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10/06/07
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
Top Critic'Please be shocked into fits of laughter by our impish rudeness!' the Farrellys seem to say. 'Please forget the other, better R-rated comedies you've seen this year!'
10/06/07
OK, just so long as you don’t expect the old Farrelly magic.
10/06/07
With the brilliance of what Stiller has done before to compare it to, the title seems fitting on a couple of levels.
10/06/07
A bitter disappointment.
10/05/07
The real heartbreak in this Farrelly Brothers remake of 1972's Neil Simon comedy trifle is that the second half is so much worse than the first.
10/05/07
The Heartbreak Kid represents less a return to form than a worn regurgitation of past success.
10/05/07
Gratingly unfunny, mean-spirited Farrelly brothers flick.
10/05/07
Overall the film is limp and, for long stretches, quite tedious.
10/05/07
Though not as engaging as Knocked Up, there is enough humor to keeps us entertained.
10/05/07
There's just not enough of what we've come to expect from the Farrellys: gut-busting laughs, jaw-dropping gross-outs and heart-tugging sincerity.
10/05/07
Lowers the bar set by Along Came Polly
10/05/07
Strip away the appalling gross-out gags and you'd be left with a movie worth seeing.
10/05/07
It's still pretty funny to see Ben Stiller take one -- or eight -- for the team.
10/05/07
[It] won't get any prizes for its nuanced examination of the human heart. But it is straightforward and honest about the absurd, if sometimes defensible, price of placing desire above reason. It is also, yes, extremely funny at times.
10/05/07
It's funny in spots if you can tune out the Farrellys' ultra-crass jokes -- along with any memory of the first movie.
10/05/07
In this remake of the 1972 film, the Farrellys -- proud perpetrators of Dumb and Dumber, There's Something About Mary and other jolly assaults on good taste -- turn Neil Simon's script inside out and flog it like a piñata.
10/05/07
The Heartbreak Kid, while not without its share of tiny, ephemeral pleasures, is a surprisingly flat and unamusing comedy.
10/05/07
The lack of creative inspiration is at the root of this Heartbreak Kid's frustrating laziness and junky guffaws.
10/05/07
While the film needs the put-upon Ben Stiller of Flirting With Disaster or There's Something About Mary, it instead gets the recently emerged, more manic version of Stiller, who immediately throws the humor out of balance.
10/05/07
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