songbirdmc
As per usual this movie was marketed as a comendy and IT ISN'T. Why do they wish to mislead the audience so much!? Duh! Because they want us to spend money on the movie even if it means that we regret it! I remember my sister and I were absolutely starving for a good comedy and the previews looked somewhat promising and I'm a fan of Jennifer Aniston and I guess you could say Vince Vaughn as well. I swear as I was sitting in the theater I kept expecting it to take a turn that would put it on the track I expected it to go on. But it never does. You would think something unexpected would be good, but it isn't.Sadly, this movie is sad. S A D. First, because of the breakup and then the heartache that follows, but also because of the comedy that was attempted and failed horribly. I found myself thinking will this scene ever end!? Multiple times. It's just going and going and going and they expect us to find it funny, but it's actually horrible and painful to sit through. Speaking of painful -that ending! What even was that? They left it so open to interpretation. I really wish they would have given us more of an idea of whether or not they would possibly reconcile. I'm guessing not. I really hate movies that don't have a definitive ending.I wanted to love it, but unfortunately I didn't even like it.
gwnightscream
Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston star in this 2006 romantic comedy-drama. This takes place in Chicago, Illinois where we meet Gary (Vaughn), a tour guide and his girlfriend, Brooke (Aniston), an art dealer. Soon, things drastically change for them when Gary doesn't step up in their relationship. They both drift apart, but decide to stay in their condo where things get tense. They seek advice from friends and relatives, but eventually they both realize they have to change. Joey Lauren Adams, Judy Davis, Ann-Margret, Justin Long, Vincent D'Onofrio and Cole Hauser appear and Vaughn's frequent collaborators, Jason Bateman, Peter Billingsley, John Michael Higgins and John Favreau also appear. This isn't bad, it has some humorous and dramatic moments and Vaughn & Aniston are good together. I recommend this.
bowmanblue
Some actors get typecast pretty quickly. I think it's fair to say that Jenifer Aniston is one. She readily plays the lovable, kooky happy-go-lucky characters in a will they/won't they romantic relationship (and let's face it - they always do).I don't normally watch romantic comedies. I find them predictable and identical (and rarely are any of them worthy of the 'comedy' half of their labelled genre). I was curious about The Break Up because I heard it didn't subscribe to romantic comedies' formula. And there's a very good reason for this - that is because it's NOT a romantic comedy.Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn get together in the opening montage and break up about fifteen minutes into the film. I knew this before I watched it. Therefore, what I expected, was roughly another seventy-five minutes of laughs as the two central protagonists make each other's lives hell.However, what I got was simply two people being nasty to each other. Sadly, this is probably a lot more realistic than most rom-coms, and, upon watching it, I think I'd rather stick with the fantasy of boy meets girl and they live happily ever after.The bottom line is that this film is more of a drama than a comedy - the jokes are few and far between. The scripted arguments may be accurate, but they're not that nice to keep watching. It's quite sexist too. Jenifer Aniston may be a bit uptight, but Vince Vaughn is a berk. The hardest thing to imagine is these two characters getting together in the first place and staying together long enough to even buy a house, let alone fight over who should keep it once they've split.Bottom line - yes, it's more 'real' than a romantic comedy, yet it has less comedic elements than even the most unfunny romantic comedy. It certainly doesn't stick to the rom-com genre. For the first time in my life I find myself saying 'Pity.'
mariondowning-427-469344
The overused formula: The guy is classless and unattractive and the girl is classy, meant to be attractive and with taste. The guy talks like the guy from "King of Queens" to his wife. He also talks like Jack Black in the 'lazy throw away lines way' - this type of "attractive girl marries slob of a man and ends up annoyed" formula is done to death. It also isn't funny anymore.Typical Jennifer Aniston vehicle where she overacts and whines at a man while being high maintenance and complains to her friends about him(makes you wonder if that's how she really is- if so congrats on getting out Mr Pitt).Can you believe this film is being used by psychiatrists to explain how men and women think differently. In reality it isn't even about how men and women think differently. It's about a dramatized relationship with extreme people who really wouldn't be together anyway and everyone else on the planet would want to divorce if it meant they could get away from them. Who makes their husband go out and buy lemons to decorate a table anyway? First world Hollywood Housewives problem.
AD
