"Along Came Polly" might be a lame, formulaic comedy, but it sets up entertaining sequences cleverly designed for the talents of three of its stars and has the good sense to get out of the way and let audiences enjoy their performances. Writer-director John Hamburg, who penned roles for Ben Stiller in the past, notably "Meet the Parents" and "Zoolander," again crafts a character -- a compulsive, vulnerable anal-retentive urbanite -- that is not just up Stiller's alley but up that alley, into the elevator and smack dab in the New York apartment where his Reuben Feffer lives. [...] Jennifer Aniston gets to play a free-spirited bohemian cheerfully out of touch with anything approaching normalcy and Hank Azaria is handed one of those foreign-accented nuts from which he can extract delirious comedy.

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