It's not a good sign when a movie is called The Break-Up and you can't wait for the couple to split so they'll get some relief from one another, and give the audience some relief from them.
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06/22/06
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The Break-Up (2006)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:8
Rotten:31
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: This anti-romantic comedy lacks both laughs and insight, resulting in an odd and unsatisfying experience.
Theatrical Release:Jun 2, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $118,683,135
Synopsis: Despite its seemingly classic date-movie setup, THE BREAK UP bucks romantic comedy tradition at almost every turn. Gary (Vince Vaughn) and Brooke (Jennifer Aniston) are a mismatched couple who... [More]
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Bateman
Director: Peyton Reed
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Reviews for The Break-Up
Top CriticOne seemingly terminal problem with the casting of Ms. Aniston and Mr. Vaughn is that neither of their careers has featured characters who excelled at one-to-one relationships with the opposite sex.
06/21/06
Top CriticVince Vaughn kills me. Jennifer Aniston, I think, is underrated as a film actress.
06/05/06
Top CriticThe movie offers nothing funny, just a series of sour situations.
06/02/06
Top CriticIt's the most interesting spin on domestic strife since Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner were hurling dishes at each other in The War of the Roses.
06/02/06
Top CriticA romantic comedy that's short on both romance and comedy.
06/02/06
Top CriticWith a movie unwilling to go for the jugular, it's more like the dismal The Story of Us than The War of the Roses.
06/02/06
Top CriticI don't know if The Break-Up qualifies as a date movie. But it will serve as a cautionary tale for couples falling in love.
06/02/06
Top CriticIt might not be the frosted lemon tart that's been advertised for months, but it is solid, satisfying fare -- flecked with humor, grounded in pain.
06/02/06
Top CriticThe Break-Up goes badly wrong. Although possessed of a laudable desire not to be yet another run-of-the-mill, wacky-impediment -- damned if the picture can figure out how to be an anti-romance comedy.
06/02/06
Top CriticAs an off-beat anatomy of a troubled couple, the film almost succeeds. As summer movie fun well, it's not.
06/02/06
Top CriticIf you really feel the need to be bullied and insulted, just call up your HMO provider or reserve a table at an expensive restaurant.
06/02/06
Top CriticIt doesn't work as a revealing look at relationships or as a consistently funny comedy about the war between the sexes.
06/02/06
Top CriticIf 7 Up is the un-cola, consider The Break-Up, -- the un-romantic comedy.
06/02/06
Top CriticLike so many contemporary movies, The Break-Up doesn't know when to call it quits, and the film finally expires after several false endings.
06/02/06
Top CriticThe Break-Up mostly just lies there -- alternately adoring and condemning its characters for their puppyish refusal to grow up.
06/02/06
Top CriticFor the movie to work, we would have to like the couple and want them to succeed. Despite some sincere 11th-hour soul-searching by Gary, we're sorry, but we don't want them back together, we want them to end their misery.
06/02/06
Top CriticNobody likes a fixed fight, except the backroom boys making the deal. Which is why The Break-Up may have its share of laughs, but isn't much fun.
06/02/06
Top CriticIt's full of pain and quirky characters standing at oblique angles to one another, and while it doesn't add up it held me throughout.
06/02/06
Top CriticIt is the Mutt & Jeff qualities of Aniston and Vaughn that have the most comic potential. Alas, it goes untapped here.
06/01/06
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