"As Leland, a client of Reuben's who with every daredevil stunt he partakes in plummets his chances of being insured by the company, Bryan Brown also stands out, bringing a daffy likability to a person oblivious to the danger he constantly puts himself in.
Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston as Reuben and Polly in "Along Came Polly" (2004)
Jake Gyllenhaal and Jennifer Aniston as Holden and Justine in "The Good Girl" (2002)
Aniston, who delivered the most powerful performance of 2002 in "The Good Girl", has followed up this success with two phoned-in love interest roles.
Polly's consistent noncommittal attitude toward everything she does stops being endearing midway through and becomes downright frustrating. By the conclusion, when she threatens to move away again simply because of her conflict with Reuben, you have half a notion to slap some sense into Polly". Source: www.all-reviews.com
"Along Came Polly". Though plainly Ben Stiller's vehicle, it features an endearing, oddly delicate performance by Aniston. Unsurprisingly, this film works for her in ways that Bruce didn't, for the good reason that Stiller is, in fact, a generous costar, unlike the increasingly excruciating Jim Carrey, who sucks the air out of every scene he's in. 
By contrast, Stiller, even while delivering his usual broadly poor-sap comedy, also falls back enough to grant his fellow players a chance to breathe.
Stiller's Reuben Feffer, a calculatedly neurotic risk assessment analyst, is at the mercy of a series of cretins, egomaniacs, and cruel circumstances. During the film's first moments, on his wedding day, Reuben frets that, with 23% of the guests over 70, one is likely to break a hip on the newly waxed floor.
When Reuben is assigned to assess the world-traveling daredevil, place-jumper, and crocodile wrestler, Leland (Bryan Brown), the decision looks, on its face, easy. The man is clearly uninsurable,
based on Reuben's patented assessment software, he's also completely charming and irresistibly high-spirited; that is, he embodies a life lesson for Reuben, even as he appears to put his life in jeopardy, repeatedly.
Reuben's destined to fulfill his predictable plan and Polly's equally typed, "on the non-plan plan." Source: www.popmatters.com
Polly's consistent noncommittal attitude toward everything she does stops being endearing midway through and becomes downright frustrating. By the conclusion, when she threatens to move away again simply because of her conflict with Reuben, you have half a notion to slap some sense into Polly". Source: www.all-reviews.com
"Along Came Polly". Though plainly Ben Stiller's vehicle, it features an endearing, oddly delicate performance by Aniston. Unsurprisingly, this film works for her in ways that Bruce didn't, for the good reason that Stiller is, in fact, a generous costar, unlike the increasingly excruciating Jim Carrey, who sucks the air out of every scene he's in. 
By contrast, Stiller, even while delivering his usual broadly poor-sap comedy, also falls back enough to grant his fellow players a chance to breathe.
Stiller's Reuben Feffer, a calculatedly neurotic risk assessment analyst, is at the mercy of a series of cretins, egomaniacs, and cruel circumstances. During the film's first moments, on his wedding day, Reuben frets that, with 23% of the guests over 70, one is likely to break a hip on the newly waxed floor.
When Reuben is assigned to assess the world-traveling daredevil, place-jumper, and crocodile wrestler, Leland (Bryan Brown), the decision looks, on its face, easy. The man is clearly uninsurable,
based on Reuben's patented assessment software, he's also completely charming and irresistibly high-spirited; that is, he embodies a life lesson for Reuben, even as he appears to put his life in jeopardy, repeatedly.
Reuben's destined to fulfill his predictable plan and Polly's equally typed, "on the non-plan plan." Source: www.popmatters.com
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