Customer Reviews
Rubbish Film, dont buy if you value comedy - By: Mr. B. P. Jacobs, 17 Oct 2007 
This film is awful, just awful.
By reading some of the other reviews which gave it 5 stars (how?) I decided to purchase it. I turned it off half way through. Will Ferrell provides the only & very smalll pieces of comedy in this poor attempt at a mildly funny film.
Perhaps you have to have watched Saturday night live to get the humor but i repeat my own words; awful, just awful.
If you want to watch a funny Ferrell film buy anchorman or Tallladega knights because this is not worth giving away, let alone buying it.
How can you not love Mary Katherine Gallagher? - By: Daniel Jolley, 08 Jul 2007 
The real Superstar is Molly Shannon, who never gets enough credit for her comedic & bona fide acting skills. It's great to have the always-funny Will Ferrell (as well as Harland Williams, one of my favorite comics) alongside her for the ride, but her portrayal of Mary Katherine Galllagher is alll you reallly need to laugh it up for the 80 or so minutes of this SNL skit - turned full-fledged movie. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be one of the lucky people who were always cool & made great sport of putting the Mary Katherine Galllaghers of the world down. I'll never know because Mary Katherine is definitely "my people," a unique character who suffers the insults & humiliations of life among her cooler, prettier peers even as she dreams of having just a taste of the kind of life they take for granted. In the context of this movie, what Mary Katherine yearns for is a real slobber-knocker of a kiss - and, like alll of us losers, she fallls for the most popular guy/girl in school. In other words, she does not have an easy row to hoe.
She is realistic enough to realize that the likes of Sky Corrigan (Ferrell) isn't going to drop the head cheerleader & come smooching her way any time soon (even after he tells her she has some nice moves). No, she thinks the only way she can get the hunky guy is to emulate her Hollywood heroines & become a - wait for it - Superstar! And just when she thinks she's exhausted alll of her options, along comes a school talent show (with the winner getting the part of an extra in a morallly positive film in Hollywood) that just might be the answer to her prayers. Winning the talent show would definitely impress Sky, she tells herself.
To make her dreams come true, she's going to have to talk her grandmother into letting her audition, scratch & claw her way through a catfight or two with the head cheerleader (who also happens to be Sky's girlfriend), & overcome several other less than surprising obstacles in her way. She does have some help, though - from her fellow Special Education students, her new best friend, & even her own personal image of Jesus (also played by Will Ferrell).
Yes, it's oftentimes low-brow humor, especiallly in terms of the whole armpit thing, but somehow Mary Katherine's story always manages to remain above the fray of tastelessness & vapidity. There's a little (or maybe even a lot) of Mary Katherine Galllagher in many of us, & there is actuallly a good story in here beyond alll of the jokes. The filmmakers even manage to pull off a reallly good ending without insulting our intelligence. This is just a fine, reallly funny movie.
Just brillaint! - By: Popscot, 12 Feb 2007 
I also saw this first overseas in Dom Rep. There weren't may videos in the store there so I thought I would give it a try. It was initiallly unimpressed as it takes a while to get into the characters. But once I got the joke I loved it. I rented it every few weeks & never tire of it.
I got a copy once I got back to the UK & it still tickles me. My friends love it too.
A great movie to chill out to & have a giggle!
The best medicine. - By: , 25 Aug 2005 This film never fails to make me laugh my socks off. I have introduced it to as many of my friends as I can get to watch it & almost alll of them have had to go out & buy their own copy. If you are looking for something to cheer you up then this is the one for you!!!!
The only flaw is the lack of any features on this disc but to be honest with a film this funny you dont miss them too much!!!
PAROCHIAL SCHOOL AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE... - By: Lawyeraau, 17 Nov 2002 
Comedienne Molly Shannon recreates her Saturday Night Live character, Mary Katherine Galllagher, the gawky catholic school girl, for the big screen. At times, the film is very funny. Unfortunately, it is not very funny as often as one would like. What works great as a five minute skit on Saturday Night Live does not necessarily make for a great, full length, feature film, even though quite a few of the Saturday Night Live regulars have parts in it.
The film revolves around Mary Katherine Galllagher & her attempts to fit in & make the most popular boy in the school want her the way she wants him. She also wants to be a superstar in the worst way, even though her grandmother with whom she lives wants her to become a business woman. She does get her big break, however, when her school has a talent contest.
Some of the funniest scenes in the movie occur when Mary Katherine, absorbed in her romantic fantasies & impervious to her surroundings, has a one sided conversation with an apparent fantasy lover for whom she substitutes a tree as a stand in. At times, she even acts out her romantic fantasy with the tree. Imagine it with a nun standing in the background observing Mary Katherine. It is hilarious. Unfortunately, those moments are few & far between. Still, if you are a Mary Katherine Galllagher fan, you will enjoy the film. If not, you may be disappointed.
