That dirty feeling comes from the cumulative gross-out spurt of recent popular culture -- the "Jackass" movies and "Borat," "Knocked Up" and "Superbad." ...

Elaine May’s 1972 comedy, “The Heartbreak Kid,” is about a cad who abandons his wife on their honeymoon to chase an ideal woman. The audience knows he’s a cad, and the comedy comes from ...

The heartbreak kid Fri 5 Oct 2007 at 01:00 When you buy a ticket for a Farrelly brothers film, you should have a fairly good idea of what you're going to get -- slapstick, toilet humour ...

At least one theatrical trailer for “The Heartbreak Kid” made the new Farrelly brothers comedy, a remake of Elaine May’s perceptive 1972 hit, look sadly and unappetizingly broad. As with the ...

The Farrelly brothers' "Heartbreak Kid" is broader, more graphic and stupider than the movie Elaine May directed back in the 1970s. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Though if you want to think it ...

‘The Heartbreak Kid” is an entry in that very specific genre the Ben Stiller Romantic Comedy, which is to say it’s a romantic comedy in which his ‘nads get pummeled, snagged or pinched.