It's disappointing to see a comic talent like Ben Stiller slum it in these studio-grade romantic comedies.
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01/15/08
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 rotten rating; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticIt'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.
12/01/07
Top CriticBeyond its contagious, wacky humour, the film has a very sweet heart
11/17/07
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10/18/08
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10/06/07
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10/18/08
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
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...
10/05/07
Top Critic[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.
10/05/07
Top CriticThe 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
[The] 2007 remake delivers a lot of laughs despite the fact we're clearly supposed to root for and feel sorry for the cad ... no matter how squirmy or awful his actions.
05/01/08
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
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.
10/05/07
We deserve better than this and expect better from the Farrellys.
10/10/07
I've always believed certain films should never be re-made, but 'The Heartbreak Kid' wasn't one of them. After seeing this new version, it's on my list.
10/07/07
There are laughs to be had, but you'll be scratching your head once the screenplay flies completely off the rails into a ditch of sitcom cliches and painfully obvious, dragged-out humor.
10/04/07
The Heartbreak Kid ... is a disaster, an unmitigated humorless horror that never once plays as raunchy or as outrageous as it thinks it is.
10/04/07
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
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
[The Farrelly Brothers] have taken what was a minor classic and annihilated everything that was funny about it.
10/04/07
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October 21, 2007:
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