Say It Isn’t So

Reviewed by:
Eric Alt

A stroke victim getting into a fistfight? A legless man getting hit by a car? An entire plot about incest? You are forgiven for thinking this is the Farrelly Brothers’ follow-up to There’s Something About Mary. In fact, Say It Isn’t So is directed by some guy named James Rogers, who apparently worked on a few Farrelly movies. Hey, James, if you’re going to out-and-out rip someone off, you could at least manage to hijack a few more laughs.

Jo (Heather Graham) and Gilly (Chris Klein) are two small town kids who meet, fall in love, and then discover they’re siblings (if this took place in West Virginia, it would have been the reverse). After going their separate ways, Gilly finds out that they aren’t related after all and sets about winning her back. Along the way he encounters a legless hippie pilot (Orlando Jones), a few toughies, and more anal jokes than a South Park marathon. While there are a few legitimate laughs (we counted about four), Say It Isn’t So drags like no 93-minute film should and gets so bogged down with its “twisting” plot that it ignores huge chunks of it just to get to the ending. It almost feels like Rogers gathered the cutting-room floor scraps of Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin, and Mary and tried to stitch them into this movie. Sadly, it is so.

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