MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

frank hamill Compared to the original ...this is absolute garbage. This movie is geared for the 13-14 year old that would find this movie funny. This not a put down to 13-14 year old. I would find it funny at 14 too. 90% of all movies are geared to this age group today. Spiderman-superman-wonder woman etc

longcooljolie Hollywood seems to love to do remakes because they come with a built-in audience because of the curiosity factor. Sometimes remakes are shot-by-shot re-tellings of the previous movie, but more often the story gets updated or modernized.The Farrelly brothers chose an interesting target for the only one of their movies which is a true remake, the 1972 adult comedy "The Heartbreak Kid." It's not a spoiler to reveal that the story revolves around a man who falls for another woman while on his honeymoon and leaves his wife for her. In the original the male character was Lenny Kantrow and he sold sporting goods, while in this remake the character's name is Eddie and he owns a sporting goods store. That's pretty much where the similarities end however.IMDb contains many negative reviews about this movie, especially from the viewing public, which calls the jokes crude and the spirit of the movie mean. For me, the producers expanded the universe of the original movie and added their signature funny bits to make it worthwhile.The remake "Heartbreak Kid" starts off with Eddie meeting a beautiful blonde on Valentine's Day just after he watched his ex-fiancée marry another man (the wedding reception contains some funny scenes and one-off characters).Eddie and his new love Lila launch into a whirlwind romance and he ends up hastily proposing to her and marrying her. Then the fun starts and the remade movie flips the script on the original. In the 1972 movie, it starts off with Lenny marrying a cute, but slightly mousy brunette and then falls for an all-American blonde while they are on the honeymoon in Miami.In the remake, Eddie marries the hot blonde and since they live in San Francisco, they go to Cabo San Lucas for their honeymoon, which could be considered the west coast version of going to Miami. Oh yeah, the wife gets sun-burnt in both movies, which allows the husband time and opportunity to fall into the arms of someone else.Eddie's new love interest is brunette Miranda, a pert and cheerful women's lacrosse coach from Oxford, Mississippi. After he pries himself away from the sun-burnt and cloying Lila, he sets out for Mississippi to chase her down; in the original, Lenny treks to Minnesota for the same purpose, so that's another way the script was flipped.Yeah, it's not going to be on anybody's list of Greatest 100 movies, but "The Heartbreak Kid" still contains a clever twist on the original and has many funny scenes. It's definitely worth a look.

teresa_dejesus The best thing about this film is that Jerry Stiller and Polly Holiday are in the cast. ***************** **************** ************** ***SPOILER** ***SPOILER* ***SPOILER ********* ****** *** * Stiller plays an infantile man who gets his dream girl without trying. His character is really gross: picks up said dream girl during his honeymoon then stalks her by breaking into her home because "the heart wants what the heart wants." To make him sympathetic, "bitches be crazy" gets repeated throughout the film, and Malin Ackerman, who plays Stiller's wife, is made visually unappealing by giving her a third-degree sunburn, complete with blisters, along with a deviated septum through which she spouts liquid and carne asada at inopportune times. Malin. Ackerman. Even with the make-up and slapstick, she's freaking gorgeous, but this film assigns a woman's worth based on appearance. Consequently, the women you're supposed to hate are telegraphed via visual cues such as preposterous plastic surgery or untrimmed pubic hair. Also, it's unfunny.

SnoopyStyle Eddie (Ben Stiller) is a hopeless romantic. His father Doc (Jerry Stiller) can't understand why he doesn't crush more cookies after Jodi. His friend Mac (Rob Corddry) is an annoying jerk. Lila (Malin Akerman) gets robbed by a purse snatcher and Eddie tries to help. They start dating. When her environmental research job forces her to Rotterdam, he decides to keep her in San Francisco by marrying her after only 6 weeks of dating. They go to Cabo for the honeymoon. Soon he discovers all her craziness and he starts questioning his decision. While in Cabo, Eddie falls Miranda (Michelle Monaghan) and he has to break off with Lila while trying to keep the truth from Miranda. Her cousin Martin (Danny McBride) doesn't trust him at all.Ben Stiller is trying to be the everyman. Malin Akerman is flailing away too much. It's like dying from a thousand different cuts. It doesn't make Ben Stiller any more likable. He comes off as shallow with every twitch at Akerman's craziness and every lie he tells. Michelle Monaghan is perfectly nice but Malin Akerman was perfectly nice before the Farrellys got through with her.The Farrelly brothers are missing something in this. I think it's missing a good heart. The main problem is that every character is an annoying outlandish cartoon. Even the nice people are annoyingly unlikeable. That's not necessary and rather distracting. There are some funny moments. Some of the wacky Farrelly brothers jokes actually work. The overall story doesn't work that well.