As one half of the filmmaking duo known as the Farrelly brothers, Peter Farrelly has been churning out slapstick comedies with his brother Bobby since “Dumb and Dumber” in 1994. Since then, both have introduced audiences to some unusual characters in films such as “Kingpin,” “There’s Something About Mary,” and “Shallow Hal.”

In the Farrelly brothers’ new film, “Hall Pass,” actors Owen Wilson (“Wedding Crashers”) and Jason Sudeikis (“Going the Distance”) play two men whose wives give them the opportunity to take a week off from marriage and have an affair.

During an interview with EXTRA, director/writer Peter Farrelly talked about his wife’s thoughts on making a movie centered on infidelity, what he thinks about film critics, and had just enough time to give us an update on their next movie, “The Three Stooges.”

EXTRA: Some married women are going to leave the theater after watching this movie and turn to their husbands and ask them, “Honey, if I were to give you a hall pass would you take it?” What’s the right answer?

Peter Farrelly: Not if you’re getting one, too, honey.

What did your wife think about the idea for the movie when you told her about it?

I gave my wife a draft and she read it and said, “I hate these people.” Originally, while the guys had the hall pass, the wives sat around at home biting their fingernails and wondering what they were doing. My wife didn’t think we were being fair to the women. She said, “If you get a hall pass, then I get a hall pass.” At that point, we realized it was becoming too guy-centric. From that point forward, when we were rewriting it, we were trying to be fair to both sides and be real ...