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The Heartbreak Kid (2007) DVD Review
The Heartbreak Kid (2007) DVD Credits:
The Heartbreak Kid (2007) Directed by:
Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly
The Heartbreak Kid (2007) Written by:
Not available at this time
The Heartbreak Kid (2007) Cast:
Michelle Monaghan, Ben Stiller, Malin Akerman, Carlos Mencia, Rob Corddry
The Heartbreak Kid (2007) Released by:
Conundrum Entertainment, Radar
Region:
1
The Heartbreak Kid (2007) DVD Release Date:
26th December 2007
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The Heartbreak Kid (2007) Synopsis:

Ben Stiller plays a man who hastily marries a young woman he thinks is his perfect mate. As he watches her turn into a nightmare on their honeymoon, he meets another woman who might be his real soulmate (Michelle Monaghan).

The Heartbreak Kid (2007) DVD Review:

The gross-out humor of directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly became a sensation with There’s Something About Mary, and it seemed that they were returning to these roots when their new collaboration with Ben Stiller was announced. Stiller saw just as much success with the raunchy yet still sweet comedy about a man searching out his high school prom date as an adult. Unfortunately after making many much tamer comedies the Farrelly Brothers don’t seem to balance the two with The Heartbreak Kid. The romance still remains without the sweetness and the raunchiness has reached absurd levels of cruelty and outlandishness. Bathroom humor is the mainstay and no bodily function goes unused.

Ben Stiller goes salt-and-pepper with his hair in this remake of Neil Simon’s adaptation of the short story by Jay Friedman, because the fact that Eddie is entering the later part of middle-life and still unmarried results in the unfortunate situation. After Eddie attends his ex-girlfriend’s wedding he begins to feel like he should settle down. When he meets a beautiful and sexy woman named Lila (Malin Akerman) on the streets of San Francisco things seem to be going great until her job calls her out of state. As a quick solution Eddie and Lila decide to get married, but it isn’t until their honeymoon in Mexico that they really start to get to know each other.

From a former cocaine problem that now causes fluids to come flying from her nose to constant singing, Lila is a disaster as a wife. Everything she does irritates Eddie and she is emotional and unpredictably crazy whenever he upsets her in the slightest. Eddie lucks out when Lila gets a horrific sunburn and must stay in, allowing Eddie to get to know an attractive lacrosse coach who is vacationing in Mexico for a family reunion. The more Eddie gets to know his new wife, the more he falls for another woman, spending time with her on his honeymoon.

The plot may seem to make an unlikable protagonist, but in truth it is hardly noticeable with all of the crude sequences orchestrated by the Farrelly filmmakers. Sequence after sequence the humor is void of any subtlety and attempts to push the boundaries without considering how it will affect the characters. We aren’t supposed to like the characters as much as we are supposed to laugh at them in all of their misfortune.

The main menu for the DVD essentially gives the entire film in a few quick clips, and just by watching this menu I could tell that plot was irrelevant, just as the characters are when they are not the butt of a joke. The special features on the DVD include plenty of extra footage in the form of deleted scenes, a gag reel, and some behind-the-scenes footage in featurettes. There is also a commentary track with the Farrelly Brothers and a featurette about Ben Stiller and Jerry Stiller, his real-life-father who plays his father in the film.

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The Heartbreak Kid (2007) DVD review written by: Ryan Izay

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