
Eddie is forty, owns a sporting-goods store, and is still single. After watching his ex-fiancée walk down the aisle, he meets Lila, an environmental researcher, who seems too good to be true. Pressured by his father and best friend, Eddie pops the question and marries Lila after only 6 weeks. However, as he almost instantly discovers, his new bride is a nightmare with more baggage than he can handle. She's immature, foolish, a monster in bed, owes a tremendous amount of mone... (Full plot summary below)
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Eddie is forty, owns a sporting-goods store, and is still single. After watching his ex-fiancée walk down the aisle, he meets Lila, an environmental researcher, who seems too good to be true. Pressured by his father and best friend, Eddie pops the question and marries Lila after only 6 weeks. However, as he almost instantly discovers, his new bride is a nightmare with more baggage than he can handle. She's immature, foolish, a monster in bed, owes a tremendous amount of money to various sources, and as it turns out, is only a volunteer and doesn't actually have a job. While on their honeymoon in Cabo, Eddie meets Miranda, a down-to-earth lacrosse coach who is visiting with her family. Sparks fly, and Eddie falls for her. Now comes the tricky part of breaking off his marriage to crazy Lila, all while keeping the truth from Miranda about why he's in Cabo in the first place...
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| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekA marriage definitely not made in heaven, and a picture that's a disheartening commentary on the decline in the standards of American comedy over the last quarter-century. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerEven by Farrelly standards, the film is a washout. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. Snider'Please be shocked into fits of laughter by our impish rudeness!' the Farrellys seem to say. 'Please forget the other, better R-rated comedies you've seen this year!' |
| Arizona Daily StarPhil VillarrealA knockout with wall-to-wall laughs that recalls the actor and directors in their mid-to-late 1990s primes. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenA mostly unfunny dumbing-down of the 1972 version, leaving out the subtleties of social class and ethnic friction of Neil Simon's script. |
| Urban CinefileUrban Cinefile CriticsBeyond its contagious, wacky humour, the film has a very sweet heart |
| Flipside Movie EmporiumRob VauxThe Heartbreak Kid represents less a return to form than a worn regurgitation of past success. |
| Entertainment SpectrumVince KoehlerHeartbreak Kid will mend your heart by the end of this film and have you breaking a stitch from continuous laughter. |
| Palo Alto WeeklyTyler HanleyAlthough the edgy humor provides plenty of side-splitting moments, Heartbreak ultimately cracks beneath a lackluster storyline. |
| Sean the Movie GuySean McBrideIt's done in bad taste, but unlike their past few films, I must admit that I laughed this time out. |