First There was something about Mary, then he met the parents, and then suddenly, along came Polly. Have you ever wondered if it was possible to typecast yourself in all of your own rehashed movies? Ben Stiller is horribly afflicted with self-inflicted typecasting.

Let me begin with a personal disclaimer: The only thing that lured me into seeing this movie was the ferret. I’ve been an avid (somewhat obsessive) ferret owner for roughly six years now and I simply could not resist. After seeing the trailer with little Adolfo running around, I was lured into and hour and a half of pure torture, haplessly awaiting cute ferret scenes, only to be disappointed that I had previously seen them all in the trailer. On another exasperating note, every scene involving the ferret, they had incorporated these ridiculous ferret sounds. I’d love to know where they found sound samples of that nature and just exactly what it was that made that noise.

Anyway, let’s sum up the plot, shall we? Guy marries girl. Guy and girl go on honeymoon. Girl sleeps with scuba instructor. Guy leaves girl. Guy runs into old classmate from high school. Thus, Along Came Polly.

Yeah.

Well, somewhere in between there are other irrelevant, underdeveloped characters and blatant stereotypes. Oh, and a ferret.

Eventually the plot thickens, so thick it will suffocate you and whisk you off into a dreadful movie coma, where you will be plagued with nail-biting suspense as you violently hang on the edge of your chair, desperately awaiting Ben Stiller’s character’s (was it Reuben?) gut-wrenching, heartbreaking decision: Stay with Polly or salvage his marriage with his wife who decided to return to the movie fifteen minutes before the credits?

At this point, the drama is so intense I actually open my eyes to watch the rest of the movie!

Ben chases down Polly before she ditches town. It’s very whimsical with the slow-motion effect of him running after the taxi. Something I had NEVER seen before in a movie! Then BAM!!! A semi slams right into him! All while Polly watches from the taxi, then they zoom in and then Adolfo, the ferret, has a close-up and he brutally attacks Polly, in an obvious attempt to voice his opinion of the movie and turns to give the camera the finger.

Wait, I guess the dramatic conclusion didn’t really wake me up.

Okay - he does chase Polly down and you know how that goes. But it gets better. Just as you relish in the happy union of these two wonderfully scripted characters, you know you are only seconds away from the best part of the movie, THE CREDITS!

So, if you have some sort of inclination to view this film, just watch the trailer. Unless of course you are a Ben Stiller fanatic, then you will be astounded by this movie that has been marked with such a clever, unique story.