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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
By now the Farrellys and Stiller should know that what makes comedy honorable and electric isn't morality or affability, but the artful expression of home truths. This Heartbreak Kid makes the mistake of trying to be semi-heartwarming.
be better off renting There's Something About Mary and watching it at home.
Heartbreak Kid will mend your heart by the end of this film and have you breaking a stitch from continuous laughter.
Although the edgy humor provides plenty of side-splitting moments, Heartbreak ultimately cracks beneath a lackluster storyline.
Whether there was need to remake Elaine May's 1972 worthy comedy may be a relevant question. That said, most of the narrative changes and updates are good, and the movie is funnier than the Farrelleys former pictures, Shallow Hal and Stuck on You.
The real heartbreak is how comedienne Malin Akerman's considerable assets are tossed aside. She's good enough to be on the rebound soon. The rest of the film is a desperate, forgettable overlong movie that makes "Along Came Polly" look like a masterpiece.
Needless to say, this remake's allusions to donkey sex, south-of-the-border piercings and the palliative power of urine are Farrelly innovations.
Supplies the laughs, but the heart is missing.
I wanted to say something clever and funny in this review, but then I decided the Farrelly brothers didn't bother to do that here, so why should I.
[The Farrelly Brothers'] squeamish, childish fascination with bodily ickiness, when crossed with the iffy sexual politics of the original, yields a comic vision remarkable for its hysterical misogyny.
Top CriticThis hit-and-miss attempt by the Farrelly brothers to up their own ante on crude smacks of comic desperation.
It's the Farrellys picking up where they left off with 2000's Me, Myself & Irene, dishing out a line-up of audience-goosing bits; spiky material that returns a little of the water-cooler visibility they used to enjoy (two words: donkey show)
Presents a hollow shell of the Farrelly Brothers I know.
The Heartbreak Kid ... is a disaster, an unmitigated humorless horror that never once plays as raunchy or as outrageous as it thinks it is.
The Farrelly brothers seem to have run out of ideas for their big gags; in the third act, you can sense them straining to bring out the big guns while only packing a pellet gun.
An ugly, hateful and deeply unfunny bit of hackwork that not only stinks on its own but also tarnishes the reputation of a genuinely funny and inspired comedy.
...an interminable and shockingly unfunny piece of work that has little to offer even the most ardent fan of the Farrelly brothers.
The audience gets some very funny shocking bits, but they are few and far between.
Let's hope that with the seemingly endless array of projects Apatow's people have lined up that they never resort to repeating themselves with something as frequently unfunny as The Heartbreak Kid.
[B]ased on the 1972 movie... much in the same way that a breakfast of Pop Tarts and Mountain Dew is based on a petit dejeuner of fresh-baked croissants and cafe au lait.
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October 21, 2007:
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