Why The Heartbreak Kid (2007) Is One of the Worst Remakes of All Time
Boy, that Severance finale was good, eh? With all the acclaim and accolades he's receiving these days as a director/producer, it's a real possibility at this point we never see Ben Stiller starring in a comedy film again. Which, ya know, is and isn't a shame. Stiller certainly has a unique energy for someone who ended up an A-lister. His first big break (outside of a small role in Spielberg's war epic Empire of the Sun ) was being hired as a writer and performer on Saturday Night Live, where he left after only 4 episodes because they wouldn't let him do his more esoteric short films. Later on, he'd land his own sketch show at FOX, where he cast Janeanne Garofalo, Bob Odenkirk and a totally chill guy named Andy Dick as his co-leads, and filled his writers room with the likes of future Mr. Show vets David Cross and Dino Stamatopoulos. That doesn't read like a guy who'd eventually headline three Night at the Museum movies. Pictured: A man more than lik...
