Heartbreakers: Critic Reviews

Naughty is an outdated word in an era of proud nastiness, but Heartbreakers has a slinky, teasing quality that recalls the dressed-up comedies of the studio era.

Director David Mirkin, whose Romy and Michele's High School Reunion was similarly afflicted, never gets the timing right and allows the story to drag with little internal logic.

At just over two hours, Heartbreakers stretches its premise and easygoing silliness to the maximum.

Laugh out loud? You bet.

Despite its talented and/or attractive cast, Heartbreakers is an ugly movie: The kind that makes you feel slightly soiled afterwards, not to mention conned out the price of admission as efficiently as the victims of the movie's two heroines.

Hits just the right note between naughty and raunchy.

The film unfolds in an impersonal, by-the-book fashion that threatens to become downright laborious.

Not terrible, it just doesn't work very well.

A funny and utterly charming romantic comedy

The only contribution--and it's a dubious one--that Mirkin makes in his trifle of a comedy is to feminize the perennially male profession of con artists with a mother-daughter team, played by the regal Sigourney Weaver and sexy Jennifer Love Hewitt.

We can be sure that the makers of this movie know what their product and her assets are and intend to exploit them to the utmost

Perhaps the biggest surprise is Liotta, who turns in a hilarious turn as Dean, in a blatant send-up of his mobster screen persona.

A light, fun movie in the vein of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Surprisingly, this one is actually very funny and entertaining!

The opening 10 minutes... set a high-water mark that the rest of the movie valiantly and vainly struggles to reach again.

Para muchos pueden ser dos horas desperdiciadas, pero eso si, bastante divertidas.

A surprisingly dull comedy with a smart cast and a predictably uninteresting script.

Heartbreakers breaks our hearts by taking a promising premise and slowly dissolving it into formula cliches.

...regular y bastante "dominguera", pero se gana el merito de verle en cine, sin preferir esperar a que salga en video o DVD...

For a film which promised so little, Heartbreakers is surprisingly digestible.

like its central characters, it cons the audience members as they are watching it and only later leaves them feeling taken for a ride.

"(Liotta) is so absurdly over-the-top and consistently hilarious ... that he's easily the best thing about the movie."

Why beat around the bush? This is one of the funniest comedies to hit the big screen in a long time.

On the laugh-a-minute meter, the script for Heartbreakers rates relatively high.

Should a sequel come to pass, that film would probably be a lot more interesting and entertaining, given the more promising note on which this film ends.