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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 Heartbreak Kid is a shabby, sleazy train wreck ... and anyone who backed it ... before its being made or rewards it with money or acclaim upon its release should feel, if they can feel at all, something like shame.
the brothers' most deliberate effort to recapture that Mary magic.
This year's Heartbreak Kid isn't as on-target in either comedy or romance as the Farrellys and Stiller were with There's Something About Mary, but you'll find yourself laughing just the same.
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.
A grim, shrill, deluded and incredibly depressing movie, so bewilderingly mean-spirited that the trademark Farrelly Brothers gross-out scenes feel like the sweetest.
Top CriticThe Heartbreak Kid, not only reunites [the Farrelly bros.] with Mary star Ben Stiller, it also restores -- and arguably ups -- the raunchiness. So much so, in fact, that it becomes exceedingly uncomfortable and grotesque.
Eddie comes off not as a beleaguered Everyman, but a heedless, dishonest knob.
The Farrellys' un-PC blend of sex, obscenity, and slapstick comes across as cruel this time because the brothers reduce a very human situation to a series of gross gags.
The Farrellys manage to have their cake and scarf it down, disgustingly, too.
It is good to see both Stiller and the Farellys doing what they do best, happily grossing out audiences in the name of comedy.
Consistently full of laugh-out-loud moments. The sight gags are outrageous, the story is genuinely involving and the whole movie has a bit of sweetness to it.
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.
[The Farrelly Brothers] have taken what was a minor classic and annihilated everything that was funny about it.
Peter and Bobby Farrelly's take on the 1972 Neil Simon-Elaine May original is not nearly as funny as you'd like for a movie that reunites them with There's Something About Mary star Ben Stiller in another gross-out romance.
For the Farrelly brothers, topping the slapstick and gross-out comedy of their lowbrow hits such as Dumb & Dumber and There's Something About Mary was never going to be easy. But in The Heartbreak Kid, they have outdone themselves.
Top CriticNeither 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.
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.
The Heartbreak Kid is not the romantic comedy it is selling itself as, but a horror story about a selfish guy getting exactly what he wants and not earning any of it. There is no fun in that, only misery.
Monaghan’s comic timing saves this go-nowhere affair from 100 percent lousiness, and I couldn’t really tell you why; she doesn’t earn any laughs, exactly; there are none, but she’s charming and she makes tiny bits of a stuporous flop slightly less grim.
This is a Farrelly film for adults, if not the entire family, and it's a charmer, honest both to the nature of the loves we choose in haste and the fear that makes us so hasty so often.
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