Looking Back: The Farrelly Brothers Used to Make Funny Comedies?

With a stretch of movies starting with Osmosis Jones in 2001, all the way to Hall Pass just last year, the recent “comedies” of brothers Peter & Bobby Farrelly between there have included Shallow Hal, Stuck on You, Fever Pitch and The Heartbreak Kid. It’s not exactly an Uwe Boll worthy line-up of films, but these are easily some of the worst comedies of their given years of release. Taking that into account, you’d think the Farrelly Brothers were just hacks who can’t seem to do anything but inexplicably fit Richard Jenkins into most of their films. But there was a time when the sibling duo actually used to make very funny movies. In “honor” of The Three Stooges, which currently sits with a low 43% on Rotten Tomatoes, I’d like to look back at the 8-year run of four films that gave Bobby and Peter Farrelly the career that they …