Needless to say, this remake's allusions to donkey sex, south-of-the-border piercings and the palliative power of urine are Farrelly innovations.
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10/05/07
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
101 - 120 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Supplies the laughs, but the heart is missing.
10/05/07
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.
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 CriticThe film’s best moment by far comes from Eddie’s under-the-thumb buddy Mac (Rob Corddry), who advises that the key to a healthy marriage is to ‘plaster on a smile and wait patiently for the sweet embrace of death’.
10/05/07
[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 CriticThis hit-and-miss attempt by the Farrelly brothers to up their own ante on crude smacks of comic desperation.
10/05/07
Stiller's Eddie is a thoroughly unsympathetic character; whiny, judgemental and utterly undeserving of the women who somehow fall for him.
10/05/07
For all its fluffed moments and saggy end, how many other films this year feature a donkey with an erection?
10/05/07
Top CriticIt'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)
10/04/07
Presents a hollow shell of the Farrelly Brothers I know.
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 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.
10/04/07
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.
10/04/07
...an interminable and shockingly unfunny piece of work that has little to offer even the most ardent fan of the Farrelly brothers.
10/04/07
The audience gets some very funny shocking bits, but they are few and far between.
10/04/07
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.
10/04/07
[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.
10/04/07
It’s taken until October, but comedy fans should quickly fall for the comedy hit of the year.
10/04/07
If I were in movie hell, I'd rather see Good Luck Chuck again than return to this atrocity.
10/04/07
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