The Heartbreak Kid: Critic Reviews

[A] hit-or-miss, not-as-bad-as-you've-heard remake of the 1972 minor classic.

[The Farrelly Brothers'] squeamish, childish fascination with bodily ickiness, when crossed with the iffy sexual politics of the original, yields a comic vision remarkable for its hysterical misogyny.

The Farrelly brothers are back with their most satisfying comedy in a long while.

Though not as engaging as Knocked Up, there is enough humor to keeps us entertained.

For the Farrelly brothers, topping the slapstick and gross-out comedy of their lowbrow hits such as Dumb & Dumber and There's Something About Mary was never going to be easy. But in The Heartbreak Kid, they have outdone themselves.

This remake is ultimately content to be repugnant.

In some ways, the Farrelly brothers' remake of The Heartbreak Kid is better than Elaine May's 1972 comedy. In other ways, not so much.

The Farrelly brothers blow all the good will accumulated in the first half of the movie by taking the humor deeper and deeper into Tedious Cad Land, where Stiller's self-obsessed, nattering guyishness turns pathological and strange.

A squirmy miscalculation of tone.

Monaghan's comic timing saves this go-nowhere affair from 100 percent lousiness, and I couldn't really tell you why; she doesn't earn any laughs, exactly; there are none, but she's charming and she makes tiny bits of a stuporous flop slightly less grim.

If I were in movie hell, I'd rather see Good Luck Chuck again than return to this atrocity.

The Farrellys manage to have their cake and scarf it down, disgustingly, too.

Eddie comes off not as a beleaguered Everyman, but a heedless, dishonest knob.

The Farrellys, who with There's Something About Mary helped lay the groundwork for the mixture of raunchiness and heart that Judd Apatow has perfected, seem painfully dated here.

Consistently full of laugh-out-loud moments. The sight gags are outrageous, the story is genuinely involving and the whole movie has a bit of sweetness to it.

Uproarious romp, grounded in believable if gleefully implausible human behavior, is a model of comic timing.

The Farrelly Brothers have jumped the orifice.

Like much of the Farrellys' work, there's no soul to what might very well be a Something About Mary sequel.

Strip away the appalling gross-out gags and you'd be left with a movie worth seeing.

There are some good laughs to be found here, but you'll need patience to extract them from the filler.

Gratingly unfunny, mean-spirited Farrelly brothers flick.

The Heartbreak Kid, while not without its share of tiny, ephemeral pleasures, is a surprisingly flat and unamusing comedy.

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.

Peter and Bobby Farrelly's take on the 1972 Neil Simon-Elaine May original is not nearly as funny as you'd like for a movie that reunites them with There's Something About Mary star Ben Stiller in another gross-out romance.

If The Heartbreak Kid doesn't go totally wrong, its big problem is that doesn't really go anywhere. It just sort of lies there, like dumb Lila on the beach, waiting to turn gold.