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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
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.
The Farrellys are well-served by an energetic cast who enters into the spirit of the enterprise with unadulterated gusto.
A squirmy miscalculation of tone.
Top CriticThough not part of the recent rash of 1970's horror film remakes, this is still a very scary movie.
This remake is ultimately content to be repugnant.
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.
Enjoyable comedy with several big laughs, though it runs out of steam way before the end and is badly let down by a messy final act.
Less raucous than Dumb and Dumber and has a performance from Ben Stiller that proves he can act better than most people give him credit for.
A misogynist tract masquerading as a cheeky sex romp.
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.
Stiller's timing rescues the first half, but his character is so dislikeable that the movie has nothing left going for it when the punchlines dry up, except for some smirking cynicism about relationships.
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.
The Farrelly brothers are back with their most satisfying comedy in a long while.
Top CriticThe whirring sound you hear is that of Neil Simon, screenwriter of the 1972 film on which this is louchely based, spinning in his retirement.
The disappointing upshot is that there is more calculated crudity than joie de vivre.
Top CriticLumpy and sour. A few good laughs, but mostly this is just uninspired, and deeply cynical to boot.
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