Movie Review: The Break-Up

For what it's worth, despite what a bunch of ghey critics seem to have thought, The Break-Up starring Ricky Slade and Rachel was a pretty good movie. My wife and I saw it last weekend.

I can understand why critics didn't like it from a storytelling point of view... it starts off as a VERY funny comedy and ends as a poignant and rather realistic drama. If you are expecting the Wedding Crashers, this movie will lose you 45 minutes in. But I dug it all nonetheless. It wasn't so much a mix of comedy and drama as an interesting transition.

I found the movie extremely poignant. Any guy who has ever experienced a hard break-up or even normal relationship difficulties will find some deep truths here. The dynamics between modern women and old fashioned guys were dead on. The biggest problem that I perceived from the critics is that they couldn't understand why Vaughn's character acted the way he did, as Vaughn played an old-school Chicago GUY with Pride in his polish ancestry. The homo (if he isn't one, he's one nice male ass away from an awakening) from EW, I think his Name was Owen Glieberman (which, despite what you may think I did not make up as an example of the wieneriest name ever) couldn't get the character's motivations because he is much more empathetic toward a different kind of pride.

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Owen waxes his eyebrows to look like Angelina Jolie and likes the kind of "art" displayed in Anniston's character's gallery. His review read like a note from the Foink of a weasely friend of your eighth grade girlfriend who told her that he would treat her better and yearns to do more than just shop with her for purses. He is a pooh-bear. He does not understand masculinity because he has none. He believes that if a guy grabs your wife's butt, a real man diffuses the situation. He drives a Cabriolet.

If the movie is at times frustrating, it is only because the characters don't always do exactly what you want them to do (more like a real relationship than a typical movie). But let me tell you, the funny parts were laugh out loud hilarious. Just be ready to switch gears to serious and you will like this flick.

Now let's start a petition. I want to see Vaughn play a maverick cop, constantly defending his antics and/or interrogation methods to a screaming police captain. Let's get some decent action movies going. Bruce Willis can't be expected to carry the genre alone, people.