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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: 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. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: If I were in movie hell, I'd rather see Good Luck Chuck again than return to this atrocity. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: [It] won't get any prizes for its nuanced examination of the human heart. But it is straightforward and honest about the absurd, if sometimes defensible, price of placing desire above reason. It is also, yes, extremely funny at times. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: While the film needs the put-upon Ben Stiller of Flirting With Disaster or There's Something About Mary, it instead gets the recently emerged, more manic version of Stiller, who immediately throws the humor out of balance. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: 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. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: This remake is ultimately content to be repugnant. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: A grim, shrill, deluded and incredibly depressing movie, so bewilderingly mean-spirited that the trademark Farrelly Brothers gross-out scenes feel like the sweetest. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: 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. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The Farrellys' un-PC blend of sex, obscenity, and slapstick comes across as cruel this time because the brothers reduce a very human situation to a series of gross gags. Read more
Adam Graham, Detroit News: 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. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: [A] hit-or-miss, not-as-bad-as-you've-heard remake of the 1972 minor classic. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Peter and Bobby Farrelly make a half-hearted attempt to reclaim the arena of raunch with their remake of the 1972 comedy The Heartbreak Kid. Read more
Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: [The Farrelly Brothers] have taken what was a minor classic and annihilated everything that was funny about it. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: For all its lapses in grace and pacing, The Heartbreak Kid somehow manages to wear away resistance with the simple charms exhibited by its cast, including Akerman, whose sportsmanship is above and beyond the call of duty. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The new version doesn't have any of the ethnic nuance or black-comic nastiness of the earlier one, and the Farrellys miss the opportunity to add their own. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: 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. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: The Farrelly Brothers have jumped the orifice. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Like much of the Farrellys' work, there's no soul to what might very well be a Something About Mary sequel. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: The Farrellys manage to have their cake and scarf it down, disgustingly, too. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The Heartbreak Kid, while not without its share of tiny, ephemeral pleasures, is a surprisingly flat and unamusing comedy. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A squirmy miscalculation of tone. Read more
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: It's funny in spots if you can tune out the Farrellys' ultra-crass jokes -- along with any memory of the first movie. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Eddie comes off not as a beleaguered Everyman, but a heedless, dishonest knob. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: There are some good laughs to be found here, but you'll need patience to extract them from the filler. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Strip away the appalling gross-out gags and you'd be left with a movie worth seeing. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: 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. Read more
David Fear, Time Out: The original's premise has been stripped of anything to do with upward mobility, and except for one shot involving a Prince Albert, the Farrellys' signature shock humor is largely absent. Read more
David Jenkins, Time Out: The film's best moment by far comes from Eddie's under-the-thumb buddy Mac (Rob Corddry), who advises that the key to a healthy marriage is to 'plaster on a smile and wait patiently for the sweet embrace of death'. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Though not as engaging as Knocked Up, there is enough humor to keeps us entertained. Read more
Lisa Nesselson, Variety: Uproarious romp, grounded in believable if gleefully implausible human behavior, is a model of comic timing. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: 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. Read more