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(1 - 48) of 48 OFCS Rating: 40% Rotten Page   1   "[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."   Blogcritics.org   Alan Dale D+ "...a gloomy mishmash of ideas that never comes together and is hardly ever fun to watch."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 5/10 "You have no desire to see them either get back together or murder one another - you just want them to leave each other alone. And that's not exactly compelling cinema."   Freeze Dried Movies   Brian Juergens B+ "Break-Up could be viewed as the ultimate romantic comedy; the rare picture that makes one thank heaven for all the good relationships they've managed to luck into."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf 2/5 "you'll be wishing they'd just call it quits"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Barsanti "For all that goes wrong with The Break-Up, the most compelling question it raises has to do with the state of the romantic comedy during a cynical, prepackaged, reality-tv moment."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/5 "Just because performers click romantically off-screen doesn't mean you need to pay good money to watch them in movies that are less interesting than the stories they inspire in supermarket tabloids."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 2/4 "This Break-Up is, unfortunately, hard to do."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth 2/4 "...there's nothing terribly compelling about watching likable stars argue for close to two hours."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 4/5 "An intelligent comedy that shines a truthful light on the fools we make of ourselves during a relationship's last, dying gasps."   eFilmCritic.com   Dawn Taylor 2.5/4 "For all of its comedic nosedives, the film is frank and uncompromising as a study of the final weeks of a relationship."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman B "The surprising thing about it is not how funny it is, as that's to be expected, but how serious it is. Also surprising: It works."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "A decaffeinated and imbalanced War of the Roses where the occasional funny riff from Vaughn attempts to distract us from material which is far more familiar than he believes."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress C- "The Break-Up can't work because it denies its protagonist his humanity, and us the pleasure of watching human characters do at least vaguely human things."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov C- "As Neil Sedaka famously observed, breaking up is hard to do, but it proves even harder to watch in this shrill, sour comedy."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/5 "A sporadically funny comedy about a crisis in the relationship of a smiley couple who seem to think that life should be an endless run of happy days."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2/4 "The Break-Up is too badly fractured to be deemed repairable."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/5 "Star power is an interesting thing, especially when it goes wrong."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 7/10 "Click here to read review"   Kinoblog.com   Jaroslav Vishtaljuk 7/10 "I think it's courageous -- it's something we're not used to seeing from this category of movies these days. A stark honesty is presented here."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 8/10 "...the film still clicked for me because it was set around a realistic situation to which many people can relate and was peppered with laughs and even some genuine emotion."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 3/5 "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."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi 5/10 "Take the funny away from Vaughn, and you've got Return to Paradise, and nobody wants to see that."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 3/5 "full review in Greek"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 3/5 "A little broken, but worth the viewing."   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 4/5 "Oh, did you want to see a Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy? Life isn't always about Hollywood expectations; let's cut Jennifer some slack and enjoy her doing good work."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 2.5/4.0 "... at least it ends on a more positive note than Closer..."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 1/5 "The Break-Up is so depressing, painful and awful to watch that I felt like I had just been through a bitter divorce myself."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr B- "[not] a bad film, merely a mismarketed one...a sad little Valentine from Mars to Venus"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/4 "Brooke and Gary articulate their discontent with considerable precision and occasional verve. It's that they haven't figured out a way to make emotional torment funny, which is the tall order inherent in anti-romantic comedy."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh B "While consistently funny, The Break-Up deals in bitterness and revenge, sometimes in ways that cut closer to the bone than most fluffy romantic comedies."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "This is a deeply conservative movie, not conservative in a political way but conservative in a Ward-and-June-Cleaver kind of way..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "One of the things that is most intriguing about The Break-Up is how it shows the cruelty that people can inflict upon one another as soon as love fades."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan D "The whole movie is a game of one-upsmanship, as each one tries to make the other more miserable. It gets increasingly ugly and painful. Then it ends."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 1.5/4 "A borderline-schizophrenic tone regularly undercuts both the nasty, biting humor and weepy sentimentality."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 4/5 "Tende mais a drama com toques cômicos %u2013 e se você entrar no cinema compreendendo isto, certamente terá muito mais facilidade de se envolver com a história."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 2/5 "Tensions predictably escalate and we're forced to spend the rest of the movie pretending like we care if these two annoying slices of Wonder Bread end up together."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 2.5/5 "It fails because it neglects to create characters we care about."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 2/5 "Stereotypes across the board, puerile one-upmanship games, and an utter failure to explain why, indeed, these two even were together."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves C+ "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."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick C- "When, oh when, will the scorching on-screen chemistry between Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau finally be consummated?"   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux 7/10 "Busts loose with every cool white guy urban cliché from baseball to video games...but the women save the day"   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson 3.5/5 "Most romantic comedies are content to wade completely into the Moronic Fantasy pool, but The Break-Up earns some extra credit for actually mining a topic that "normal Joe & Jane" might actually be able to recognize."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg 3/4 "Every bit as unpleasant as it sounds. But the film's intentions are to examine a separation, and the story achieves its set goals."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell "The Break-Up doesn't know whether it wants to be a facile, enjoyable date movie or an unnerving examination of the dark, pockmarked underbelly of everything we expect out of romantic relationships."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 6/10 "Sour and unsavory, rather than a black comedy, it's a bleak comedy."   Modamag.com   Susan Granger 2/4 "She's identified almost entirely by her haircut at the end--just as the actress who plays her has been for much of her career."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 1/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito  (1 - 48) of 48 OFCS Rating: 40% Rotten Page   1