gwnightscream Jack Black, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jason Alexander star in this 2001 comedy. Black (School of Rock) plays Hal, an executive who is fixated on the physical beauty of women. Self-help guru, Tony Robbins appears as himself who meets Hal while stuck in an elevator and hypnotizes him to see their inner beauty. Paltrow (Iron Man) plays Rosemary, a pretty, self-conscious woman Hal finds romance with, but is really obese and Alexander (Pretty Woman) plays Hal's nit-picky best friend, Mauricio. This is a good comedy from the Farrelly brothers (Dumb & Dumber, There's Something About Mary) with a great cast and good make-up effects I recommend.

tbills2 Shallow Hal is shallow and can't get a date. Hal's a nice guy but he's always going for girls out of his league. Hal cares too much about outward appearances and not enough for a woman's inner beauty. Well, meet Tony Robbins, and now Hal can see women for who they truly are, making their inner beauty appear as outer beauty, but only to Hal.Shallow Hal is hilarious! It's genuinely sweet & basically comedy genius, like is Jack Black. Jack Black graces us all with his comedy sweetness, and man he's got a lot of it, with some to spare! Jack is 2 funny & 2 cool that he should be put in jail. Thanks, Farrelly Brothers! You guys are way 2 cool 2. Shallow Hal's 1 of my favorite comedies that can be watched and rewatched like 100 times because it is so sweet & so funny & so not ungood.When Shallow Hal meets Rosemary Shallow Hal enters the realm of super awesomeness. God Gwyneth Paltrow is hot. I mean she looks incredible in this movie & I swear she's the hottest girl in the whole wide world. I love you. Gwyneth haters get real. Gwyneth Paltrow is way 2 hot & it's not even fair. She's super hot. Gwyneth Paltrow is the sexiest girl ever, she looks seriously hot in Shallow Hal and I think I love her.Great music. Farrelly Brothers did it.

Cool Great Dane Good science-fiction film.The movie goes about fat people and how they can't get dates because they are fat and they annoy the hell out of beautiful slim people while dancing in dance floors. A really self-confident man (Anthony Robbins) changes the life of Hal (Jack Black) by jolting his nervous system. After this nervous system jolting Hal is able to comprehend that beautiful thin people were living inside the fat ugly people all along, so basically he got some fat-reducing glasses. Hal becomes unfattified.Hal goes on to dance with tons of pretty thin women trapped inside ugly, bad-haired, wart-friendly, elongated-nosed, fat humans. He then meets Rosemary (Gwyneth Paltrow) who, being the sexiest inner woman Hal has encountered, is also the fattest. At various points in the film we can see her "true" form on the reflections of some surfaces and when seeing her through the eyes of humans other than Hal. She's fat, like extremely fat on the outside and at one point you can actually see her cellulite, yuk! So they fall in love and have some fat sex all the while Hal is thinking he's having some super model sex.Hal's friend Mauricio (Jason Greenspan a.k.a. Jason Alexander) is a mutant and unable to score with any senorita, so he decides to ask the really self-confident man to un-unfattify Hal.When Hal becomes un-unfattified he can't understand why there is a robust woman eating his dinner at the restaurant.Mutant friend explains to an un-unfattified Hal why he's now seeing fat monstrous people instead of adorable exquisite humans. He then has a choice to make - either forget about fat Rosemary or accept her with all her chubbiness and have some lard-filled sex with her.At the end they get back together and do as fat people does: they go to hide somewhere in Africa hoping they can mix in with the indigenous bony starving population.All in all. A good film to watch on a gym day.

Spikeopath Hal Larsen (Jack Black) only ever dates beautiful trophy women on account of advice he received on his death bed from his father. However, a chance meeting with a self-help guru helps him to see inner beauty first and foremost. Soon after, he falls in love with his boss' severely overweight daughter, which as it raises eyebrows everywhere the couple go, Hal is oblivious as to what everyone else is on about.Tender, sweet and subtle are not words one readily attributes to the Farrelly Brothers, but in Shallow Hal they have managed to blend all three with their penchant for close to the knuckle humour.Gwyneth Paltrow in the dual role dons the fat-suit and once again showcases her unheralded comic timing, while Jack Black proves ebullient and engaging in a role that calls for him to shut out what he is actually meant to be seeing. In support Jason Alexander gets the weasel best friend comedy sidekick role, and is wonderfully abhorrent and good at keeping the cards close to his chest.It's never uproariously funny, but it doesn't need to be, it tickles where it needs to, and it prods the emotional psyche with requisite impact. In a world that has become obsessed with the girth and weight of a person, especially with women - and as it happens is led by Hollywood, Shallow Hal is refreshing entertainment. 7/10