually is rather then as he has been.
		All of that is pretty mild compared to this guy who apparently was really turned off to the whole idea of Shallow Hal because he's really turned on by the idea of 300 pound women.
	www.altgeek.org /digitalstatic/Movies/ShallowHal.htm (907 words)

	Shallow Hal Review 1
		"Shallow Hal" is the painfully unfunny and mildly offensive new film from the Farrelly Brothers, two originally funny people who have gone down hill since their big success in 1999.
		At age nine, Hal is told by his dying father that looks are all that matters when it comes to the female gender, and that he should only chase hot young tail.
		Hal takes dad's advice and runs with it all the way up to his adult years, where he is still a pathetic loser trying to score with women completely out of his league.
	www.moviefreak.com /reviews/s/shallowhal_1.htm (635 words)

	MOVIE REVIEW_Shallow Hal
		In Shallow Hal, every character Hal encounters is bludgeoned into two stereotypical molds: all ugly and undesirable women are inherently GOOD (volunteers for children's hospitals or animal shelters or looking after their sick grandmas) and anyone with less than 10% body fat HAS to be "ugly inside".
		Hal also initially pursues Rosemary because he is aroused pruriently by her sleek curves - there's no escaping this ultimate goal for a man ("seeing inner beauty" is always merely just one line of many we employ to achieve our goal of Laying That Pipe).
		For those who argue that the rich Rosemary accepted Hal as her mate even though he was from a lower social caste, remember that SHE was the undesirable party, with low self-esteem, so any overtures from a better-looking male would be regarded as issuing from a higher status (the visually-pleasing plane of existence) and welcomed.
	www.poffysmoviemania.com /ShallowHal.html (2846 words)

	DVD Review - Shallow Hal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Hal (Jack Black) and his best pal Mauricio Wilson (Jason Alexander), are two dumpy guys with unrealistic expectations when it comes to women.
		Before he knows it, Hal is scoring with all manner of beautiful women and having the time of his life.
		"Shallow Hal" is a fairly formulaic film that would seem trite and patronizing in the hands of most filmmakers.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/shallow_hal.shtml (903 words)

	The Flick Filosopher \| Shallow Hal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Hal doesn't see men's inner beauty unless the model- gorgeous male faces and buff bodies he sees can later be contrasted with off-kilter features and obesity.
		Shallow Hal is a gender-reversed Beauty and the Beast, wherein the "beautiful" boy must learn to love the "beastly" girl.
		Shallow Hal is still shallow Hal -- this hardly changes, until the unconvincing ending, and perhaps not even then.
	www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/014q/shallowhal.shtml (767 words)

	SHALLOW HAL (PG-13): ChildCare Action Project (CAP) Media Analysis Report MAR21095
		As a young teen, Shallow Hal (Jack Black) was taught by his dying father, which the scriptwriters chose to make a reverend, that a beautiful woman is voluptuous and sensuous and glowing with sex appeal.
		Hal met again the adorable little girl with a heart of gold who this time, though the same little girl, was horribly disfigured by burns.
		Hal did not see the burns when he had his "gift" and fell in love with her charm and inner beauty.
	www.capalert.com /capreports/shallowhal.htm (2215 words)

	HPR1.com / Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It’s no wonder then, that “Shallow Hal” should join their crazy parade, even if it is the one film in their oeuvre most obviously calculated to deliver a bouquet of warm-fuzzies by the end.
		Hal remains unrepentant until a chance encounter with self-help guru Tony Robbins (playing himself) in a mysteriously malfunctioning elevator changes the course of his life.
		At first, Rosemary assumes Hal’s flirtations are nothing more than cruel, ironic jabs, but eventually she begins to believe his sincerity and the two fall in love.
	www.hpr1.com /archives/Nov1501/movies.htm (1111 words)

	Reviews - Shallow Hal
		Hal is instantly smitten by her and an idyllic romance begins, one in which Hal envisions Rosemary's kindness and humour as female physical nirvana.
		Hence, when the spell is broken and Hal is no longer open-minded, he must face the frumpy, unrecognisable (to him) Rosemary and learn a valuable lesson: never judge people by their looks.
		The Farrellys claim that Shallow Hal is their "most emotional" film, representing a new direction in their work with its focus on "a guy who finds his soul and realises what's truly important." But for the rest of us, Shallow Hal is a message comedy propagating values that are too oBuena Vista Internationalous and sappy.
	www.unreel.co.uk /reviews/s/Shallow_Hal/index.cfm (936 words)

	The Trades - Shallow Hal
		“Shallow Hal” is the story of Hal (Jack Black), a man addicted to loving superficial women, who is forced to see the inner beauty of the most unattractive women.
		Hal is magically altered by Robbins, forcing him to see less attractive women for their true beauty.
		If “Shallow Hal” had about 5-10 minutes trimmed of, and the pace was quickened a bit, it would surely be considered as one of the best comedies this year.
	www.the-trades.com /column.php?columnid=895 (682 words)

