Pushed to the breaking-point after their latest, "why can't you do this one little thing for me?" argument, art dealer Brooke calls it quits with her boyfriend, Gary, who hosts bus tours of Chicago. What follows is a series of remedies, war tactics, overtures and underminings suggested by the former couple's friends, confidantes and the occasional total stranger. When neither ex is willing to move out of the condo they used to share, the only solution is to continue living as hostile roommates until somebody caves. But somewhere between protesting the pool table in the living room, the dirty clothes stacked in the kitchen cupboards and the sports played at sleep-killing volume in the middle of the night, Brooke begins to realize that what she may be really fighting for isn't so much the place but the person.

I am sure that nowhere in Hollywood are they sitting here and reading my reviews and saying hey he may just be right about that but never the less I am going to impart some wisdom on the studios why the Break-Up didn’t work and why most people who see it won’t like it, men or women. It’s simple you can’t have the best of both worlds, you can’t have your characters hating and despising each other ready to go to battle at the slightest whim and at the same time have them pining for each other and still wanting to be together. Sorry, Hollywood exec’s it just doesn’t work, it will never work and all it will do is leave your audiences with that uneasy and unsatisfied feeling when the movie ends which may lead to them hating your movie. You never want your audience to feel at unease during a romantic comedy. You never want your funniest moments to be in your trailer, where are you going to go during the movie except for down if they have already seen the funniest part of your film. You can’t have your cake and eat it too because if your undecided and your characters are undecided your audience won’t be, they will be very decisive in disliking your movie, I know I was.

Women out there for the most part want romance, they will find a movie about battling ex’s funny too but if you keep hinting at the characters getting back together and they don’t, they will hate you. War of the Roses worked because nowhere an I mean nowhere were they indecisive about the characters wanting to get back together, they hatred was obvious and that’s what made it funny. I am sure all of us has had a relationship end with that hatred and you don’t go from hating and trying to destroy each other to wanting each other in the blink of an eye, life doesn’t work that way and a smart studio exec would realize that. The movie was a waste of a funny premise and in the end was a waste of time.

Lately I have been coming to appreciate Jennifer Aniston more and more as actress because she does have that rare comedic timing and that likeability that you want to see in your leading ladies, I just don’t think she has learned yet when to turn down bad parts and movies and wait for the good ones. Then there is Vince Vaughn, sorry Vince you aren’t a leading man, your are the comedic sidekick and you need to remember this. You are more to blame for the movie failing than Jennifer because it is you that does not ever seem to have any chemistry with her. I could believe that Jennifer for some unfathomable reason was once in love with Vince but never the other way around. You can’t have a romance when its hard to believe one of the characters never felt anything romantic about the other. Another case of bad casting, leave Vince to do movies like Wedding Crashers and Dodgeball and next time give Jennifer someone she can work with.

Grade: D+