Saturday 2nd April 2011
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farelly
Year: 2007
Stars: Ben Stiller, Malin Akerman, Michelle Monaghan, Jerry Stiller
I wasn't sure about this movie. Dan had quite definitely stated he'd rather I watched it without him, so I started watching it when he was at work.
The Heartbreak Kid is about a Eddie (Stiller), a man who marries a woman in haste and then comes to regret it on their honeymoon. It's a remake of a 1972 film, and I could really see an older, better film hiding somewhere in this one. I wished I was watching that original movie, which I imagine had the interesting plot of this but without all the really crass comedy.
Not to say the movie is bad - at least for the most part. Whilst not necessarily liking many of the characters, I could sympathise with them, at least to some extent. Until, that is, the final scene - I really, really wish that hadn't been in there.
Rating: 2.5 out of 5
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