	Shallow Hal
		Shallow Hal is their attempt to soften their image.
		Hal meets Rosemary (Gwyneth Paltrow, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Anniversary Party), a striking (and thin) blond, and begins dating her.
		Rosemary doesn't understand why Hal thinks she's thin and gets sick of his jokes, but still stays with him because he is kind and is showering her with attention.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/shallow_hal.html (651 words)

	Shallow Hal (2001): Gwyneth Paltrow, Jack Black, Jason Alexander, Tony Robbins - PopMatters Film Review
		Anyhow, after his transformation Hal meets and falls almost immediately in love with Rosemary Shanahan (Gwyneth Patlrow), who, as you already know from the film's advertising blitz, is a big fatty, even though when Hal looks at her, all he sees is the ethereal Gywnnie.
		Hal has a crisis, realizes the only solution is to become re-hypnotized, avoids Rosemary like the plague, and, when this solution doesn't materialize, realizes he loves her no matter what she looks like.
		At the beginning of her relationship with Hal, Paltrow does a nice job expressing Rosemary's wariness at Hal's attentions, her awareness of the world's discriminations, and still, her willingness to believe that Hal might be true.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/s/shallow-hal1.shtml (1119 words)

	Shallow Hal (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A shallow man falls in love with a 300 pound woman because of her "inner beauty".
		Hal gets trapped in an elevator with a guy who opens Hal's mind to the inner beauty of women.
		Hal then suddenly finds the more unattractive girls perfect for him and this leads to some funny scenes.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0256380 (453 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: Shallow Hal
		He may be shallow, but Hal's feelings run deep when he meets the perfect girl.
		Despite the good performances and laughs, "Shallow Hal" fails for 2 reasons: (1) we expect the Farrelly Brothers to shock us, and this film does anything but, and (2) an entire film of nothing but running sight gags gets a little annoying at times.
		"Shallow Hal" is good for some laughs but--for anything more--it really is as shallow as they come.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/shallowhal.html (628 words)

	Moviehole.net - Shallow Hal
		Riddled with cheekiness yet sugarcoated with syrupy sweetness, "Shallow Hal" is a return to form for infamous mud-dirt comedy makers, The Farrelly's.
		Naturally Hal grows up to follow the counsel, and when we meet him, and friend Maurico (Jason Alexander) they're skirt-chasing the sexiest of femme fatales around the dance floor.
		Stuck in the work elevator, Hal is forced to listen to the infamous guru and allows himself to be hypnotized.
	www.moviehole.net /reviews/20020113_201.html (753 words)

	James Sanford reviews Shallow Hal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		While Hal is not a particularly gorgeous creature himself, he insists on physical perfection in the women he dates.
		Hal's compliments nearly bring her to tears since they only underline her low self-esteem and her uneasiness with her body.
		Although "Hal" manages to work in a few of the gross-out gags the Farrellys have built their careers on, this is easily the most serious-minded film they've ever made.
	www.interbridge.com /jamessanford/shallowhal.html (553 words)

	CNN.com - Review: 'Shallow Hal' cute, but shallow - November 9, 2001
		Hal Larson [Jack Black, best known for his role in "High Fidelity" (2000)] is so shallow he could go deep sea fishing in pond scum.
		Despite the fact that Hal is desperately lacking in the looks department, he insists on hitting only on supermodels and centerfolds.
		Here is the film's main conceit -- the audience, and Hal, see Gwyneth as she really is with only an occasional glimpse of her in a fat suit.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/09/review.shallow.hal (613 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Shallow Hal"
		"Shallow Hal" opens with a dying man's advice to his young son, and they're words to live by: "Don't be satisfied with routine poontang." If part of what people love the Farrelly brothers for is their audacious crudeness -- it's actually an extraordinarily refined brand of crudeness -- that line certainly promises a wild ride.
		Hal (Jack Black) is a pudgy, not overly good-looking guy who, after taking the advice of his dying dad, nevertheless thinks he's entitled to the most gorgeous babes.
		Even though we're seeing the "thin" Rosemary, the one Hal sees, her end of the canoe is slung low in the water, while Jack, at the back end, is hiked high in the air.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2001/11/09/shallow_hal (795 words)

	Shallow Hal gushing fan page
		Hal's apartment was in university student housing, due to a computer glitch the university made in 1982.
		Since Tanya wasn't in the script, Hal had to be shown seeing some other woman with "inner ugliness." He saw a heavyset woman obnoxiously hogging one of the treadmill machines in the gym, which was exactly how the rest of the world saw her.
		When Hal was kissing the maid under the mistaken impression that she was Rosemary/Kimberly, the mom called out the maid's name from around the corner and Hal managed to stop kissing her just in time before mom came into view.
	home.netcom.com /~rogermw/ShallowHal.html (9409 words)

	'Shallow Hal'
		"Shallow Hal" stars Jack Black, who gave a breakout performance in "High Fidelity" and is a singer with the outrageous goof-rock duo Tenacious D. Here, he plays Hal, who we first meet as a 9-year-old being given ill-conceived advice from his father, on his deathbed -- and a morphine drip.
		Hal cannot really remember his father but his words obviously stayed with him.
		The adult Hal works for a North Carolina company called JPS Funds, where colleagues counsel him that picking women based solely on looks "might not be the way to go about it." A beautiful neighbor who went out with him once no longer wants to see him and suggests he move.
	www.post-gazette.com /movies/20011109shallow1109fnp6.asp (793 words)

