{"id":12415,"date":"2007-05-29T23:18:34","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T03:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=12415"},"modified":"2007-05-29T23:18:34","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T03:18:34","slug":"the-break-up-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/29\/the-break-up-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Break-Up (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"the-break-up-550x309\"<\/a>I\u2019m one who personally doesn\u2019t enjoy the quick talking shtick that has basically made Vince Vaughn\u2019s career. Not only is it a rather tiresome shtick, but hearing him talking like he\u2019s wired on coke is often rather mind-numbing. So you pair up Vaughn\u2019s coke head comedy, with Jennifer Aniston\u2019s perpetually bland acting, and you have this vehicle that hopes to create a neo-\u201cOdd Couple\u201d vibe that never works. Romance comedies hardly ever work these days, and it\u2019s because we have to care about relationships between two obnoxious characters with no connection to the audience. How can I give a shit about two people like this?<\/p>\n

A bad sign is always beginning the film on a montage of scenes that are supposed to speedily establish what good writing can. These two people are in love, big deal. But the pictures say they\u2019re in love, so automatically we have to care about these people. How can you invest emotionally in characters we\u2019re only glimpsing through pictures? We can\u2019t. So, then, watching them argue, and battle becomes a shallow affair. \u201cThe Break Up\u201d is a painfully unfunny, and painfully stupid \u201ccomedy\u201d about two utterly obnoxious folks that, in reality, shouldn\u2019t even be alive. And wouldn\u2019t you know it? \u201cThe Break Up\u201d is another in a very excruciating series of pop culture\u2019s series: \u201cWoman rule, men are useless,\u201d in which our character Gary is a rather immature lump who really has no chance of holding a relationship.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s dumb, idiotic, obnoxious, and child-like, while his girlfriend, played by Aniston, is supposed to be responsible, devoted to her work, and just puts up with him. We\u2019re supposed to think the two are just mismatched, but really this film is more about the dumb guy fighting with his perfect wife. \u201cThe Break Up\u201d transforms from an incredibly unfunny comedy to a ridiculous melodrama that relies on the endless diatribes between these two idiots, and their endless fighting. Anyone hoping for an actual comedy here will be disappointed, because we\u2019re treated to non-stop arguing for the duration. \u201cThe Break Up\u201d is anxious to be a modern “Annie Hall,” but really it is just a tedious, glum, and god awful affair. It was only under two hours and it felt like an eternity. It\u2019s a god awful dramedy about two truly despicable folks and their endlessly stupid arguing that never works, even if it were to have actual competent actors leading the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m one who personally doesn\u2019t enjoy the quick talking shtick that has basically made Vince Vaughn\u2019s career. Not only is it a rather tiresome shtick, but hearing him talking like he\u2019s wired on coke is often rather mind-numbing. So you pair up Vaughn\u2019s coke head comedy, with Jennifer Aniston\u2019s perpetually bland acting, and you have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[120,219,302,874],"class_list":["post-12415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-b","tag-comedy","tag-drama","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}