Say It Isn't So is a rather lame attempt at a Farrelly Brother's film, produced by them but apparently without their direct input. Kingpin, Dumb And Dumber and There's Something About Mary are fine, funny films but Say It Isn't So isn't.

We find Gilly played by Chris Klein (American Pie) falling for Jo played by Heather Graham (Boogie Nights, Austin Powers). They become a couple but then are told that they are brother and sister. They are heart broken, and Jo leaves abruptly to become engaged to her former boyfriend who's not nice but is very rich.

Then Gilly finds out that he's not Jo's brother, but Jo's mother Valdine (Sally Field) tries to keep Gilly from Jo. Valdine wants the money. Comedies need to produce heroes, even pathetic ones, but Say It Isn't So seems to be only full of victims.

We can laugh at comedy if there seems some hope beyond the disasters but if everyone just suffers, well that's just unfortunate. A clown falling is funny only if we know that he's not really being hurt - if we haven't got that trust then it just becomes nasty. But nasty can even be funny if it's done right.

The nastiest character in Say It Isn't So, and probably potentially the funniest, is Sally Field's ambitious Valdine, but by the time she gets her comeuppance well it seemed we needed her to survive. And there's little relief provided by any of the others.

Gilly just stays a sad sack in spite of the indignities heaped upon him It just becomes humiliation. And Heather Graham perhaps just hasn't got the luminosity of Cameron Diaz's Mary in There's Something About Mary.

Orlando Jones as the leg less pilot Dig added some much needed colour but Say It Isn't So still couldn't fly in spite of him.

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