	SHALLOW HAL - DVD
		When Hal comments to Rosemary's slim mother, "Wow, now I see where Rosemary gets her figure!" the discomfort of the situation is obvious, but again, the Farrellys deliciously complicate their message by later revealing that Rosemary's mother is also morbidly obese.
		Shallow Hal is much more than a series of politically correct cheap shots at its audience--dismissing it as such would be as misguided as, yes, judging a book by its cover.
		Shallow Hal, though it has its share of gags, is the least slapstick of the Farrellys' oeuvre; it's a deficiency more than made up for by the film's subtly incisive observation, the mark of mature comedy.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/shallowhal.htm (984 words)

	Images - Shallow Hal
		Instead, we see what Hal sees, a beautiful woman who would be the envy of any man. The comedy then comes not from the spectacle of watching an overweight woman nearly capsize a canoe or catapult a little boy out of a pool.
		But Hal is persistent and gradually she warms to him--and thus romance (of a highly unusual variety) is born.
		Shallow Hal is evidence of the Farrelly Brothers' growing maturity as filmmakers.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue10/reviews/shallowhal/text.htm (1012 words)

	Shallow Hal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jack Black plays Hal, an average guy in an average city with an above average libido and marching orders from his dying Dad to never make a play for a female who is anything less than a babe.
		Instantly, Hal is smitten with all sorts of females who are gentle, friendly and sincere.
		She also is the daughter of the owner (Joe Viterelli) of Hal's company, which results in his sudden ascension to the executive floor.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /hollywoodreporter/reviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1096030 (675 words)

	Shallow Hal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		After they have spent years making fun of the crippled, the retarded, the deformed and even the normal, they are now giving us a lecture on how beautiful people are inside, if we are only willing to look past their unibrows and iron lungs.
		One day, Hal meets late-nite infomercial king Tony Robbins (playing himself) in an elevator, the elevator gets stuck, they get to talking, and Robbins imparts some type of hypnotic suggestion which allows Hal to see people from then on as they really are inside, rather than as they appear externally.
		Since Hal is now hitting on a steady diet of fat ugly chicks, he starts to have unprecedented success with women, and he's happy because in his own perceptions he seems to be scoring with the entire Ford Modeling Agency.
	www.scoopy.com /shallowhal.htm (998 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Shallow Hal [2002]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jack Black is the Hal of the title, a man whose less than commendable attitude to women is suddenly altered by the rather credibility-stretching plot device of a chance meeting with a hypnotist.
		Henceforth Hal is only capable of seeing the beauty within, a development that allows for much humour at the expense of the less fortunate in the name of some sort of social comment.
		The twist at the end of the movie is that Hal has become much more messed up in the head than you previously realised by the tall guy and he still fancies the fat girl even hugging her and saying she was beautiful.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005RDQF (1220 words)

	Amazon.com: Shallow Hal: DVD: Jason Alexander,Kyle Gass,Daniel Greene,Nan Martin,Bruce McGill,Rob Moran,Gwyneth ...
		Jack Black is Shallow Hal, a superficial skirt chaser who, after a mind altering experience with a self-help guru, doesn't realize that his gorgeous girlfriend (Gwyneth Paltrow) is actually a 300-pound not-so-hottie.
		Hal continues to see only the inner beauty of all those whom he meets, until he is brought back to a jarring reality by his erstwhile best friend.
		Hal is a shallow jerk cruising the nightclubs to find that perfect physical specimen his father described.
	www.amazon.com /Shallow-Hal-Jason-Alexander/dp/B00005JKLQ (1854 words)

	Shallow Hal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Hal (Jack Black of HIGH FIDELITY) is a "regular guy" who has no luck with women because he only wants to be with women who look like supermodels.
		Others, like Hal's slimy friend Mauricio (Jason Alexander), see Rosie for what she is, a 300-pound woman, but Hal can only see the beauty on the inside, so to him she looks like Gwyneth Paltrow.
		SHALLOW HAL is outrageous and funny, occasionally exceeding the bounds of good taste, but it's also a touching love story.
	www.videoflicks.com /titles/1110/1110339.htm?23134 (586 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Shallow Hal
		Ostensibly a comedy about a shallow nerd captivated by a 300lb rhinoceros, it's really a parable about not judging people on appearances - albeit one laced with the sort of juvenile gags which made "There's Something About Mary" and "Dumb and Dumber" such guilty pleasures.
		Hal Larson (Black) has grown up living by his father's deathbed dictum that beauty is the only thing that matters.
		Hilarious in parts, sickeningly sentimental in others, "Shallow Hal" has the Farrellys trying to expand their range, with only mildly successful results.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2002/01/15/shallow_hal_2002_review.shtml (369 words)

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