Break-Up

Year: 2006

Grade: B

Country: USA

Director: Reed

Review

surprisingly real and funny anti-romance starring vince vaughn and jennifer aniston. aniston’s performance is funny and heartfelt and clearly, but sadly, is helped by the audience’s knowledge of her personal life. vaughn adds some emotion to his usual everyman/frat boy comedy and pulls it off fairly well. the emotional ending might seem cheesy out of context, but the film earns its digression from comedy. the earlier scenes are not only funny enough to buttress this tonal shift, they’re also tinged with an undercurrent of their own emotion, and gritty reality, which makes the later scenes seem more natural and less of a departure than they would be in most comedies of this ilk. the supporting cast is solid and quirky.

Watched in theater