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Critics Consensus: A lack of chemistry between Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer fatally undermines the dull and predictable Story of Us.
Critic Consensus: A lack of chemistry between Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer fatally undermines the dull and predictable Story of Us.
All Critics (82) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (59) | DVD (7)
If you see this shrill, clumsy comedy... you may wonder if the movie could have been saved by another director (instead of Rob Reiner) working with other writers (instead of Alan Zweibel and Jessie Nelson).
Its manufactured crises and too-glib jokes give it a facile, fraudulent air.
The Story of Us is a story of confused intentions and misused talents.
This is a second-rate Woody Allen midlife crisis comedy without the laughs.
This one gets stuck in a rut pretty early on and has difficulty rising out of it.
The Story of Us is all too willing to settle for superficial comedy and pat answers at the expense of real insight.
Lightheartedly conveys that the sources of marital love can be renewed even after a period of spiritual dryness.
There is no need to run right out. See a Matinee.
The Story of Us is a film that is constantly manipulating the audience with sweet and sour montages, flashbacks, narration and Eric Clapton's two-ton musical score.
I like what the film tries to do with this theme but shuddered as it was reduced to repetitious confrontations and hollow wisecracks.
Watching these two attractive actors verbally slug it out is about as much fun as experiencing your own divorce.
A film that disappoints on every level.
Hey...If I want relationship trouble I'll get a wife and start picking on all that she does. Pfeiffer was good though.
Super Reviewer
Director Rob Reiner's somber study of the collapse of a 15-year marriage probably wasn't intended to be so depressing. In using a continual flashback/flashforward style of storytelling, he ends up putting too much emphasis on the bickering between heartbroken mates and not enough on their early years of love and harmony. This lack of balance mars what might have been a touching, involving movie.
I love this film. Rob Reiner rocks. The story winds as a couple grows apart and somehow back together. Seems to show a true version of love and all that comes with it.
This wasn't all that good.
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