You will be ashamed of me, but as a man with an eclectic taste for films, every now and then, I must take in a guilty pleasure. The Heartbreak Kid is a forgotten Farrelly Bros. gross-out comedy. Understandably, audiences and critics thought it was a bit much. Critics lambasted it for being mean-spirited. Compared to There's Something About Mary, I admit, there is no shred of sweetness in any of the characters here. They are all despicable. Stiller's character especially. A low-life, cheating, scumbag if there ever was one. The film wants you to root for him... in finding the sexier, saner woman over Stiller's troubled newlywed. Everything about that is wrong, wrong, wrong. But that's the joke. The Heartbreak Kid thrives on cringe humor. I'd say, in a similar vein to Curb Your Enthusiasm. It's funny, particularly because the situation is so horrible. Then you pair it up with the endless gross-out humor that the Farrelly's are famous for, but this time, on steroids. Jokes about pubic hair, urine, devastating sunburns, jellyfish attacks and things that should never be up someone's nose. The traveling mariachi band particularity had me rolling. It all works, except for one joke with a Donkey that genuinely went way too far. The Heartbreak Kid is not great cinema. It's trash. But it's funny trash and that's better than nothing.

A newly wed man who believes he's just gotten hitched to the perfect woman encounters another lady on his honeymoon. The Heartbreak Kid (2007) is one of those films that some people will like and some won't like personally i'm on the middle i liked the performances from Ben Stiller, Jerry Stiller, Michelle Monaghan, Malin Akerman, Rob Corddry and Danny McBride and they are in my opinion some good actors that can do both comedy and drama and anything that you want and that's the good thing. Now when the movie tries to be funny? It's kinda of a letdown for example Akerman pee on Stiller's back and seeing her privates isn't that funny to be honest or some really unsexy sex scenes. If you can deal with the weird humor and some weird moments in general you might actually like this movie it was fun mostly cause of the actors. (7.5/10)

A man is on his honeymoon with an absolute knockout beauty heart throb, and he decides to divorce her because some more average looking woman tells him she has her spot on the beach.There's nothing to like about this movie, and nothing to care for about this guy. It is hard to say whether this is as poor as THE GRADUATE, but this is pretty much the same movie. A control freak guy simply wants to make the world a worse place for as many people as he can.I sat through it to review it, but that's the only reason to sit through it.Eddie Albert provides the "star" attraction as the father of the average girl next door. His role is poorly written. For some reason, he goes off on a rant at a situation that most men would just laugh at. The Ben Stiller character asks for his blessing to divorce on a honeymoon with a knockout to marry the daughter.This is "par" for the course for Stiller, though, who shows nothing, and who chooses the worst and dullest scripts one can imagine. The saddest thing is that so much money was wasted for something with zero inspiration and imagination, when there are real scripts out there with inspiration and imagination being passed over by self righteous maniacs like Stiller.

Ben Stiller, Michelle Monaghan, Malin Akerman and Jerry Stiller star in this 2007 comedy remake of the 1972 film. Stiller (Zoolander) plays bachelor, Eddie who hasn't found the right woman yet. Ackerman (Couples Retreat) plays Lila, an attractive woman he soon meets and dates. After 6 weeks, Eddie decides to marry her and they go to Mexico for their honeymoon. Soon, Eddie learns he may have made a mistake when Lila is not whom he expected. Eddie secretly finds romance with another woman, Miranda (Monaghan) who eventually learns he's married. The Farrelly Brothers directed this and previously worked with Stiller in "There's Something About Mary." Stiller's father, Jerry (The King of Queens) naturally plays his on screen father, Doc and Danny McBride (Pineapple Express), Scott Wilson (The Walking Dead) & Polly Holliday (Gremlins) also appear. This is a good comedy with a great cast I recommend.