Bruce Willis knows how to do more than just blow stuff up. That's nice, but not really a revelation to anyone who remembers Moonlighting. He knows how to shout, and so does Michelle Pfeiffer. Whoopee.
This movie basically features the two stars fighting, shouting, pouting, and wandering-abouting for what seems like eternity, except when their kids are around, when they present a happy face. Neither character gives us any reason to really care that they're unhappy; they're both self-centered jerks. The plot, such as it is, seems to be heading toward its inexorable conclusion of separation and divorce when bang! out of nowhere, time runs out and the screenwriters say "Okay, Michelle, time for you to get all scrunchy faced!" It's a typical Hollywood malady that people getting paid millions of dollars to write don't know how to write an ending.
Rob Reiner is certainly capable of directing a decent chick flick. The Sure Thing comes to mind. This isn't one. He also isn't above recycling jokes from earlier films. When Reiner bends over and shows his ass to Willis to make some presumably profound point, all I could think of was Artie Fufkin in This is Spinal Tap bending over and asking the band members to kick his ass because of the poor job he had done. That was funny. It's not so funny in this film. Nothing's funny in this film, in fact.
Selling this film as a romantic comedy is a cynical ploy. It's not a romantic tragedy either. In fact, it's not romantic at all. The Big Message of this film seems to be the profound insight that Marriage Is Hard. I didn't need to be screamed at for an hour and a half in a movie theater to learn that.
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