Spoiler Alert Wet Dream: Reviewing a film I haven't seen that is remake of a film I haven't seen. The Heartbreak Kid is a forced attempt by both Ben Stiller and the Farrelly Bros to rekindle some small amount of past hilarity by squeezing out more pus-filled jokes per minute than the last American Pie epic. And it all comes wrapped in a misogynistic fantasy of Ben's playboy life. Ben, stick to awkward and funny rather than cocky and manic. We'll laugh more and hate you less.
Welcome to The Farrelly Bros. vs The Apatow Gang in a ten round fight to the death with the winner getting our ten bucks admission and our belly laughs and the loser getting nothing but empty promises from studios that once optioned their script on name alone. The Farrelly Bros. got off some big rights early, but the last 4 rounds have gone easily to the Apatow Gang. If the Farrellys don't start getting to the punch line soon, this fight will be over in no time with Kingpin being nothing but a fading memory. The Heartbreak Kid is a weak jab blocked easily by Superbad.
And what's up with this "Kid" business? Ben Stiller's face is starting to look a lot more Permanent Midnight than Reality Bites. Yes, skinny looks better on film, but anorexic on film looks, well, anorexic. And the salt-n-pepper hair rinse? When you grey-up a head that big and swing it around on screen, you risk a Pokemon-like incident with people having epileptic seizures from coast to coast. Luckily, anyone coming to see this film will already be wearing a safety helmet.
Heed the warning to the right and Do Not Enter because the biggest heartbreak of all will be as you weep over the hard earned cash you wasted.
Stiller is an epileptic fit (regardless of grey rinse). Unless he has a director with a stun-gun and a leash, Stiller will go out-of-control wacky-stupid (ala Jerry Lewis).
This may very well be a huge hit in France!
Posted by: Yo Yo | October 10, 2007 at 11:34 AM