"Anti-Romantic"...And UN-Funny?!?!

One of our more active members forwarded me the following this morning (opening day for BREAK-UP). It's a compilation of Berry Nasty Quotes from the reviews, collected by Michael Slezak of Entertainment Weakly (with Hyper-Links to each complete review):

"Surfing the net this morning to find the best of the (almost uniformly negative) review headlines for the new Vince Vaughn-Jennifer Aniston vehicle The Break-Up, I found myself getting distracted by the brutal reviews themselves. Some of critics' barbs were so scathing, in fact, that I couldn't keep them to myself. Read on:

The San Fransisco Chronicle's Mick LaSalle: ''Imagine watching Bergman's Scenes From a Marriage, except without good scenes, without a marriage (legal or spiritual) and without people worthy of anybody's attention, even each other's. Now imagine something even worse.''

The Indianapolis Star's Christopher Lloyd: ''Watching The Break-Up is like riding in a car when the driver's asleep at the wheel, and you're slowly drifting off the straightaway and into the brambles. You can see what's wrong, but you're powerless to do anything but tighten your seat belt, grit your teeth and hope the driver wakes up in time.'' 

The New York Post's Lou Lumenick: ''The must-miss The Break-Up arrives more or less simultaneously with the child of Brangelina. Will Jennifer Aniston's humiliations never end?''

The A.V. Club's Keith Phipps: ''It's like watching the 'we were on a break' episode of Friends stretched to feature length, and without the blessed relief of commercial breaks or the promise of Seinfeld around the corner."

L.A. Weekly's Joe Donnelly: ''Think The War of the Roses lite -- sans the emotional investment of watching a real partnership disintegrate into hell. Speaking of hell, Ann-Margret as Brooke’s mother, Judy Davis as her gallerist boss and Vincent D’Onofrio as Gary’s brother all look like they stepped into the seventh layer during their wasted cameos. I hope Ann-Margret works again; I don’t want to remember her this way.''

The Boston Globe's Ty Burr: ''As for Aniston, she's as likable as ever, but her dramatic range has never looked narrower, and if there's any heat to her real-life relationship with Vaughn, it evaporated before it reached the camera. Can Aniston play anything but Rachel 2.0? Does she even want to? That trapped look in Brooke's eye isn't a character in a bind; it's an actress in a rut.''

After countless months of are-they-or-aren't-they speculation about the off-screen relationship between the film's stars, I was kind of excited to check out their on-screen chemistry, but this critical savaging has me wondering if The Break-Up is doomed to the same fate as other star-couple bombs like Vanilla Sky and Proof of Life. Whatever the film's fate, though, at least Vaughn can take comfort in a new site, Do You Speak Vince Vaughnese?, that compiles the best of his film quotes. Come to think of it: This might be a funnier (and cheaper) alternative to his latest movie offering..."

First off, HeadRAZZBerry, I would like to thank you for at least seeing that this movie looks like a possible Razzie contender. Of course, even if this movie is bad, there have been reviews that Vince Vaughn is good, and that the only supporting cast member who also faired well was Jon Favreau, like Sanndman said.

You know it has to bad by just reading the reviews in Rotten Tomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10005561-break_up/), because even the supposed "Fresh" reviews it got (Sitting at 32% as we speak) are less than enthusiastic, and on some of them I think they just clicked the "Fresh" button by mistake when they meant to click "Rotten".

NOTE TO HeadRAZZY: I think you've got a "for sure" Worst On Screen Couple for 2006 (and off screen as well!)  

With the movie already out on DVD, the film made less than I expected. It just reached up to $118 Million at the U.S. B.O. but not a lot Worldwide. I guess not a lot of audiences enjoyed the romance of Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston.

Furthermore, there have been so many comedians that are acting like they still live with their parents. Yeah, I still am, but I can actually do everything to take care of myself. I think maybe these people of Hollywood should try and get themselves together. Oh, and I brought over the same picture from the two other forums to describe all of that.

Jenifer Aniston was horrific. Who did she win the People's choice awar- OOPS! I forgot it was the people's choice awards. They're even more lambasted than the Goldon Globs!

Originally posted by Vits They did good at creating a movie with the God-awful "Couples fighting" humour,and then making it real.In the real world,couples can argue all the time with no problem,but they fight once in a while.Fighting all the time,like in every single sitcom,is unreal. The problem is that they didn't show that until the end,when we were already used to that,so it felt like a slap in the face.