Worth watching. Nothing special, though.

Along Came Polly is your usual conventional by-the-numbers romantic comedy that is good for nothing more than a good laugh. As usual, these kinds of movies are reeled out frequently by the studios just to soak up some light money.

As the film opens, Reuben Feffer (Stiller) gets married to the girl of his dreams named Lisa (Messing). But while the two are enjoying their honeymoon, Lisa dumps Reuben for a muscle-bound nudist French scuba instructor (Azaria).

Reuben is heartbroken, but his best friend Sandy (Hoffman) encourages him to move on, get over Lisa and find someone else. At a formal party, he meets Polly Prince (Aniston) who was an old class mate of Reuben's. The two strike up a good friendship, although Reuben wants to take things further than that. But Polly, who's scared of commitment, is reluctant to move to the next level and troubles ensue.

Like I stated before, this is strictly a by-the-numbers affair that isn't a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination. There are a few good laughs, most of which are toilet oriented. Like most of Ben Stiller's films, his performance is good (although he always does the same type of role) and there are some funny, witty lines that he delivers. That said, the laughs are only occasional and there are very few that are actually memorable. And, like all movies in this vein, there are moments when the fun is over until the very end when things turn out okay. The same old formula is becoming very tiring!

Jennifer Aniston is at her usual standard here. She seemed to resemble her character from Friends in a sense. Philip Seymour Hoffman is actually pretty decent in an unusual change on his usual role. I never would have expected someone of his stature to pop up in a romantic comedy like this.

Along Came Polly was never meant to be anything groundbreaking or any sort of a masterpiece...and it isn't. That said, it isn't terrible either. I enjoyed the movie as it is told well and has some good gags (being from Australia, some of the Aussie gags had me in stitches). Nothing we haven't really seen before, but worth a rental at least.