Another story confirming that Vaughniston is still happening …bummer. On the other hand I rented The Breakup last night and discovered to my surprise that it plays just as spritzy the second time (since seeing it last May), and maybe even better than that.
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In my initial review I said “there are no laughs after the first third of The Break-up, and there’s no bouncy comic energy or pacing in any of it…but it’s not intended to deliver this stuff. It’s a decently made, reasonably mature, well-acted relation- ship drama with humorous punctuation from time to time (i.e., mostly in the early portions).”
I still didn’t “laugh” when I saw the DVD last night, but it was consistently amusing (again), well acted and never dull. Here’s a less funny recording of the first big argu- ment scene, and here’s the first post-breakup argument, which is actually funny here and there.
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