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50It's an obvious effort through and through, but that doesn't seem to dampen its ridiculous charm one bit.
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50To its credit, Heartbreakers lives up to expectations. Almost.
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50Cries out for the brisk pacing of a Sturges or a Wilder. As is, it's too lumpish, languid, and lukewarm to hit even the guilty pleasure zone.
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50If you're going to serve up a half-baked idea, you might as well have Sigourney Weaver do the cooking.
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60Despite its nasty facade, this comedy is surprisingly good-natured.
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75Heartbreakers is "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" plus Gene Hackman as W.C. Fields. I guess that's enough to recommend it. It's not a great comedy, but it's a raucous one, hard-working and ribald, and I like its spirit.
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63Heartbreakers itself is something of a con game: an expensive imitation of older, better films from older, often better times.
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50Heartbreakers' implausible level of comedy just grows tedious, as it's neither smartly witty nor full-throttle absurd.
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50Never tickles your nasty bone, perhaps because, in an era when the gossip pages are dotted with news of celebrity prenups, the prospect of marriage as a route to instant fortune seems less scandalous than it does like business as usual.
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50Hewitt's twin assets may be enough for a lot of moviegoers -- which may be the biggest con Heartbreakers pulls off.
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70Although the film is a tad long, Mirkin ("Romy and Michele's High School Reunion") has managed to pull off a classy, gently funny movie in which no one throws up, a rare blessing these days.
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70As Hollywood diversions go, this gleaming MGM release still leaves you wishing the filmmakers took as many risks as their grifters do.
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50When the youngsters are out of the way and old pros Hackman and Weaver work, it's hard to really dislike Heartbreakers. Sometimes, it's even a little bit of harmless fun.
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40Folks who are desperate to ogle Hewitt and Weaver probably can't be warned off this turkey.
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63Heartbreakers is too long by a half-hour, and there are entire sketches (including a horrid nightclub sequence with Weaver trying to sing in Russian) that could be mercifully sacrificed.
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20What is the great Gene Hackman doing in the dingbat con-artist comedy Heartbreakers.
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38Despite its talented and/or attractive cast, Heartbreakers is an ugly movie: The kind that makes you feel slightly soiled afterwards.
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63Crudely entertaining comedy.
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33A limp and annoying picture.
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70It's not a pretty picture, but it is a pretty funny one when Gene Hackman shows up as William B. Tensy, a Palm Beach tobacco tycoon.
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70Mirkin hits just the right note between naughty and raunchy.
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50Lacks the kind of rhythm and snap to make it work -- and allows this fitfully entertaining romp to dribble on way too long.
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25It's a sorry specimen if ever there was one, and could even stand as an argument for how the movies have deteriorated in recent years.
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60Con-artist caper comedies are almost always piffle, but there's a fierce, cruel competition at the heart of Heartbreakers that gives it some bite.
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70Naughty is an outdated word in an era of proud nastiness, but Heartbreakers has a slinky, teasing quality that recalls the dressed-up comedies of the studio era.
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40While in her earlier movies Jennifer Love Hewitt made an impression by spilling out of her tops, in this one she spills out of her clothes at both ends. This could, if one were feeling charitable, be construed as a broadening of her range.
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50The nasty, overlong and undisciplined sourball of a sex farce about a mother-daughter con team will nonetheless satisfy bigenerational libidinous fantasies.
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40Overstays its welcome by at least a half-hour after never getting very high off the ground in the first place.
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30Heartbreakers gives redemption a bad name, but gives conniving misanthropy a worse one.
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30There's nothing wrong with the structure of Heartbreakers, but David Mirkin's direction is woefully clumsy -- and the movie's tone is nasty.
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50A sporadically amusing romp modeled on "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."
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40Trust me, you'll want to leave these people to get on with their tedious scams alone.