The comedy called The Heartbreak Kid is written by Scot Armstrong, Leslie Dixon, Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly and Kevin Barnett. It is released in year 2007 and it’s directors are Bobby and Peter Farrelly. Ben Stiller is definitely the leading actor of the film.
The main character Eddie is experiencing a crisis when all of the people who he knows are married and he hasn’t found his soul mate. He meets a blond beautiful woman Lila and they get married after six weeks dating. In honeymoon Eddie finds annoying features of Lila and starts to date Miranda behind Lila’s back. Eddie leaves Lila and wants Miranda who doesn’t want him anymore. Eddie moves to honeymoon destination alone. In the end Miranda comes to vacation there and suggests a meeting which Eddie consents with and does the same thing to his new wife than Lila.
Ben Stiller fits well to his role as amusing and helpless Eddie. He has embraced perfectly his role as cheater who is benevolent man who would’t like to hurt anybody. Malin Åkerman acts Eddie’s first wife Lila. This movie tells that she can really be versatile actress and transform into her role. In the beginning of the movie she has to act innocent and kind girl with no faults and later become loony monster who has nothing but faults.She can act both sides respectable so I’m sure that Malin Åkerman is the right choice to this role.
Michelle Monaghan’s performance as Miranda is not so laudable beside Stiller’s and Åkerman’s. However she acts fine, just not brilliantly.
The sountrack of the movie promotes it’s atmosphere. All of the songs fit to the situations where they have put. There is suitably music in the movie, not too much or too little. You can here quite old but also modern music. The music is often very absorbing and makes even hardest things look not so hard. Without soundtrack this movie couldn’t get the atmosphere that it’s makers wanted. You can notice the genre of this movie also from it’s sountrack.
The plot of the film is not very predictable in the beginning of it. That’s why it is better than many other films. My favourite part of the film is the part where Eddie and Lila are going to the honeymoon (for example Lila sings all the way to the destination and Eddie can’t stand her). The film is quite easy to follow because the plot is very simple. The story is okay but the film is a little too long. I can recommend it for people who like it’s charactors and comedies and don’t suffer from nervous.