hyped garbage

Good movie but grossly overrated

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The Ex is a comedy that stars Zach Braff, Amanda Peet and Jason Bateman. The cast also includes Charles Grodin,Mia Farrow,Donal Logue,Amy Poehler,Amy Adams and Fred Armisen.It is directed by Jesse Peretz. Living in Manhattan, Tom is a cook who has a hard time holding down his job. His wife,Sofia, is an attorney. When their first child is born, they agree that she will be a full-time mom and he will work to get a promotion. When Tom gets fired over defending his friend Paco, he takes a job in Ohio working at the ad agency where his father-in-law is the assistant director. Tom is assigned to report to Chip. Chip is a competitive and hard-driving wheelchair-using man who is coincidentally Sofia's ex-boyfriend from high school. Chip still carries a desire for her, so he conspires to make Tom's work life miserable. As Tom's frustrations mount, Chip begins to sway Sofia to his side. Suddenly, Tom finds himself sabotaged by Chip at every step as the nefarious paraplegic schemes to steal Sofia from him and destroy any chance he might have of success at the agency.Delayed, re-titled and presumably at least partially re-shot, Jesse Peretz's troubled office-bound romantic comedy is as half-baked as you'd expect it to be.It should be good as it has a well-known and talented cast from top to bottom.Also,the subject of ex-boyfriends is limitless.Unfortunately,the screenplay is stupid, far-fetched and annoying things to do that it loses credibility quickly.The whole movie is so generic feeling and such a blatant waste of precious smart-comedy resources.I can't advise anyone to see it.

This movie has a ton of cardboard characters- 2 dimensional people who have odd habits as an excuse for interesting dialog and character development. A number of jokes are set up well, but then when it comes time for the punchline scene it's all limp and wet blanket geek aw shucks humor. This also leans towards a very annoying type of comedy where everything bad happens to one central character as if us watching his misery passes for comedic brilliance..it sure as hell does not. The entire first half of the movie is a setup that simply doesn't need to be there- the movie could have started with him joining the ad agency and then gotten funnier instead of starting off with a long tedious buildup and then never really getting funny.There was about 7 minutes of footage worth watching, and the rest is just twiddling your thumbs wondering how all these people got paid to make this stinker.PLOT: A guy trying to impress his wife joins her dad's company but then has tension with a guy that works there that has a crush on his wife. Work sabotage, set up misunderstandings, passive aggressive situations and various other annoying things that can be solved with a simple ass beating take up the majority of this guy's life and this movie.. and it sucks. At the beginning of this movie you will wonder if you are watching Scrubs outtakes.

The Ex is the worst film I have seen in a long time.The element which most bothered me from this movie is that three brilliant actors (Zach Braff,Jason Bateman and the great Amanda Peet) were criminally wasted in a stupid and tedious "comedy".I still do not understand how this movie got the green-light.This is one of the most unfunny comedies I have EVER seen.This movie is so bad that it does not deserve a long analysis.I just have to say it's an enormously tedious and stupid comedy.This piece of repulsive crap should immediately be destroyed.My recommendation would be this : do not even steal this movie.You have been warned.

I know he did not write it, but he did make the movie. Well, him and Jason Bateman made the movie. In this movie, a guy (Zach Braff) is continually getting fired from his job, so he decides to move town and work for his wife's (Amanda Peet) father (Charles Grodin) at his ad agency. Here, he meets an ex of his wife's (Played by Jason Bateman) who try to make his life a living hell. The film is extremely funny and light and a good addition to the cringe type of comedy that Zach Braff has done on Scrubs. The acting performances were enough to keep me watching as they were honestly so dead on portraying what they were meant to. Now, don't get me wrong, this will not win ANY Oscars but anybody with a sense of humour or somebody who is a big fan of Zach Braff (I am both) will LOVE this movie. I rate this film 72% although that is compared to other movies coming out it would usually be about a 65.