The Heartbreak Kid (2007)
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Reviews Counted:151
Fresh:46
Rotten:105
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Despite some amiable performances, The Heartbreak Kid is neither as daring nor as funny as the Farrelly Brothers' earlier films.
Theatrical Release:05-10-2007
Synopsis: The Farrelly Brothers add their trademark bounty of bodily functions to this remake of Elaine May's 1972 comedy, THE HEARTBREAK KID. This time around Ben Stiller plays Eddie Cantrow, a 40-year-old... [More]
Starring: Ben Stiller, Michelle Monaghan, Malin Akerman, Jerry Stiller
Director: Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly
Reviews for The Heartbreak Kid
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Fairly entertaining. Full Review |
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The performances are almost uniformly engaging, with Stiller cycling through a catalog of sputtering resistance ploys that still work, no matter their familiarity. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Enjoyable comedy with several big laughs, though it runs out of steam way before the end and is badly let down by a messy final act. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Less raucous than Dumb and Dumber and has a performance from Ben Stiller that proves he can act better than most people give him credit for. Full Review |
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 2/5 |
A misogynist tract masquerading as a cheeky sex romp. Full Review |
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Stiller's timing rescues the first half, but his character is so dislikeable that the movie has nothing left going for it when the punchlines dry up, except for some smirking cynicism about relationships. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Whatever else Stiller is, he's not a "kid", and his behaviour as a 40-year-old looks even more ludicrous than Charles Grodin's did in the original. Full Review |
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3/5 |
The Farrelly brothers are back with their most satisfying comedy in a long while. Full Review |
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The whirring sound you hear is that of Neil Simon, screenwriter of the 1972 film on which this is louchely based, spinning in his retirement. Full Review |
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3/5 |
The disappointing upshot is that there is more calculated crudity than joie de vivre. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Lumpy and sour. A few good laughs, but mostly this is just uninspired, and deeply cynical to boot. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Too little soul to be sweet, too little energy to be a gagfest, the Farrelly Brothers squeeze out just enough laughs to make this watchable, but nowhere near enough to make it great. It breaks your heart, it really does... Full Review |
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3/6 |
The film’s best moment by far comes from Eddie’s under-the-thumb buddy Mac (Rob Corddry), who advises that the key to a healthy marriage is to ‘plaster on a smile and wait patiently for the sweet embrace of death’. Full Review |
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Stiller's Eddie is a thoroughly unsympathetic character; whiny, judgemental and utterly undeserving of the women who somehow fall for him. Full Review |
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3/5 |
For all its fluffed moments and saggy end, how many other films this year feature a donkey with an erection? Full Review |
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3/5 |
The sunny setting, attractive leads and reasonably involving story help make The Heartbreak Kid a watchable frippery. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
Lively and watchable, but never as funny or astute as it should be. Full Review |
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The dumbing down of the central joke just heightens its nastiness Full Review |
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3/10 |
...largely gross, mean-spirited, frustrating, and ugly. Full Review |
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