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07/01/06
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The Break-Up (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 182
Fresh: 61
Rotten:121
Average Rating: 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 meet, develop a seemingly contented... [More]
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Bateman
Director: Peyton Reed
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Reviews for The Break-Up
Top Critic
Delivers something worthwhile to those open-minded enough to be able to settle with wild shifts between average satire and grounded pathos
06/29/06
Top Critic
An extended sit-com played for laughs, with little to redeem itself. The two central characters are not the only ones who wish things had been different. I, for one, would have liked to laugh. Or cry. Or at least be entertained.
06/15/06
Top Critic A word of caution to anyone heading off to see The Break-Up with the assumption that it is a romantic comedy: this is not a comedy movie with a serious side -- it is a serious movie with a comedic side.
02/28/08
Stereotypes across the board, puerile one-upmanship games, and an utter failure to explain why, indeed, these two even were together.
08/11/07
"The Break-Up": A brilliantly uncompromising, often harsh but very accurate examination of a relationship unraveling
07/16/07
There's more to love than hate here, but even its high-aimed intentions are thrown askew by the reliance on inconsistent laughs seemingly meant to break the otherwise overriding tension.
07/03/07
Right up there with the best of the revenge genre, and earns praise from this critic for its sophisticated brand of humor which kept me in stitches from start to finish.
06/30/07
Not even the tacked-on ending, hinting at some future sparks between Brooke and Gary, can lighten the sturm und drang in this break-up.
03/01/07
..."The Break Up" may go down with "Fatal Attraction" as the worst "date" movie of all time.
12/13/06
There's nothing broken about The Break-Up, which turns rom-com conventions on their side in free-wheeling fashion, and in doing so colorfully, wittily celebrates what it is about men and women that both attract one another and drives us crazy.
09/22/06
[I]t combines a naked desire to please the audience with a try-anything approach of the kind that made Wedding Crashers such a desperate stab at entertainment.
07/30/06
It's still very much a quick and painless Hollywood production, what slight genius there is in its premise dulled by the sheen of the high production values and its prettier-than-pretty cast.
07/23/06
It's never less than entertaining and the chemistry between our two leads, whatever their personal circumstances, really holds things together.
07/22/06
This is that branch of the romantic comedy known as 'a relationship movie', but generally short on witty lines and amusing incidents.
07/22/06
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