The Heartbreak Kid
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 5, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
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Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
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11
Mixed:
10
Negative:
9
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80
VarietyLisa Nesselson
Uproarious romp, grounded in believable if gleefully implausible human behavior, is a model of comic timing. Read full review
80
Washington PostDesson Thomson
You can expect to fall about, snort and hoot, at times hard enough to hurt inner body parts that only doctors can identify. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarc 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. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
The Farrellys manage to have their cake and scarf it down, disgustingly, too. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJack 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. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterKirk 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. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen 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. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Though not as engaging as "Knocked Up," there is enough humor to keeps us entertained. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
This remake is distinctly a Farrelly brothers' flick -- sentimental, rambling and raunchy. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldRene 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. Read full review
63
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
The results feel slack – sometimes funny, but slack. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyMichelle 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. Read full review
58
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam 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). Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubScott 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. Read full review
50
Charlotte ObserverLawrence 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. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
There are small moments of real humor. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
This remake is ultimately content to be repugnant. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames 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. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleWalter Addiego
It's funny in spots if you can tune out the Farrellys' ultra-crass jokes - along with any memory of the first movie. Read full review
50
PremiereGlenn Kenny
It's the sourest and most borderline misogynist picture the Farrellys have yet made. Read full review
42
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
This Heartbreak Kid makes the mistake of trying to be semi-heartwarming. Read full review
38
New York PostKyle Smith
So laugh-poor that it shoves all its comedy chips on a bet that you can build a movie around nose gags. Read full review
33
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Even by Farrelly standards, the film is a washout. Read full review
30
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
Lame, long, ugly joke of a movie. Read full review
30
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Ben Stiller, the movie's star, pretty much sinks the whole enterprise. Read full review
30
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
Better than I expected, but since I expected it to be a horrific failure, that isn’t saying much. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Monaghan’s comic timing saves this go-nowhere affair from 100 percent lousiness. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesCarina 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. Read full review
0
Chicago ReaderJonathan 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. Read full review
0
Portland OregonianColin 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. Read full review
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