Review of the Movie "The Break Up"

The other night, when I finished up for Christmas Eve, I decided to rent a movie on pay-per-view. I choose to watch "The Break Up' with Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston. First let me describe the movie. Jennifer Aniston's character started to feel unappreciated by her mate, Vince Vaughn's character. And so they break up. But instead of one of them moving out of their expensive condo, they decide to wait it out to see if the other would move out. So then they end up doing awful stuff to each other so that the other would move out. But really in the end, they both really still loved each other and couldn't get over the break up.

So, I settled down in my chair and for about the next hour and a half (which actually seemed more like a lifetime) and waited patiently through the this movie. When it ended I felt like I had just wasted the last hour and a half. I didn't find it very funny at all. I thought with Vince Vaughn starring that it would be hilarious to watch but it wasn't. There seemed to be so much anger in the movie that it was more painful to watch.

The side characters did add something to the movie though. The characters of Johnny O (played by Jon Favreau) and Lupus Godowsky (played by Cole Hauser) were probably the best ones, I thought. Those were the two that really stood out for me. I didn't think Vincent D'Onofrio's character was all that great either. I think he probably should have stayed with Law and Order.

I guess the thing I couldn't get over that instead of going around acting childish, why didn't one of them just move out and save themselves the pain. I just wasn't able to get real into the movie. There was just something about it that I couldn't really get over. I was really expecting a comedy but it seemed to end more as a drama. The only really funny parts I found was the out takes at the end and some with Vaughn doing his rantings. I always thought he was best when he went on a rant that lasted for minutes that never really end up anywhere. And I didn't think this was Aniston's best performance. I mean she does pretty well as the serious balancing act to Vaughn's comedy. But I think her performance in "She's The One" a few years ago, was her better movie. Really in the end, Aniston and Vaughn seem like they were a good match up and had good chemistry but I don't think this movie really showed that too well. The movie just seemed more angry than funny.