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Heartbreak Kid, The
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Heartbreak Kid, The reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 46 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
4.0 out of 10
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MPAA RATING: R for strong sexual content, crude humor and language

Starring Ben Stiller, Malin Akerman, Rob Corddry, Michelle Monaghan, Carlos Mencia, and Jerry Stiller

Eddie meets Lila and the pair quickly embark on a whirlwind romance, which leads to a hasty proposal. On the way to Mexico for their honeymoon, Lila transforms from a gentle and sweet life partner into a crass, tequila-swigging wench with a sordid past, leaving Eddie wondering what he's gotten himself into. Later on, when Eddie strikes up a casual conversation with Miranda, he finds himself drawn to her allure which is as wholesome and grounded as Lila is flighty. Soon, the miserable newlywed is manufacturing excuses to leave his bride behind and spend time with Miranda. (DreamWorks)


GENRE(S): Comedy  |  Drama  |  Romance  
WRITTEN BY: Bruce Jay Friedman (short story "A Change of Plan")
Neil Simon (1972 screenplay)
Scot Armstrong, Leslie Dixon, Kevin Barnett
Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
 
DIRECTED BY: Bobby Farrelly
Peter Farrelly
 
RELEASE DATE: DVD: December 26, 2007 
Theatrical: October 5, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 115 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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80
Variety Lisa Nesselson
Uproarious romp, grounded in believable if gleefully implausible human behavior, is a model of comic timing.
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80
Washington Post Desson Thomson
You can expect to fall about, snort and hoot, at times hard enough to hurt inner body parts that only doctors can identify.
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78
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
This is a Farrelly film for adults, if not the entire family, and its 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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75
Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
The Farrellys manage to have their cake and scarf it down, disgustingly, too.
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75
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Though the sitcom humor of this is much broader and funnier than in May's film, it is also the part most faithful in spirit to the original.
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70
The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Farrelly brothers films are looking better and better, but aren't nearly as funny as their grungy early films that hit with the stealth and vigor of guerrilla commandos. Maybe there is a kind of heartbreak here after all.
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67
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Grodin always seems like a real guy, whereas Stiller, even working it, is just the designated loser-clown of the megaplex era. He's too harmless to break any hearts.
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63
Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
The movie earns its R-rating with some graphic (and hilarious) sex scenes and a torrent of four-letter words, but this is a much more sophisticated enterprise than a mere gross-out comedy.
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63
TV Guide Ken Fox
The results feel slack – sometimes funny, but slack.
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63
USA Today Claudia Puig
Though not as engaging as "Knocked Up," there is enough humor to keeps us entertained.
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63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
This remake is distinctly a Farrelly brothers' flick -- sentimental, rambling and raunchy.
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60
LA Weekly Michelle Orange
The Heartbreak Kid is funniest when it leaves the body-humor behind for something truly subversive: a sequence of Eddie’s repeated attempts to cross the Mexico/U.S. border with a bunch of illegals and get back home is wicked, ticklish and inspired--all of the things the Farrellys should get home to themselves.
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58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
It also has been retooled to be a Farrelly brothers comedy, which means most of Simon's wit has been replaced with gags involving S&M cruelty, explicit bestiality, flatulence, nose mucous, people urinating on each other, and foul-mouthed old men (Stiller's father, Jerry).
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50
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
There are small moments of real humor.
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50
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
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.
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50
The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Embellishments to Neil Simon's original script were inevitable, but when you're adding an "Uncle Tito," you're definitely on the wrong track.
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50
Premiere Glenn Kenny
It's the sourest and most borderline misogynist picture the Farrellys have yet made.
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50
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
This remake is ultimately content to be repugnant.
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50
San Francisco Chronicle Walter Addiego
It's funny in spots if you can tune out the Farrellys' ultra-crass jokes - along with any memory of the first movie.
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50
ReelViews James Berardinelli
The occasional laughs provided aren't frequent enough or uproarious enough to warrant an investment of nearly two hours of a viewer's time.
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42
Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
This Heartbreak Kid makes the mistake of trying to be semi-heartwarming.
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38
New York Post Kyle Smith
So laugh-poor that it shoves all its comedy chips on a bet that you can build a movie around nose gags.
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33
Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Even by Farrelly standards, the film is a washout.
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30
Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
Better than I expected, but since I expected it to be a horrific failure, that isn’t saying much.
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30
Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Ben Stiller, the movie's star, pretty much sinks the whole enterprise.
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30
The New York Times A.O. Scott
Lame, long, ugly joke of a movie.
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25
Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
Monaghan’s comic timing saves this go-nowhere affair from 100 percent lousiness.
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20
Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
A grim, shrill, deluded and incredibly depressing movie, so bewilderingly mean-spirited that the trademark Farrelly Brothers gross-out scenes feel like the sweetest.
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0
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
The ethnic humor that gave May's movie its charge is replaced by crass mean-spiritedness. If I were in movie hell, I'd rather see "Good Luck Chuck" again than return to this atrocity.
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0
Portland Oregonian Colin Covert
The results are not endearing. Eddie comes off not as a beleaguered Everyman but a heedless, dishonest knob trying to undo a deal that gave him exactly what he deserved. The real surprise is Carlos Mencia, playing an exuberant clerk at the resort hotel. But when Carlos Mencia is the funniest thing in your movie, you've got serious problems.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 4.0 (out of 10) based on 42 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Gessel B. gave it an8:
A very funny movie, but without a message in the end. Ben Stiller made the same mistakes that he vowed would not happen again. A lot of hilarious one liners, with some scenes that could have been shortened or alluded to in order to get the point across. Ben Stiller is definitely the best at playing the role of the victim who just let's life roll over him instead of the other way around. Not as funny as Meet The Fockers, but certainly a must buy !

Adretto P. gave it a4:
Sad waste of my Friday night.

JT K gave it a5:
It really wasn't Ben Stiller's best, or anywhere NEAR his best, only a few chuckles, and countless close-your-eyes moments.

S M gave it a9:
SUPER FUNNY. The whole theater was full of bursts when I watched this movie (screening before the wide release). It was also very cool for taking a date.

Malin A. gave it a6:
This movie gets a 6 for Malin Akerman alone.

Dean gave it a3:
This was a major disappointment for a Ben Stiller film. It went way overboard and in the end I was no longer connected to the main character (Stiller). There were definitely parts where I laughed loudly, but there were also parts where I whinced. Overall, it wasn't the acting that made the movie bad, it was the movie. I am a great lover of comedy, including the stupid stuff, but this was sometimes comedy and at other times it was painful.

Raymond D. M gave it a9:
super solid like a female nigger's purple pussy squeeze!

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