Movie Review for Heartbreak Kid, The

Summary: Single and indecisive, Eddie begins dating the incredibly sexy and seemingly fabulous Lila. Upon the urging of his father and best friend, Eddie proposes to her after only a week, fearing this may be his last chance at love, marriage, and happiness. However, while on their honeymoon in sunny Mexico, Lila reveals her true beyond-awful nature and Eddie meets Miranda, the woman he realizes to be his actual soul mate. Eddie must keep his new, increasingly horrid wife at bay as he attempts to woo the girl of his dreams.

                         Reviews of Heartbreak Kid, The
By Kevin Carr of 7M Pictures (7/0)
            be better off renting There's Something About Mary and watching it at home.

By Mike McGranaghan of Aisle Seat (7/0)
            Despite some sizeable flaws, I still recommend the movie for what it is: a laugh machine.

By Brian Webster of Apollo Guide (7/0)
            There are enough really funny scenes to more than make up for the obnoxiousness and humourless st...

By Phil Villarreal of Arizona Daily Star (7/0)
            A knockout with wall-to-wall laughs that recalls the actor and directors in their mid-to-late 199...

By David Germain of Associated Press (7/0)
            Peter and Bobby Farrelly's take on the 1972 Neil Simon-Elaine May original is not nearly as funny...

By Marc Savlov of Austin Chronicle (7/0)
            This is a Farrelly film for adults, if not the entire family, and it's a charmer, honest both to ...

                         Reviews of Heartbreak Kid, The
By Michael Sragow of Baltimore Sun (7/0)
            By now the Farrellys and Stiller should know that what makes comedy honorable and electric isn't ...

By Christopher Smith of Bangor Daily News (Maine) (7/0)
            Will the Farrellys mine enough gross-out scenes to generate a box-office buzz? The idea that they...

By Anna Smith of BBC (7/0)
            The sunny setting, attractive leads and reasonably involving story help make The Heartbreak Kid a...

By Wesley Morris of Boston Globe (7/0)
            ...content to be repugnant.

By Fred Topel of Can Magazine (7/0)
            Lowers the bar set by Along Came Polly

By Daniel Etherington of Channel 4 Film (7/0)
            Lumpy and sour. A few good laughs, but mostly this is just uninspired, and deeply cynical to boot...

                         Reviews of Heartbreak Kid, The
By Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times (7/0)
            A squirmy miscalculation of tone.

By Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times (7/0)
            ...the film is a squirmy miscalculation of tone.

By Michael Phillips of Chicago Tribune (7/0)
            Monaghan¿s comic timing saves this go-nowhere affair from 100 percent lousiness...

By Peter Rainer of Christian Science Monitor (7/0)
            The Farrellys' un-PC blend of sex, obscenity, and slapstick comes across as cruel this time becau...

By Joshua Tyler of CinemaBlend.com (7/0)
            No matter how many times we’ve seen it, there’s nobody I’d rather watch fall apart than Ben Still...

By James Rocchi of Cinematical (7/0)
            The Heartbreak Kid is a shabby, sleazy train wreck ... and anyone who backed it ... before its be...

                         Reviews of Heartbreak Kid, The
By Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
            Both the Farrellys and Stiller seem to have run their course; the film is flabby and the jokes ar...

By Edward Douglas of ComingSoon.net (7/0)
            While this '70s comedy remake isn't a complete return to form for Peter and Bobby Farrelly, it's ...

By Matt Brunson of Creative Loafing (7/0)
            The Farrelly Brothers have a reputation for pushing the envelope ... but in the case of The Heart...

By Tim Robey of Daily Telegraph (7/0)
            Stiller's timing rescues the first half, but his character is so dislikeable that the movie has n...

By N.V. Cooper of E! Online (7/0)
            ...proves that Bobby and Peter's creative brand of comedy is in sharp decline.

By Brian Orndorf of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            It's the Farrellys picking up where they left off with 2000's Me, Myself & Irene, dishing out a l...

                         Reviews of Heartbreak Kid, The
By Erik Childress of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            Let's hope that with the seemingly endless array of projects Apatow's people have lined up that t...

By Peter Sobczynski of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            An ugly, hateful and deeply unfunny bit of hackwork that not only stinks on its own but also tarn...

By Emanuel Levy of EmanuelLevy.Com (7/0)
            Whether there was need to remake Elaine May's 1972 worthy comedy may be a relevant question. Tha...

