The Break-Up

Hate the romantic comedy where boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boys gets on his knees and begs for girl's forgiveness, and boy and girl kiss at the end?
The Break-Up, thankfully, isn't that romantic comedy.
And for a movie that centers on the aftermath of a couple ending their relationship, there's not much romance.
This might not be an easy date movie. The chemistry between Jennifer Anniston and Vince Vaughn is there. The movie is funny most of the times. But it is also unbearably painful.
No one likes to see two good people spend most of their time yelling at each other or doing awfully hurtful things to each other.
Here you laugh to keep from crying because oh boy, Jennifer Anniston and Vince Vaughn declare war, with Jennifer walking around nude as a way of getting Vince back, and Vince acting like a man and pretending he doesn't care.
Yes, it is juvenile, but sometimes, love, or the loss of it, causes us to revert back to children. We forget how to be mature because we don't want to be mature. We're just mad because so and so doesn't want to be with us anymore.
This is what this movie explores in a fairly realistic way. There's no magic moment at the end where all is forgiven because life doesn't work that way.
Sometimes, a relationship is too broken to repair, and this movie is not just about the pain of losing someone you love; it's also about the strength it takes to truly walk away and let go.
Yeah, breaking up is hard to do.