I've said it before with the Farrelly's. Their movies would sometimes be better after being edited for TV. These guys aren't just okay with being funny, they want to shock also. Unfortunately those two things don't always go together. There are two jokes in this movie that fly off the ramp of shock/funny compatibility and completely miss the landing. They don't work and shouldn't be in the movie. I'm talking about that nude elderly woman with DDD breasts in a hot tub and the scene where there is urinating on jellyfish wounds. Both are unneeded and unfunny and probably cost this movie a dozen good reviews and millions in box office receipt.
But I'm not giving it a bad review. Mostly because practically every other joke in this movie landed, the story itself was very good, it had real emotion, and a plot that surprised me as to where it went. Calling it 'The Heartbreak Kid' is no mistake. One feels real sympathy for the Stiller charachter and his extremely bad luck. He finds the women of his dreams on his honeymoon trip with a wife that turns out to be a nightmare. They kind of get married to quickly you know. At one point she calls him Edmund and he has to correct her. His name is Edward. Apparently they had never talked about it that much.
This movie is filled with laughs from beginning to end, and between the raunch and filth there are moments of sincerity that give the characters real depth and sympathy. Like I said, all it needed was a few trims here and there. Take out about 3 minutes of bad jokes and this is as good a movie as the Farrelly's made in there Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin, and There's Something About Mary heyday.
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