http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2007/10/15/movies-we-missed-flirting-with-disaster-1996.aspxAmericans will still pay to see Ben Stiller run his shtick into the ground, j udging from the healthy box-office return for The Heartbreak Kid . But we have to look back over a decade to remember when we actually thought Ben Stiller was funny, and beforeenCommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2007/10/15/movies-we-missed-flirting-with-disaster-1996.aspx#46174Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:03:24 GMTbd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:46174privateivan<p>I remember really liking this when I saw it on first release, and I'd love to see the film again--Tea Leoni, Lily Tomlin, the LSD sequence, everything was great--but Stiller has become SO toxic that I won't rent it--I refuse to let Typhoid Ben into my house, I hate him so much now. Really, he's worse than Robin Williams. </p> <img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=46174" width="1" height="1">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2007/10/15/movies-we-missed-flirting-with-disaster-1996.aspx#46018Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:22:26 GMTbd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:46018Dawn<p>You're right about one thing about this movie. Patricia Arquette as the put-upon wife (who by the way, wasn't pregnant, but had just had a baby) was my favorite part of the movie. But Stiller's antics and neurotic behavior quickly wore thin. But it was an excellent script (evidenced, as you said, by the stellar cast) and direction by David O. Russell. &nbsp;Probably my all-time favorite Ben Stiller, and one of the few of his that I actually liked.</p> <img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=46018" width="1" height="1">