H is for The Heartbreak Kid (2007), Film #236

I haven’t seen the original The Heartbreak Kid (starring Charles Grodin) in a long time, but I don’t remember it being as irritating as this remake. This time Ben Stiller takes on the role of the newlywed who meets his true love on his honeymoon. The big problem: we are never given a reason to care about this guy nor want him to find happiness. He doesn’t deserve it. He marries for the wrong reasons, has second thoughts for the wrong reasons, behave wrongly with the girl that he meets, handles the breakup wrong and even manages to screw up his potential happy ending. He’s an ass and you can’t capture an audience with such an unlikable loser as a central figure.

Nothing else about the film matters much. It’s nice to see Stiller’s father Jerry Stiller playing his fictional father and the new love interest is played by the remarkably striking Michelle Monaghan, but what’s the point? I’ll never watch this pile of drek again and you should avoid ever watching it in the first place.

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