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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 0097361317045
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Paramount Pictures
Manufacturer: Paramount Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 26, 2007
Running Time: 114 minutes
Sales Rank: 39153
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: October 05, 2007
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Product Description:
Big laughs head south of the border in the Farrelly Brothers' newest twist on boy-meets-girl. When the single and indecisive Eddie (Ben Stiller) meets the sexy and beautiful Lila (Malin Akerman) the guy who could never pull the trigger jumps the gun. While honeymooning in Mexico Eddie discovers he's made a really big mistake. He soon meets Miranda (Michelle Monaghan) his real soul mate. But when the love of your life isn't your wife things can get quickly out of control. Now it will take some desperate measures to turn his honeymoon from hell into the perfect romantic getaway.DVD Features: Commentary: Commentary by the Farrelly Brothers Other: The Farrelly Brothers in the French Tradition Other: Ben & Jerry Other: Heartbreak Halloween Other: The Egg Toss Bloopers: Gag Reel Additional Scenes: Deleted Scenes: Additional Scenes: On the Beach Additional Scenes: Fire Dancers Additional Scenes: Breakfast Order Additional Scenes: Sky Diver Additional Scenes: Pillow Additional Scenes: Driving with Dad Easter Eggs: Peter's Greatest Pratical Joke EverSystem Requirements:Running Time: 176 MinsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/ROMANTIC COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 097361317045 Manufacturer No: 131704
Amazon.com:
Ben Stiller and the Farrelly brothers bring out the best in each other. In The Heartbreak Kid, Stiller plays Eddie Cantrow, who--persuaded by his father and friends that he's commitment-phobic--marries a gorgeous and seemingly ideal woman named Lila (Malin Akerman, The Brothers Solomon) that he's been dating for several weeks. But after the wedding, things start to go awry... the least of these being that on their honeymoon, Eddie meets a woman who might truly be the girl of his dreams (Michelle Monaghan, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang). As in There's Something About Mary, writers/directors Bobby and Peter Farrelly push Stiller away from his increasingly schticky 'tense guy' persona and draw out his sweeter, more multilayered earnest side. On his end, Stiller provides a human core to what could just be a festival of raunch and absurdity (the movie features aroused donkeys, deviated septum jokes, and digitally-enhanced body hair, among other items of questionable taste). It only takes a quick comparison with Jim Carrey in Me, Myself & Irene or Jack Black in Shallow Hal to see what a surprisingly delicate balance that is. The Heartbreak Kid may not be quite as wildly sublime as There's Something About Mary, but it comes extremely close, with kudos to Akerman for her unrestrained nuttiness. --Bret Fetzer
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Rating:  - Moderate Laughs with Very Dull Characters
The Heartbreak Kid is a 2007 remake of a 1972 film with the same name. Having never seen the original film but knowing that it is cited as pretty funny for its time, I fail to see how any of the lame cheap jokes in this remake that caught me with a few guilty impulsive chuckles could've received any reaction other than disgust in 1972, as it probably does even today. Suffice to say, I think that means that as a remake this movie fails miserably, but I can't be sure. So, I am judging The Heartbreak Kid strictly on its own merit, and this movie sucks.
The Farrelly brothers, who brought us Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary, put this mish-mash together using Ben Stiller as its main protagonist. This also stars a disposable Michelle Monaghan and the completely unfunny Carlos Mencia. Rob Corddy is funny in a few scenes as Stiller's best friend but Danny McBride and Jerry Stiller are not the least bit funny in roles where they are really trying hard to be. The only person who shouldn't feel at least moderately ashamed is Malin Åkerman, who manages to be exceptionally funny and overall pretty great in an awful production. The story is basically about how Eddie (Stiller) marries Lila (Åkerman) and finds out after they marry that he made a huge mistake. The Farrelly gross-out shenanigans ensue with a fraction of the charm that exists in their prior films. Lila is disgusting in many ways and really, her scenes revealing these things are all that is funny about The Heartbreak ... Read More
Rating: - Stiller At His Worst
When the lonely Eddie (Ben Stiller) meets the perky, young, blonde woman of his dreams, Lila (Malin Akerman), in Paramount's The Heartbreak Kid, the audience immediately expects something to be wrong with her because she seems to genuinely laugh at his bumbling, neurotic behavior. Somehow, even after forty-plus years of chronic bachelor behavior, he is convinced she is the one for him--despite not really knowing anything about her-- and they marry. Of course minutes after the fact, though, when they embark on a road trip on their honeymoon, he begins to see her in a new light and progressively regrets his decision--mostly do to the fact that he meets another woman, Miranda (Michelle Monaghan), and becomes convinced she is "the one," despite not knowing her at all either. Directed by the Farrelly brothers, The Heartbreak Kid is indecisive not only in the individual characters' decisions but on the whole in the tone of the film itself. It rides the line between bittersweet comedy and painfully awkward profanity, all things Stiller and both Farrellys are known for taking on (and doing so successfully) in the past. Unfortunately here, that tired, old formula is just plain painful.
When Lila's "quirks," shall we say, first start coming to light, you can't help but wonder why Eddie isn't just blinded by the love he supposedly had for her only seconds before on-screen. Instead, though, he is utterly annoyed and horrified, and completely writes her off, even though--while exaggerated--those ... Read More
Rating: - watch it on tv
What happened to the farrely brothers??? they probably lost their talent in cabo while filming...
Anyway, to be short, i'm a huge fan of stiller, the farrely's...but this movie is only worth a watch on tv. No laugh around and certainly nothing close to there's somethiong about mary...
HD DVD is of excelent quality, sound and picture are crystal clear...but that's the least they could be on such a media.
Too bad
Rating: - Something about Mary, only without Mary and without much of the laughter
Credit goes to Jerry Stiller for keeping this from being a total bore. Well, Jerry Stiller and a few snickers at Carlos Mencia as well.
I should have started by saying that I hope the magazine whose name starts with an Ma and ends with xim canned the reviewer whose comments were clipped to put on the box. "It's Ben Stiller's funniest movie." What planet does that reviewer live on?! Funniest movie? Most definitely not.
This movie is proof that you can take most of the team that brought us Something about Mary and realize that Cameron Diaz must be a comic genius because without her you just don't get the desired effect. Malin Akerman seems to be trying to channel Diaz but just can't pull it off. Perhaps it's because in this movie, for the most part, it's the female lead that is serving as the brunt of the jokes where in Mary it was Stiller who kept having stupid things happen to him. Eventually that happens in this movie too, but by the time it does happen you've probably given up on the idea that the movie will ever really be funny.
Part 40-year old virgin wannabe, part Something About Mary wannabe, and very few parts funny. That is what is left at the end of this film.
I rated this at 2 stars. It might rise to the level of 2.5 stars, but barely. It is most definitely not the Farrelly brother's best work, nor is it the best from any of the others in the cast (except for perhaps the elder Stiller, but that likely isn't true either...) Rated ... Read More
Rating:  - Why don't you like this movie?
Im from Mexico, I love it! why don't you like this movie? its the same typical humor and character that Ben Stiller plays always!
OK! Its not new but its funny as hell!
Do you find it offensive?
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