By Vince Koehler of Entertainment Spectrum (7/0)
            Heartbreak Kid will mend your heart by the end of this film and have you breaking a stitch from c...

By Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
            ...not-as-bad-as-you've-heard...

By Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com (7/0)
            If they could have found a way to re-create the hair-gel scene, you know they would have.

                         Reviews of Heartbreak Kid, The
By Eugene Novikov of Film Blather (7/0)
            Presents a hollow shell of the Farrelly Brothers I know.

By Ethan Alter of Film Journal International (7/0)
            Overall the film is limp and, for long stretches, quite tedious.

By Pete Vonder Haar of Film Threat (7/0)
            The Heartbreak Kid is better than I expected, but since I expected it to be a horrific failure, t...

By Sean O'Connell of filmcritic.com (7/0)
            ...textbook Farrelly brothers.

By Richard Horgan of FilmStew.com (7/0)
            Though not part of the recent rash of 1970's horror film remakes, this is still a very scary movi...

By MaryAnn Johanson of Flick Filosopher (7/0)
            [B]ased on the 1972 movie... much in the same way that a breakfast of Pop Tarts and Mountain Dew ...

                         Reviews of Heartbreak Kid, The
By Rob Vaux of Flipside Movie Emporium (7/0)
            The Heartbreak Kid represents less a return to form than a worn regurgitation of past success.

By Bill Clark of FromTheBalcony (7/0)
            There are laughs to be had, but you'll be scratching your head once the screenplay flies complete...

By Jeffrey Lyles of Gazette (MD) (7/0)
            It’s taken until October, but comedy fans should quickly fall for the comedy hit of the year.

By Peter Bradshaw of Guardian [UK] (7/0)
            The Farrelly brothers are back with their most satisfying comedy in a long while.

By Kirk Honeycutt of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
            Less a remake than a total retooling of the 1972 comedy by the Farrellys into a Ben Stiller vehic...

By Kit Bowen of Hollywood.com (7/0)
            OK, just so long as you don’t expect the old Farrelly magic.

                         Reviews of Heartbreak Kid, The
By Amy Biancolli of Houston Chronicle (7/0)
            The Farrelly brothers blow all the good will accumulated in the first half of the movie by taking...

By Gary Brown of Houston Community Newspapers (7/0)
            If There's Something About Mary is the Farrelly brothers' gold standard for quality, The Heartbre...

By Anthony Quinn of Independent (7/0)
            Whatever else Stiller is, he's not a "kid", and his behaviour as a 40-year-old looks even more lu...

By Jim Slotek of Jam! Movies (7/0)
            The Heartbreak Kid unfolds like a typical rom-com with a bad aftertaste.

By Bob Bloom of Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (7/0)
            The biggest problem with the movie is timidity. The Farrellys ... refuse to take the needed step ...

By Andrea Chase of Killer Movie Reviews (7/0)
            If it lacks the same constant ratio of laughs to screentime as the original, it still delivers a ...

                         Reviews of Heartbreak Kid, The
By Prairie Miller of Long Island Press (7/0)
            An insane role reversal that positions the gorgeous trophy bride as the unrequited ugly duckling ...

By Bob Strauss of Los Angeles Daily News (7/0)
            This one's all about the big, unbelievable guffaws, of which the movie delivers about a dozen. So...

By Carina Chocano of Los Angeles Times (7/0)
            A grim, shrill, deluded and incredibly depressing movie, so bewilderingly mean-spirited that the ...

By Carina Chocano of Los Angeles Times (7/0)
            ...a grim, shrill, deluded and incredibly depressing movie, so bewilderingly mean-spirited that t...

By Mark Dujsik of Mark Reviews Movies (7/0)
            The Farrelly brothers seem to have run out of ideas for their big gags; in the third act, you can...

By Pete Hammond of Maxim (7/0)
            An outrageously hilarious and RAUNCHY comedy that creates so many huge - and we mean humungous - ...

                         Reviews of Heartbreak Kid, The
By Matt Pais of Metromix.com (7/0)
            Kills any romantic vibes like mayonnaise cooking in a sauna.

By Sue Pierman of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (7/0)
            This year's Heartbreak Kid isn't as on-target in either comedy or romance as the Farrellys and St...

By Colin Covert of Minneapolis Star Tribune (7/0)
            Eddie comes off not as a beleaguered Everyman, but a heedless, dishonest knob.

By Ken Hanke of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (7/0)
            116 minutes of tedium punctuated with outbursts of tastelessness.

