The new version doesn't have any of the ethnic nuance or black-comic nastiness of the earlier one, and the Farrellys miss the opportunity to add their own.
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10/05/07
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
The Farrelly Brothers have jumped the orifice.
10/05/07
In some ways, the Farrelly brothers' remake of The Heartbreak Kid is better than Elaine May's 1972 comedy. In other ways, not so much.
10/05/07
There's nothing in The Heartbreak Kid that can compare to, say, the hair gel bit from Mary. But there's something to be said for a comedy that derives its laughs the old-fashioned way.
10/05/07
The Heartbreak Kid is a by-the-numbers romantic comedy whose every familiar plot contortion is easily predicted well before it occurs.
10/05/07
This one's all about the big, unbelievable guffaws, of which the movie delivers about a dozen. Some may still call it heresy, but it's nothing to get heartbroken over.
10/05/07
This must have been a great idea on paper.
10/05/07
The Farrellys want you to root for Eddie to get what he wants, but you may find that he deserves every bad thing that happens to him.
10/05/07
The Heartbreak Kid unfolds like a typical rom-com with a bad aftertaste.
10/05/07
The Farrelly brothers blow all the good will accumulated in the first half of the movie by taking the humor deeper and deeper into Tedious Cad Land, where Stiller's self-obsessed, nattering guyishness turns pathological and strange.
10/05/07
There are some good laughs to be found here, but you'll need patience to extract them from the filler.
10/05/07
It's heartbreaking enough to witness a shallow remake of a treasured classic, but it's equally depressing to watch comedy masters Ben Stiller and the Farrelly brothers go so completely off their game.
10/05/07
The Farrellys, who with There's Something About Mary helped lay the groundwork for the mixture of raunchiness and heart that Judd Apatow has perfected, seem painfully dated here.
10/05/07
Peter and Bobby Farrelly make a half-hearted attempt to reclaim the arena of raunch with their remake of the 1972 comedy The Heartbreak Kid.
10/05/07
An outrageously hilarious and RAUNCHY comedy that creates so many huge - and we mean humungous - laughs you will probably have to see it more than once just to catch all the dialogue.
10/05/07
The Farrellys have always danced along the tightrope between funny-disgusting and just plain gross in There's Something About Mary and Shallow Hal. If the ratio was about 50-50 at the best of times, it's now 30-70 in favor of crassness.
10/05/07
The Farrellys are well-served by an energetic cast who enters into the spirit of the enterprise with unadulterated gusto.
10/05/07
A squirmy miscalculation of tone.
10/05/07
Top CriticThough not part of the recent rash of 1970's horror film remakes, this is still a very scary movie.
10/05/07
This remake is ultimately content to be repugnant.
10/05/07
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