Interesting remarks about Cameron Diaz -- I hadn't thought about the film as a projection of the male (or female?) hostility towards the most popular girl in school, and the cruelty of the gods towards lesser mortals. It does make sense (and of course all the dopy men get punished in the end, but one, so the goddess wins after all). The dog bit out the window is funny, beautifully timed, but of course one saw it a hundred times replayed before one actually got to see the film. I think you have to have a cruel streak to find much of the rest of the film funny, there is something debasing about it -- probably because the audience is made to be complicit.
yours, Peter T.