Synopsis
Reuben Feffer is a guy who's spent his entire life playing it safe. Polly Prince is irresistible as a free-spirit who lives for the thrill of the moment. When these two comically mismatched souls collide, Reuben's world is turned upside down, as he makes an uproarious attempt to change his life from middle-of-the-road to totally-out-there.
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Cast
- Ben StillerReuben Feffer
- Jennifer AnistonPolly Prince
- Philip Seymour HoffmanSandy Lyle
- Debra MessingLisa Kramer
- Alec BaldwinStan Indursky
- Hank AzariaClaude
- Bryan BrownLeland Van Lew
- Jsu GarciaJavier
- Michele LeeVivian Feffer
- Bob DishyIrving Feffer
Recommendations
- 70
Washington Post
Is Along Came Polly a great film? No, probably not, but it is a very amusing one. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
Along Came Polly is nothing if not a chick flick for guys. - 63
Charlotte Observer
Polly works best when writer-director John Hamburg gets his mind out of the water closet, and it's in there about two-fifths of the way. The rest of the time, he's assembling a hit-and-miss comedy with reasonable numbers of laughs and lots of personality from its two leads. - 63
Philadelphia Inquirer
The best reason to see Along Came Polly is the supporting cast. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Might be a lame, formulaic comedy, but it sets up entertaining sequences cleverly designed for the talents of three of its stars and has the good sense to get out of the way and let audiences enjoy their performances. - 50
Variety
Writer-director John Hamburg does everything he can to pair up Ben Stiller's stiff, safety-first corporate man with Jennifer Aniston's free spirit in Along Came Polly, but the two are so fundamentally incompatible that story loses credibility long before the gags stop coming. - 50
Chicago Tribune
Some movies run out of gas. This one could use an alternate fuel source. - 50
USA Today
The civilized running time and breezy editing between scattershot plot threads keep the attention in a superficial way, and it would be misstating the case to deny that the movie has some chuckles (the kind that don't linger).
