2007 Directed by Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Eddie, the 40-year-old confirmed bachelor finally says "I do" to the beautiful and sexy Lila. But during their honeymoon in Mexico, the woman of his dreams turns out to be a total nightmare, and the guy who could never pull the trigger realizes he’s jumped the gun.
Ben Stiller Malin Åkerman Michelle Monaghan Jerry Stiller Rob Corddry Mae LaBorde Carlos Mencia Scott Wilson Polly Holliday Danny McBride Roy Jenkins Stephanie Courtney Natalie Carter Nicol Paone Miranda May Kathy Lamkin Dean Norris Leslie Easterbrook Eva Longoria Jackie Flynn Gary Riotto Mitch Rouse Kayla Kleevage
Les Femmes de ses rêves, Nach sieben Tagen - Ausgeflittert, O Mal Casado, Antes Só do Que Mal Casado, La Mujer de mis Pesadillas, Matrimonio compulsivo, The Heartbreak Kid - Nach 7 Tagen Ausgeflittert
Seriously underrated. The original offered a much-needed corrective to Benjamin Braddock. Since then, that entitled, half-checked man-child has given rise to fully spoiled, completely unchecked man-children, and the Farrelly's version exaggerates to skewer Braddock's progeny. The directors and Stiller did this before with There's Something About Mary, but this goes even darker, removing Mary's semi-cop-out ending in favor of suggesting a never-ending cycle of misogyny and self-justification spewed by the sort of scrawny fool who loves to call himself a Nice Guy whenever he gets rejected. Brutal, brutal stuff.
It's a shame, since the first 45 minutes of "The Heartbreak Kid" have tons of laugh-out-loud moments. However, the second half turns relentlessly stupid, making the characters completely unlikable, losing all of the film's momentum.
In the end, the real heartbreak was the fact I chose to spend my night watching this 🙁
Steadfastly underappreciated, Peter and Bobby Farrelly's "The Heartbreak Kid" is a surprisingly appealing comedy of romantic errors. Starring Ben Stiller as an everyman whose life is upended by an ill-thought-out marriage, the film weaves light raunch and satisfying romance for a spirited and enjoyable piece of work.
Revolving around Stiller's sporting goods mini-magnate, "The Heartbreak Kid" follows as its protagonist becomes entangled with and, subsequently, married to a woman who quickly impacts his life. Just as quickly, she becomes intolerable and leaves Stiller's lead to contemplate different and more apt romantic pairings.
The story layers enough character, laughs, and energy to be inviting; and the brothers Farrelly balance the over-the-top with the genuinely warm. The film is neatly assembled and,…
What a rotten, hateful movie this is. Misogynistic, homophobic, racist, it checks every box. What were the Farrelly Brothers trying time do here? Even when their movies don’t work, they’re still generally kind. This movie is malicious. The original Heartbreak Kid was a little dark, but man, this movie is just plain mean. I hated this.
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I was at a conference yesterday and at one point we were discussing American/Hollywood remakes of international films (specifically Scandinavian films), and how the trend is generally for the remake to focus more on the exceptional individual (rather than the success of the collective) and include hypermasculine characters, and often there’s some gun violence thrown in for good measure, which seems pretty on the nose
all of this is to say, remakes are on the brain, which is why I watched the beginning of this (and I hate it)! somehow the Farrelly Brothers thought that, to transpose Elaine May’s classic into 2007, they needed a freakish amount of gay jokes and woman-hating, and they should uhhhhh be in prison! Bruce…
there's a very strange and highly subversive sequence of this film (2-3 mins) that blends white knighting into the trauma of Mex/US border crossing and it remarkably still plays
Am I the only one that would indeed choose Michelle Monaghan over Malin Akerman, even if the latter didn't behave like an absolute psycho like she did in this film? I think I'm still under the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang effect.
My girlfriend made me watch this. I laughed out loud a couple times. All I want to do now is have a shower and wash the laughter off me. Feel’n dirty!
Anyways, this probably deserved the Oscar more than Green Book🤷🏻♂️
Ben Stiller is definitely one of those men that has become more handsome and attractive in his old age. My love for him comes from the fact that I laugh out loud very often when he is doing one of his bits. Upon watching this I realized another comedian who has always had this effect on me is Arthur Stiller. When I was a kid, I loved every scene he was in in King of Queens, absolutely hilarious. Arthur Stiller has me laughing out loud (alone) just like his son does. This movie was pretty bad, but I laughed out loud at one specific joke and shook Jass awake to tell her about it. The joke comes from Arthur Stiller and I recommend everyone watch the film for this one part; I am confident that this joke is so genius that once you watch it, you'll know exactly which one I'm referring to.
The Stiller family.... so funny.
Bom.. Mais um filme de comédia inconsistente. Ele começa bem, a interação do personagem do Ben Stiller com o seu pai é divertida. Mas depois da primeira hora as coisas começam a desandar, existem segmentos desnecessários que não tem graça e só incham a trama, o filme possui pelo menos uns 15 minutos a mais do o que deveria.
Geralmente os filmes de comédia necessitam de uma certa suspensão de descrença em certos momentos, mas tudo tem limites ne?
Não é uma experiência ruim não, na medida do possível o filme é engraçado. Só que o roteiro força situações que beiram o ridículo.
5.0/10
The film’s biggest mistake is thay it can’t commit to making Ben Stiller unlikeable. It desperately wants you to root for him in a situation where that’s basically impossible and almost every other problem with this movie (other than the fact that it’s just not very funny) can be traced back to this decision.
Can't believe it's been 14 years since I saw a trailer for this and thought it looked like dog shit. Finally watched it, and yeah, it's that bad.
Trying to make Ben Stiller likable and the Lila character an actual nightmare is a mistake. Also fucking woof at some of these jokes. Lila being a low key racist who fetishizes Black men? The continued Farrelly gag of fatphobia. All the weird homophobic "humor". The weird closeup of Lila's pubes when she pees on Stiller's back? Isn't it funny how a man going along with his wife's simple requests means he's some emasculated shell?!
So yeah, crap movie.
Oddly enjoyed the final scene of the film though. The only thing that taps into coming close to the original.
I was at a conference yesterday and at one point we were discussing American/Hollywood remakes of international films (specifically Scandinavian films), and how the trend is generally for the remake to focus more on the exceptional individual (rather than the success of the collective) and include hypermasculine characters, and often there’s some gun violence thrown in for good measure, which seems pretty on the nose
all of this is to say, remakes are on the brain, which is why I watched the beginning of this (and I hate it)! somehow the Farrelly Brothers thought that, to transpose Elaine May’s classic into 2007, they needed a freakish amount of gay jokes and woman-hating, and they should uhhhhh be in prison! Bruce…
Took a really good movie, with really interesting character dynamics and stripped them down to their most basic and sexist versions.
"You been crushin' any pussy?" Comedy Legend Jerry Stiller to his son, Ben Stiller, 2 minutes into The Heartbreak Kid (2007).
Weirdly boring, but also patently despicable. Probably can't be completely fair to this, having the original so fresh in my mind for comparison, but it's wild that notes the Farrelly Brothers took away from the May version were "take out all the Jewish/WASP stuff and have the male lead be in anyway sympathetic*."
*They still managed to make him fairly shitty, which just made the attempts to make him more sympathetic feel even messier. Doesn't help that Malin Akerman is doing the Wrong Missy, but without the Lapkus magic.
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