Fresh from the success of his movie,”A Night at the Museum” which grossed nearly $600 million worldwide, the actor, director, producer and writer Ben Stiller did it again! Offered another hit in the big screen through his new movie “The Heartbreak Kid”. The cast includes a Cameron Diaz lookalike Malin Akerman and young new actress in Hollywood Michelle Monaghan, this film will fill you with almost two hours of *nonstop laughter and sheer enterntainment. This hilarious-comedy movie is a remake of Elaine May's 1972 comedy, originally written by Neil Simon. The Farrelly Brothers (Bobby and Peter), the directors, gave the film a new look and definetely a fun experience for those who watched this film.Unmarried and just turned 40, sporting goods store owner in San Francisco Eddie Cantrow (Ben Stiller) have'nt been as lucky in love as his friends. Feeling like the whole world has paired off except him, he is hungry for romance and wants to meet the girl of his dream ASAP.
After he interrupts and save a beautiful girl from a snatcher on the streets of San Francisco, Eddie meets the vivacious Lila (Malin Akerman). Thinking that she's the perfect woman for him, Eddie *was convinced that Lila is the woman he's meant to be with *which resulted in a hasty proposal. The duo quickly got married and proceeded to go on the honeymoon from at a Mexican resort where all of Lila's secrets started coming out. The evidence starts piling up from the moment they hit the road when Lila shows hilarious attitude that normally womans don't have. More of her hideous attitude came out and Eddie begins to realize he's made a terrible mistake of marrying Lila. At the resort, Eddie had a chance to meet Miranda (Michelle Monaghan), a wholesome high school lacrossed teacher which result in a casual conversation between them. Soon, Eddie is producing excuses to leave his bride behind and spend time with Miranda together. As he fall in-love for Miranda, Eddie tries his best to level with both women. But a series of misunderstandings leads to a wildly funny confrontation among a man, two women and a Portuguese man o' war as Eddie finds a way to escape from his days-old marriage without losing the girl of his dreams.
I noticed some of the contents and funny jokes scene in the movie seems somehow like in the movie “There's Something About Marry”,also a Ben Stiller's movie, that doesn't set any new standards in comedy movie. But all-in-all, I found the movie very entertaining and most of its jokes were in timing result in a good delivery of those and for sure watching this film really makes your money and time well spent. MPAA rated it as “R” for strong sexual content, crude humor and language in the movie. The movie was released last October 5, 2007 in 3229 theaters worldwide and is now available on DVDs at DVD.tv
