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Heartbreak Kid, The
DreamWorks Pictures


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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

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Variety Lisa Nesselson

Uproarious romp, grounded in believable if gleefully implausible human behavior, is a model of comic timing.

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.

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.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

The Farrellys manage to have their cake and scarf it down, disgustingly, too.

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.

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.

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.

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.

TV Guide Ken Fox

The results feel slack – sometimes funny, but slack.

USA Today Claudia Puig

Though not as engaging as "Knocked Up," there is enough humor to keeps us entertained.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

This remake is distinctly a Farrelly brothers' flick -- sentimental, rambling and raunchy.

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.

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).

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

There are small moments of real humor.

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.

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.

Premiere Glenn Kenny

It's the sourest and most borderline misogynist picture the Farrellys have yet made.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

This remake is ultimately content to be repugnant.

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.

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.

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

This Heartbreak Kid makes the mistake of trying to be semi-heartwarming.

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.

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

Even by Farrelly standards, the film is a washout.

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

Better than I expected, but since I expected it to be a horrific failure, that isn’t saying much.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

Ben Stiller, the movie's star, pretty much sinks the whole enterprise.

The New York Times A.O. Scott

Lame, long, ugly joke of a movie.

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

Monaghan’s comic timing saves this go-nowhere affair from 100 percent lousiness.

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.

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.

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.

The average user rating for this movie is 4.7 (out of 10) based on 53 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jonathon W. gave it a0:
Worst film ever, cant believe they even bothered making it! If you love films dont even bother wasting youre life!

Kevin C. gave it a10:
Absolutely hilarious. If you liked Meet the Parents, this is up your alley. Where is the acclaim for this movie? I can't believe it hasn't gotten more attention.

Sagar gave it a7:
Good sense of humor in the movie.. goes on well till ending which gives a clear picture that neither male nor female are perfect in relationship.

Kristian H. gave it an8:
It's great if you need a mindless laugh.

David R gave it a7:
This movie was far better than these uptight moralist critics are giving credit. The best part is when she drops her pants and starts... well, watch it and find out. Good fun.

Lee P. gave it an8:
I thought that this film was original and in places laugh out loud funny. The Farrelly Brothers back to their vulgar best, with this one probably on a par with their earlier works.

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 !

Heartbreak Kid, The DreamWorks Pictures

Heartbreak Kid, The
DreamWorks Pictures