It's like watching the younger brother of There's Something About Mary: it's brash and talks too loud, it's a bit snotty and it so wants to be as cool as its older sibling.
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12/01/07
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.
Runtime: 3 hrs 24 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $36,771,343
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
1 - 20 (sorted by critic A-Z; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticIt's disappointing to see a comic talent like Ben Stiller slum it in these studio-grade romantic comedies.
01/15/08
Top CriticBeyond its contagious, wacky humour, the film has a very sweet heart
11/17/07
Top CriticIt'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
Overall the film is limp and, for long stretches, quite tedious.
10/05/07
Both the Farrellys and Stiller seem to have run their course; the film is flabby and the jokes are tired, and all that's left is easy potshots at the usual targets.
10/04/07
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.
10/05/07
There are a few laughs, but Stiller has lost a good deal of his comic impact and edge now that he's in his 40s, the Farrellys seem weary of the gross-out humor that made them rich and the movie comes off as labored.
10/04/07
Needless to say, this remake's allusions to donkey sex, south-of-the-border piercings and the palliative power of urine are Farrelly innovations.
10/05/07
Neither as daringly vulgar as the Farrellys' most well-known work nor as melancholy and jaded as its source material, Heartbreak ends up in a dissatisfying middle ground.
10/04/07
The Heartbreak Kid, while not without its share of tiny, ephemeral pleasures, is a surprisingly flat and unamusing comedy.
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
Compared to past Farrelly movies, I found the jokes raunchy and cruel rather than funny.
10/14/07
The biggest problem with the movie is timidity. The Farrellys ... refuse to take the needed step of making star Ben Stiller totally unsympathetic.
10/06/07
OK, just so long as you don’t expect the old Farrelly magic.
10/06/07
The Farrelly brothers are back with their most satisfying comedy in a long while.
10/05/07
Top CriticIf There's Something About Mary is the Farrelly brothers' gold standard for quality, The Heartbreak Kid comes in as pyrite--or fool's gold.
10/06/07
The Farrelly Brothers have a reputation for pushing the envelope ... but in the case of The Heartbreak Kid, they seem only marginally more daring than Robert Wise helming The Sound of Music.
10/10/07
There are a few hilarious scenes but no character we care about, making this remake inferior to Elaine May's 1972 film.
10/07/07
As typical of even the decent Farrelly productions, it's indifferently photographed and runs at least half an hour too long.
10/02/07
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