One plot hole: Mary is a bore

Not a plot hole

but she's in to sports and hot dogs

This is even more of a reason I want a sequal.

This was Cameron Diaz's first comedy? Correct? She's done a ton of comedies since and I have to say her movies are funny if they let Cameron Diaz take the reigns with the character Har and Ben stiller would be awesome .

I really want to push for sequal

yet, there's something about Cameron...

nobody can resist a Hispanic woman

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Movies are a visual medium, of course, so casting is important. They didn't find a 'radiating girl' (they're rare, and hard to find), so they just cast someone 'good-looking' to tell the STORY of there being something about Mary.

We don't experience it as an audience directly from Cameron Diaz, but we can still understand it through the passion and actions of the men that suffer from the infatuation.

We can know it second-hand through the STORY, not directly the visuals or personality of Cameron Diaz herself.

The easiest way to understand what that 'something' is, is to experience it about someone else, and then relate that feeling to what these men must be feeling. We can realize this movie is the story about this kind of thing happening, and the problematic ludicrous extremes that this kind of overly powerful infatuation can lead to.

Of course this is a comedy, so it takes things to a silly goofiness, and it's a hollywood movie, so it has a happy ending (though these stories usually don't have that in real life).

The best thing is to not take it so LITERALLY and DIRECTLY (as if it was about Mary, Cameron Diaz, etc.), but more METAPHORICALLY and as something to RELATE to, when you are experiencing this 'something' about some woman that you suddenly feel something powerful about (even against your own consent).

Also, a good-looking, attractive, sexy, young woman with pretty face and good body doesn't really NEED to be anything other than a 'bore' - these women get enough male attention of all kinds, regardless of how boring they are. Women aren't required to entertain or to be witty, or even to have an interesting personality, like men are. They can get by solely on their looks.

The problem with Cameron Diaz is that in the end, she can't -quite- pull it off - she comes off as an 'ordinary' woman with 'ok looks' instead of super-attractive Cosmic level 'something'. She looks good, but she's not "super beautiful".

Having short man-hair doesn't help..

I'm not sure what personality people want Mary to have - she's friendly, smart, witty, vibrant, and generous.
The film might have worked better though if they'd gotten a less attractive actress who just had "something". The Monica character in Rome With Love would be a good example. And for me, in Mean Girls, Lindsay Lohan is the least conventionally attractive of the 4 plastics, and yet I couldn't take my eyes off her when she was on screen, because she had/has that "something".