The Heartbreak Kid
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 5, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
10
Negative:
9
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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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