By Nell Minow of Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (7/0)
            It is good to see both Stiller and the Farellys doing what they do best, happily grossing out aud...

By Mark Ramsey of MovieJuice! (7/0)
            Schizophrenics! Quadriplegics! We've got roles for you!If you're disabled and you have a SAG ca...

                         Reviews of Heartbreak Kid, The
By Kurt Loder of MTV (7/0)
            The Heartbreak Kid is a by-the-numbers romantic comedy whose every familiar plot contortion is ea...

By Kyle Smith of New York Post (7/0)
            ...so laugh-poor that it shoves all its comedy chips on a bet that you can build a movie around n...

By Armond White of New York Press (7/0)
            We deserve better than this and expect better from the Farrellys.

By A. O. Scott of New York Times (7/0)
            If you haven't seen the 1972 version of The Heartbreak Kid, you're missing a minor classic. I...

By Kam Williams of NewsBlaze (7/0)
            An unwatchable mess like this is exactly what you ought to expect from anybody with the unmitigat...

By Gene Seymour of Newsday (6/1)
            For all its lapses in grace and pacing, The Heartbreak Kid somehow manages to wear away resistanc...

                         Reviews of Heartbreak Kid, The
By Frank Swietek of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
            A marriage definitely not made in heaven, and a picture that's a disheartening commentary on the ...

By Scott Tobias of Onion AV Club (7/0)
            While the film needs the put-upon Ben Stiller of Flirting With Disaster or There's Something Abou...

By Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (7/0)
            A bitter disappointment.

By Tyler Hanley of Palo Alto Weekly (7/0)
            Although the edgy humor provides plenty of side-splitting moments, Heartbreak ultimately cracks b...

By Steven Rea of Philadelphia Inquirer (7/0)
            The Farrellys manage to have their cake and scarf it down, disgustingly, too.

By Sean Burns of Philadelphia Weekly (7/0)
            As typical of even the decent Farrelly productions, it's indifferently photographed and runs at l...

                         Reviews of Heartbreak Kid, The
By Bill Gibron of PopMatters (4/3)
            The Heartbreak Kid ... is a disaster, an unmitigated humorless horror that never once plays as ra...

By Linda Cook of Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (7/0)
            Sometimes the Farrelly Brothers are spot-on when they write a comedy. And sometimes they miss the...

By David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews (7/0)
            ...an interminable and shockingly unfunny piece of work that has little to offer even the most ar...

By Gary Goldstein of Reel.com (7/0)
            The lack of creative inspiration is at the root of this Heartbreak Kid's frustrating laziness and...

By Betty Jo Tucker of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (7/0)
            I've always believed certain films should never be re-made, but 'The Heartbreak Kid' wasn't one o...

By James Berardinelli of ReelViews (7/0)
            ...a surprisingly flat and unamusing comedy.

                         Reviews of Heartbreak Kid, The
By Peter Travers of Rolling Stone (7/0)
            ...smacks of comic desperation.

By Jim Lane of Sacramento News & Review (7/0)
            ...the movie unravels when the Farrellys...begin grafting their own bright ideas onto the story.....

By Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com (7/0)
            Gratingly unfunny, mean-spirited Farrelly brothers flick.

By Sean Means of Salt Lake Tribune (7/0)
            The Farrellys want you to root for Eddie to get what he wants, but you may find that he deserves ...

By James Hebert of San Diego Union-Tribune (7/0)
            In this remake of the 1972 film, the Farrellys -- proud perpetrators of Dumb and Dumber, There's ...

By Walter Addiego of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
             Yes, Stiller and the Farrellys pull off a couple of funny scenes, but they can't resist sabotagi...

                         Reviews of Heartbreak Kid, The
By Sean McBride of Sean the Movie Guy (7/0)
            It’s done in bad taste, but unlike their past few films, I must admit that I laughed this time ou...

By William Arnold of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/0)
            There are a few laughs, but Stiller has lost a good deal of his comic impact and edge now that he...

By Tom Keogh of Seattle Times (7/0)
            [It] won't get any prizes for its nuanced examination of the human heart. But it is straightforwa...

By Rich Cline of Shadows on the Wall (7/0)
            Lively and watchable, but never as funny or astute as it should be.

By Ruth Ford of Sky Movies (7/0)
            Stiller's Eddie is a thoroughly unsympathetic character; whiny, judgemental and utterly undeservi...

By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat of Spirituality and Practice (7/0)
            There are a few hilarious scenes but no character we care about, making this remake inferior to E...

