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The Heartbreak Kid
2007
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The Heartbreak Kid
Positive Reviews
25
Negative reviews
21
Average Rating
2.6
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1.5
After severe sunburn waylays Akerman, Stiller finds temptation in the supple form of Michelle Monaghan, a good humored Southern belle whos much more h ..
Av Club
4.5
If it lacks some of the fiercely anarchic tang of early Farrelly outings (such as the criminally underrated Kingpin), thats not such a bad thing.
Austin Chronicle
3.5
This is, instead, a smart and winning remake of a 1972 Neil Simon penned Elaine May film.
Austin Chronicle
2.5
The premise of The Heartbreak Kid is that a man marries a woman who quickly becomes unbearable to him.The problem is that she just as quickly becomes ..
Rogerebert
3.8
Its the Farrellys picking up where they left off with 2000s Me, Myself & Irene, dishing out a line up of audience goosing bits; spiky material that re ..
E Film Critic
3.5
The possibilities of a different movie might be tantalizing, but The Heartbreak Kid is entertaining enough as is.
Cinema Blend
3.8
Though the sitcom humor of this is much broader and funnier than in Mays film, it is also the part most faithful in spirit to the original.
Ny Daily News
2.5
If you watch this film, dont expect much and you may not be too disappointed.
JoBlo
3.8
But like the best Farrelly fare namely, Theres Something About Mary the underlying sentiment is almost sappily sweet.
Philly
2.5
Stillers self absorbed wise guy routine grows increasingly pathological as the story winds down, and the film never breaks any ones heart as promised ..
Sover
0.6
Both the Farrellys and Stiller seem to have run their course; the film is flabby and the jokes are tired, and all thats left is easy potshots at the u ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.1
Though not as engaging as Knocked Up, there is enough humor to keeps us entertained.
Usa Today
2.8
Please be shocked into fits of laughter by our impish rudeness! the Farrellys seem to say. Please forget the other, better R rated comedies youve seen ..
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
There are some honest laughs, but the movie unravels when the Farrellys (and co writers Scot Armstrong and Leslie Dixon) begin grafting their own brig ..
News Review
2.5
But the final act is badly dragged out.And by filling the script with borderline homophobic humour rather than comedy that actually springs from the s ..
Shadows On The Wall
3.0
The film is also let down by a messy, badly written final act that seems to go on for hours.The Heartbreak Kid delivers several good laughs but it bun ..
View London
1.8
More so than with a great drama, a great comedy owes its distinction to an unreproducible confluence of tone and performance.
Cs Monitor
2.0
Overall, though, the film is limp and, for long stretches, quite tedious.
Film Journal
3.0
Their comedy is dumb but daring and it has a strong sense of the weirdness of the world.
Smh
1.3
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Star Tribune
3.2
Its marked by mostly intelligent dialogue and off the wall situations that aretolerable in comedies and thus make tge pictuyre enjoyable from start to ..
Emanuellevy
2.0
No, wait theres more a crude outtake fills the screen to make our viewing pleasure complete.In all fairness, The Heartbreak Kid manages to include som ..
Reel Talk Reviews
3.2
This isnt a squirmy farce poised on the edge of pain; its just a situation, a hat rack for gags.The Farrellys havent lost their dirty boy spirits.
Ew
1.0
The rest of The Heartbreak Kid revolves around wacky stunts and horrible over the top outbursts from Stiller, and this proves the Farrelly brothers ha ..
Cinema Crazed
3.0
But the brothers are not cooking on gas; too often this feels like formula.
Empire
2.5
The original, while technically a comedy, is full of dark undertones, and the conclusion is quite chilling.What we get here is simply a Farrelly movie ..
Sf Gate
3.0
The Heartbreak Kid offers up a handful of sharp laughs as Eddie tries to trade in old for new, but not enough to distract from his unsympathetic chara ..
Bbc
2.5
But if The Heartbreak Kid doesnt go totally wrong, its big problem is that doesnt really go anywhere.
Time
3.5
What makes those films, and the latest one, more than mere crudesmanship is the way they stretch the familiar taboos and embarrassing moments of real ..
Washington Post
1.9
By this time, the narrative becomes increasingly strained and ludicrous and the comedy softens to a dull hum.
The Movie Boy
2.5
The jokes are never rip roaringly funny and a late attempt at turning the film into a black comedy fails miserably.
Bullz-Eye
4.5
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 a ..
Flickfilosopher
2.5
Neither as daringly vulgar as the Farrellys most well known work nor as melancholy and jaded as its source material, The Heartbreak Kid ends up in a d ..
Las Vegas Weekly
2.0
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Total Film
2.5
Theres a been there, done that vibe to a lot of The Heartbreak Kids gags and those looking for something fresh will be disappointed.
ReelViews
1.0
A look at the Laugh Factorys Comedy Camp, which for more than 30 years has offered a place for at risk kids and otherwise to try their hand at stand u ..
Calendar Live
2.8
The movie occasionally pays homage to the Simon script (which was based on a story by Bruce Jay Freidman) but its mostly been junked and the concept r ..
Seattle Pi
1.3
Though the film remains entertaining for a little while, primarily through the enthusiasm of the performers, the film eventually becomes the same sort ..
Reel Film
2.0
And theres just too many gross out jokes shoehorned into the purposefully obnoxious story.
7M Pictures
1.9
Never before have I wanted to see the sanitized airplane cut of a movie rather than the filthy directors cut.But I make the exception with The Heartbr ..
The Star
1.9
But instead, Monaghan demonstrates some charm and its Stillers despicable Eddie who earns most of our ire.
Deseret News
4.0
And beyond its contagious, wacky humour, the film has a very sweet heart.
Urban Cine File
1.9
The Heartbreak Kid is so laugh poor that it shoves all its comedy chips on a bet that you can build a movie around nose gags.
New York Post
0.6
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News Blaze
3.1
Even with Mr. Stillers innate everyman appeal, its hard to make Eddies plight sympathetic.
Big Picture Big Sound
1.9
The Heartbreak Kid is an average comedy with moments of hilarity, but more moments of blah.
Waffle Movies
3.5
Judd Apatows movies are proof how laughs can be attained when funny comedians are allowed to let loose.
ComingSoon
3.0
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Entertainment Times Online ..
3.1
Photo: Zade Rosenthal, Dreamworks The Heartbreak Kid 1 / 1 Back to Gallery Three questions: If 50 percent of a comedy makes you laugh, and the other 5 ..
Chron
2.0
The Farrelly Brothers fairly entertaining The Heartbreak Kid is a remake of the very amusing 1972 Elaine May comedy that Neil Simon adapted from a sho ..
Film Guardian
3.0
The Farrelly brothers are back with their most satisfying comedy in a long while.
Film Guardian
1.9
have taken what was a minor classic and annihilated everything that was funny about it.
Mercury News
2.5
Thats not to say that The Heartbreak Kid lacks appreciable humor.The Farrellys can still deliver a sucker punch like nobodys business and their instin ..
Flip Side Archive
2.5
Monaghan is believable as the heart sweeping Southerner and has good chemistry with Stiller.
From The Balcony
2.0
Compared to past Farrelly movies, I found the jokes raunchy and cruel rather than funny.
Review Express
4.4
This movie is raunchy, very raunchy, but manages to at the same time to be entertaining.
Entertainment Spectrum
4.4
Films like Wedding Crashers, The 40 Year Old Virgin and this years Knocked Up have gone the extra mile to keep the laughs going while walking the tigh ..
Crazed Fan Boy
2.5
Its almost enough to make one forget how promising The Heartbreak Kid started but ultimately only serves as disappointment for the promise wasted on t ..
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