Well, the original was a hoot. Hope the remake makes the grade!!!!
Didn't you love his wife? She was soooo out there!!!
Did you know she is Elaine May's daughter????
If cats could talk, they wouldn't...
They're doing a remake??!! Is it going to be the same story? Who are the leads?
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Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Remakes suck! :-)
Check out Elaine May´s other 2 movies (but not ISHTAR, it is indeed terrible), the other 2 are really good, too ! Esp. A NEW LEAF !! :-))))))
I saw New Leaf when it first came out (yes, my age is showing) and loved it. Then I started following her stand up career with Mike Nichols. They were hilarious...almost as funny as Stiller & Meara were, back in the day...
When their numbers dwindled from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect Hungry.
The remake was crap and I think that this comedy should have been left alone
shareThis film should've never been remade. Comedies are very hard to begin with, when you try to remake classics you're just asking for trouble. The remake of the Heartbreak Kid reminded me of the remake of The Longest Yard, both classic comedies and the remakes were both awful.
shareI love the remake, so I finally watched the original. Man, I've got to say, the remake was a million times better! Very rare for the remake to be better, but this wasn't even close. I was surprised that Lila and Cybil Shepards character see each other right in the beginning, much better the way the Stiller movie handled that. And Shepard's character in the original wasn't as endearing as Monaghan's in the remake. So many funny lines and characters in the remake, very few in the original.
shareKelly's not really supposed to be an "endearing" character. She's a beautiful, but semi-bitchy woman that Lenny IDEALIZES because he's in a position to do so. The godawful remake completely missed the point of Simon's original script by making Lila a typical comic mismatch for Lenny, and Kelly a perfect match. The point of the original isn't that he missed out on a great thing by making a mistake and marrying the wrong person...it's about the fact that Kelly is wrong for him, too, and he simply doesn't see that until it's too late.
The remake is the typical "safe" Hollywood crap that's made today. It makes its male lead out to be a decent guy caught in a bad situation, rather than someone who's messed up his own life, and continues to do so even as the film draws to a close. I seriously doubt that anyone over the age of 16 could prefer the remake over the original.
While the original was far superior to the cheap imitation of a re-make. It was most likely done for two reasons.
1. Face it...the Hollywood idea pool is empty
2. Todays "target" audience can't identify with the actors from the original. Most likely they don't even know who they are.
Of course I'm an egomaniac! I have America's Sweetheart climbing up my drainpipe!
Congratulations gioreeko, you're officially a MORON! anyone that thinks the remake is even watchable! is brain dead, DOA! you idiot!
gioreeko are you part of the RETARD generation? 1985 - Present.
What's it like too watch a movie while playing video games, talking on a cell phone, listening too your ipod, reading a book off a computer screen, consuming Mountain Dew, KFC, Taco Bell and last but not least, taking prescription drugs?
Thanks, balboa76--couldn't have said it better myself. The original "The Heartbreak Kid" is a brilliant dark comedy. Lenny is a cringe-worthy "hero"--he's terminally shallow. Kelly is a classic narcissist. Lila is earnest and sincere, but full of annoying little quirks. It's not supposed to be a likable comedy about meeting cute and happy endings, which is what he remake is. Even thinking that anyone really liked that piece of crap makes me very, very sad.
shareWhat a sad and pathetic person you are. I know many 'retards' as you describe them, and hell of a lot of them were born before 1985. I also know a few people who have what I would describe as a good taste in films and surprise surprise they were all born both sides of '85. Don't be such a generalising pr!ck.
For the record, just saw The Heartbreak Kid for the first time and very much enjoyed it. Loved the unconventional downer of an ending. I wasn't even aware there was a Ben Stiller remake until I logged onto IMDb and I have no interest in seeing it at all. I was born in... you guessed it, 1985! The year that 'retards' started populating the earth.
I'm just a bloody normal bloke. A normal bloke who likes a bit of torture.