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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 11337
Released: October 17, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston star in the charming and unpredictable comedy The Break-Up. After two years together, Gary and Brooke's relationship seems to have taken a comical wrong turn on the way to happily ever after. Now the break-up is on, the lines have been drawn, and their honest feelings for each other are coming out. Get ready for an all-out war of the exes in this fun date movie that's hilarious and heartfelt.
Description of The Break-Up (Widescreen Edition):
The combined star power of Vince Vaughn (Wedding Crashers, Swingers) and Jennifer Aniston (Bruce Almighty, The Good Girl) makes The Break-Up a high-profile romantic comedy. Gary (Vaughn) and Brooke (Aniston) find that their brittle relationship may have reached the breaking point--but neither is willing to give up the condo they co-own. As their fighting grows increasingly bitter, neither is sure if they're fighting to get out of the relationship or to save it. The Break-Up is an odd combination of realistic scenes that capture the harsh yet human ways that lovers can hurt each other, and broad comic scenes with a more farcical edge. Both types of scenes are entertaining on their own terms--the movie is never boring--but they don't fully mesh, and as a result it's hard to engage emotionally with either Gary or Brooke. But the sterling supporting cast--including Jon Favreau (Wimbledon), Cole Hauser (The Cave), Joey Lauren Adams (Chasing Amy), John Michael Higgins (A Mighty Wind), Justin Long (Dodgeball), Jason Bateman (Arrested Development), Vincent D'Onofrio (Happy Accidents), and the ever-delirious Judy Davis (Husbands and Wives)--give every scene they're in a boost of comic energy. An uneven but enjoyable movie that may suffer from viewers having overly high expectations due to Vaughn and Aniston's celebrity. --Bret Fetzer
The Break-Up (Widescreen Edition) Reviews:
The Break-Up 
2008-07-02 - Very good. Movie was good but I thought the ending could have been written better.
Badly written or what? 
2008-06-30 - I was very disappointed with this movie. I felt like i had missed parts of the movie. In fact, i had to watch it 3 times (i worked at the same time) to make sure i didn't miss anything.
The ending was horrid, it could have been funnier during the fighting, it just lacked substance.
Good acting
2008-06-28 - Good acting, but the characters portrayed did little to make me like them or to see why I should spend any amount of time with them. Evidently we're seeing them at a point where all the good aspects of their relationship are gone. The story is such that someone needs to be likable in order for me to be concerned about what happens to them. Relatively few of the actors look like they're enjoying themselves any of the time.
Despite several cinematic values--good acting, good photography, interesting locale--the film delivers its message in a rather heavy-handed way. Also, the title of the film telegraphs its outcome.
All else aside, my problem with the story that I never saw Anniston and Vaughn having a good time with each other, so why should I care about their break-up?
Drama - Not a comedy.
2008-04-08 - I was very surprised by this film. It's the best performance I've seen Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughan ever do in a film on a dramatic level. That being said, I think the first mistake the marketing department and filmmakers made with this movie was call it a "romantic comedy". This is anything but that. This film is a drama with a bit of comedy in it. It's still a drama and probably would've been better received had been sold as that. People were walking in thinking they were seeing a romantic comedy and all they all say was some extremely realistic fight scenes that hit pretty close to home if anyone has been in a love relationship that is combustible.
It's so so 
2008-03-28 - It's worth watching and kind of a funny movie. To be honest I thought it would be much funnier than it was. It's mainly watching the two find new ways to irritate each other, some funny. It's not the greatest movie I've ever seen, but it's not bad. It wasn't very expensive so give it a try you may end up liking it.
