Compared to past Farrelly movies, I found the jokes raunchy and cruel rather than funny.
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10/14/07
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
21 - 40 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
The performances are almost uniformly engaging, with Stiller cycling through a catalog of sputtering resistance ploys that still work, no matter their familiarity.
10/13/07
There are enough really funny scenes to more than make up for the obnoxiousness and humourless stretches. Not exactly the ringing endorsement you'd hope for.
10/11/07
Finally the gross exploitation picture that detractors have accused the Farrellys of perpetrating throughout their career.
10/11/07
...the movie unravels when the Farrellys...begin grafting their own bright ideas onto the story...
10/11/07
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
Schizophrenics! Quadriplegics! We've got roles for you!If you're disabled and you have a SAG card. That's how you won't feel...so blue!
10/10/07
[A] hit-or-miss, not-as-bad-as-you've-heard remake of the 1972 minor classic.
10/10/07
We deserve better than this and expect better from the Farrellys.
10/10/07
116 minutes of tedium punctuated with outbursts of tastelessness.
10/10/07
It'd be nice if the 2007 Heartbreak Kid had some idea of the moral stakes involved, instead of playing everything for no-brain farce.
10/09/07
Despite some sizeable flaws, I still recommend the movie for what it is: a laugh machine.
10/08/07
It just falls flat, flat, flat.
10/08/07
Top CriticThe Heartbreak Kid is better than I expected, but since I expected it to be a horrific failure, that isn't saying much.
10/08/07
An unwatchable mess like this is exactly what you ought to expect from anybody with the unmitigated gall to overhaul Neil Simon.
10/08/07
It’s done in bad taste, but unlike their past few films, I must admit that I laughed this time out.
10/07/07
Sometimes the Farrelly Brothers are spot-on when they write a comedy. And sometimes they miss the humor target more than they hit it.
10/07/07
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
Will the Farrellys mine enough gross-out scenes to generate a box-office buzz? The idea that they won't is the air of desperation that hangs over the movie and which, too often, suffocates it.
10/07/07
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
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