Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "The Break-Up" is an American English-language film from 2006, so this one had its 10th anniversary last year. It was directed by Peyton Reed, who was in the headlines not too long ago thanks to the new Ant-Man movie. The script comes from Jeremy Garelick and Jay Lavender and for both of them, this 100-minute film is probably still their most known work. Which really says nothing positive in their favor. The reason for that is that this film we have here is the epitome of a forgettable romantic comedy. Most of the jokes aren't working at all and I personally found it difficult honestly to like any of the two protagonists, let alone cheer for them. It also proves than Vince Vaughn is not lead actor material at all and that Jennifer Aniston, no matter how much of a sweetheart and darling she may be, is no lead actress material either. At least if we go by 2006 standards. I have not seen her more recent work like the one film that she almost got Oscar-nominated for.Anyway, the story here is about a couple on the verge of split-up throughout the entire film and they are basically only still somewhat together because neither wants to give up on their amazing apartment. So what is the solution? Both give up on it. Doesn't make any sense to be honest. Besides, the comedy relies on stuff like Aniston's character running around naked after they basically split up already to get him horny and maybe agree to leave the house to get away from his ex provoking him, but not letting him get any. Or him playing video games for hours with her new potential boyfriends. It's just not entertaining. Quality actors like Davis, D'Onofrio and Bateman (actually all better than the leads) are wasted for pointless supporting characters that add nothing to the story, perhaps in a desperate attempt by the filmmakers to prove to us that Aniston and Vaughn are on a higher level. They may be bigger names, but they just don't have the range. Anyway, with the ending they probably tried to be creative and actually make a dramatic impact also with them actually splitting up as one could have thought throughout the entire film that they may get together again. But of course, they weren't bold enough to really go for it all and instead include an uninspired fake happy ending in which the romantically hopeless (I am not talking actual romantics, but just the desperate) can think that they are really getting back together in fact. Of course these are the ones who also consider Jennifer Aniston one of the best actresses from her generation. Four stars out of ten is still extremely generous for this really bad film. I recommend to stay far far away.

mark.waltz A combination of misogyny and misandry, this shows a generation gap, a gender gap, hatred towards potential in-laws, and makes the man look like a fool while it makes the woman look like a passive/aggressive control freak. This comedy shows too completely incompatible people moving into a gorgeous apartment together without obviously really thinking it through. Jennifer Aniston, one of today's top leading ladies, has never warmed me on screen, and I found myself despising her from the start. She's the type of female (certainly no lady) who expects the men in her life to read her mind. According to her state of confusion, insisting that she feels cut flowers are a waste so that means that she really wants her man to buy her flowers. Vince Vaughan is no prize either. He's guilty of being a slob, not offering to help, and when he agrees to do the dishes, she's angry because he didn't offer. But my biggest issue with him is that I did not find him at all believable, speaking lines that seem to be the most one dimensional viewpoint of the world's biggest misandrists.Perhaps modern relationships haven't improved with the E.R.A., and the vengeance of angry broads vs. the one upmanship of male chauvinists determined to keep control. This is not a couple that I'm rooting for to see get back together, let alone go out on a date in the first place. She's got a strange family that seems like they are from outer space. Even mom Ann-Margret seems like she dropped in from another world in her few scenes, although I never bought her as Aniston's mother in the first place. Judy Davis appears to be playing the Patti LuPone of the art gallery world, rather severe and sadly wasted. The effeminate receptionist is also a rather unnecessary character as well, stereotypically overly sensitive and flamboyant, basically a gay cartoon character.This is trying so hard to be hip, modern and current, but only proves several points according to the script. Straight men are insensitive pigs that need to be trained and controlled by the women they date. Their women are harpy's, manipulative and demanding, not worth the psychological risk of a lifetime of angry stares and immediate confrontations once the door is closed after company leaves. I found myself yelling at the screen in frustration at the one dimensional modern way that humanity has turned the battle of the sexes (funny in old screwball comedies) into something that looks like a Fifth Avenue parade right after the crowd has dispersed. I watched the entire film to get the whole picture, one of the ugliest pictures of male and female relationships I've ever seen.

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.

SnoopyStyle Gary Grobowski (Vince Vaughn) is a loud mouth boorish Neanderthal who works as a tour guide in Chicago. Brooke Meyers (Jennifer Aniston) works at an art gallery and feels completely neglected by him. They fight and they break up. Only neither of them are willing to move out of their luxury apartment and a war of the sexes ensues.He is an insensitive idiot. It's not a new character for Vince and it's getting tiresome. She's a high maintenance girlfriend disguised as the girl next door. Again it's not a new character. They are not likable characters and I'm getting tired of the actors doing the same thing over and over again. They don't make for a good couple, and they don't have good chemistry. They should never be together in the first place. The only good thing is that they don't get back together.This is meant to be a comedy. But there is too much serious anger and hate to be funny. It had a chance of this being a dark comedy, but nobody here could figure out how to make one.