Jerry Stiller

Don't go along to this expecting a risque sex comedy. You ain't gonna find it. What you willl view though is an anemic romcom - smutty, obvious and unoriginal.

In 1998, the show said to be "about nothing" – which, as we all know, was really about the minutia of our everyday lives – finally bowed out after nine wonderful years.

Dumb and Dumber and There’s Something about Mary are consistently voted as two of the funniest comedies ever.

Despite one of the more bizarre heritages of recent movies — it’s a film based on a musical based on a film — Hairspray defies logic to be one of...