                         Reviews of Heartbreak Kid, The
By Neil Smith of thelondonpaper (7/0)
            A misogynist tract masquerading as a cheeky sex romp.

By Dustin Putman of TheMovieBoy.com (7/0)
            The Heartbreak Kid is not the romantic comedy it is selling itself as, but a horror story about a...

By Derek Malcolm of This is London (7/0)
            Less raucous than Dumb and Dumber and has a performance from Ben Stiller that proves he can act b...

By Richard Corliss of TIME Magazine (7/0)
            It'd be nice if the 2007 Heartbreak Kid had some idea of the moral stakes involved, instead of pl...

By David Jenkins of Time Out (4/3)
            The film’s best moment by far comes from Eddie’s under-the-thumb buddy Mac (Rob Corddry), who adv...

By James Christopher of Times [UK] (7/0)
            The disappointing upshot is that there is more calculated crudity than joie de vivre.

                         Reviews of Heartbreak Kid, The
By Brian Tallerico of UGO (7/0)
            With the brilliance of what Stiller has done before to compare it to, the title seems fitting on ...

By Urban Cinefile Critics of Urban Cinefile (7/0)
            Beyond its contagious, wacky humour, the film has a very sweet heart

By Claudia Puig of USA Today (7/0)
            ...merrily quintessential Farrelly.

By Matthew Turner of ViewLondon (7/0)
            Enjoyable comedy with several big laughs, though it runs out of steam way before the end and is b...

By Willie Waffle of WaffleMovies.com (7/0)
            The audience gets some very funny shocking bits, but they are few and far between.

By Desson Thomson of Washington Post (7/0)
            For the Farrelly brothers, topping the slapstick and gross-out comedy of their lowbrow hits such ...

                         Reviews of Heartbreak Kid, The
By Frank Ochieng of World Voice News (7/0)
            The Farrellys' The Heartbreak Kid is a seemingly sketchy and erratic farce that begs for some of ...

By John Beifuss of Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
            Needless to say, this remake's allusions to donkey sex, south-of-the-border piercings and the pal...

By Randy Cordova of Arizona Republic (3/4) No reference
            Consistently full of laugh-out-loud moments. The sight gags are outrageous, the story is genuinel...

By Richard Mowe of Boxoffice Magazine (3/4) No reference
            The Farrellys are well-served by an energetic cast who enters into the spirit of the enterprise w...

By Jonathan Rosenbaum of Chicago Reader (3/4) No reference
            If I were in movie hell, I'd rather see Good Luck Chuck again than return to this atrocity.

By Jeff Vice of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (3/4) No reference
            The Heartbreak Kid, not only reunites [the Farrelly bros.] with Mary star Ben Stiller, it also re...

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By Adam Graham of Detroit News (3/4) No reference
            The Farrellys, who with There's Something About Mary helped lay the groundwork for the mixture of...

By Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central (3/4) No reference
            Finally the gross exploitation picture that detractors have accused the Farrellys of perpetrating...

By Scott Von Doviak of Fort Worth Star-Telegram (3/4) No reference
            Supplies the laughs, but the heart is missing.

By Loey Lockerby of Kansas City Star (3/4) No reference
            This must have been a great idea on paper.

By Josh Bell of Las Vegas Weekly (4/3) No reference
            Neither as daringly vulgar as the Farrellys' most well-known work nor as melancholy and jaded as ...

By Rene Rodriguez of Miami Herald (3/4) No reference
            There's nothing in The Heartbreak Kid that can compare to, say, the hair gel bit from Mary. But t...

                         Reviews of Heartbreak Kid, The
By Stephen Whitty of Newark Star-Ledger (3/4) No reference
            The new version doesn't have any of the ethnic nuance or black-comic nastiness of the earlier one...

By Nick Rogers of State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) (3/4) No reference
            The real heartbreak is how comedienne Malin Akerman's considerable assets are tossed aside. She's...

By Lawrence Toppman of Charlotte Observer (3/4) Not Reachable
            The Farrellys have always danced along the tightrope between funny-disgusting and just plain gros...

By Harvey S. Karten of Compuserve (3/4) Not Reachable
            A mostly unfunny dumbing-down of the 1972 version, leaving out the subtleties of social class and...

By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press (3/4) Not Reachable
            It's still pretty funny to see Ben Stiller take one -- or eight -- for the team.

By Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone of TheMovieChicks.com (6/1) Not Reachable
            I wanted to say something clever and funny in this review, but then I decided the Farrelly brothe...

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