Why you should watch "The Ex", previously named "Fast Track"? It's only originality comes from the disabled guy played by Jason Bateman and he is the villain of this comedy and the major responsible for the funny scenes of this movie. Besides that it's very forgettable.
Tom (Zach Braff) is the good guy, hard working, and living with his wife Sofia (Amanda Peet) until the day he's fired, moves to another town, lives in a new house close to Sofia's parents (Charles Grodin and Mia Farrow) and his a father now. Besides these usual up and down very showed in another comedies comes the fact that Tom gets a new job but he works with Chip (Bateman), a sarcastic and evil guy stuck in a wheelchair. Chip starts to act mean to Tom just because he's married with Sofia (she and Chip were cheerleaders in high school, great joke by the way). The good guy follows the strange and dark game played by Chip and also tries to harm Chip's life too. End of the story and all you can do is cheer for one of them.
This movie is funny but it's almost difficult to laugh to the politically incorrect theme. Maybe the writers didn't know how to improve more interesting things or some punchlines on the screen wasn't so funny as the ones written on paper. For instance the ones delivered by Charles Grodin. I mean, this film marks his return on the big screen after a strange disappearance of 12 years. This good actor was incredibly funny in films like "Midnight Run" and "Lonely Guy", and he's the only one who could really make a good pair with the dog "Beethoven" (he was on the 2 first films of the series). And here in "The Ex" he returns a lot older, unfunny and unlikeable with some very, very bad jokes, not a single joke was good (the one with the whales in his computer was boring to death). Or perhaps he lost his talent all these years away from movies? We'll never know.
While Zach Braff plays nice resembling the same character he plays on "Scrubs" (the pretty nice guy who everybody loves); and Grodin and Farrow were wasted; Bateman outstands with the most funniest villain ever made in a comedy film.
Decent comedy but not enough for a giant laugh! 7/10
Tom (Zach Braff) is the good guy, hard working, and living with his wife Sofia (Amanda Peet) until the day he's fired, moves to another town, lives in a new house close to Sofia's parents (Charles Grodin and Mia Farrow) and his a father now. Besides these usual up and down very showed in another comedies comes the fact that Tom gets a new job but he works with Chip (Bateman), a sarcastic and evil guy stuck in a wheelchair. Chip starts to act mean to Tom just because he's married with Sofia (she and Chip were cheerleaders in high school, great joke by the way). The good guy follows the strange and dark game played by Chip and also tries to harm Chip's life too. End of the story and all you can do is cheer for one of them.
This movie is funny but it's almost difficult to laugh to the politically incorrect theme. Maybe the writers didn't know how to improve more interesting things or some punchlines on the screen wasn't so funny as the ones written on paper. For instance the ones delivered by Charles Grodin. I mean, this film marks his return on the big screen after a strange disappearance of 12 years. This good actor was incredibly funny in films like "Midnight Run" and "Lonely Guy", and he's the only one who could really make a good pair with the dog "Beethoven" (he was on the 2 first films of the series). And here in "The Ex" he returns a lot older, unfunny and unlikeable with some very, very bad jokes, not a single joke was good (the one with the whales in his computer was boring to death). Or perhaps he lost his talent all these years away from movies? We'll never know.
While Zach Braff plays nice resembling the same character he plays on "Scrubs" (the pretty nice guy who everybody loves); and Grodin and Farrow were wasted; Bateman outstands with the most funniest villain ever made in a comedy film.
Decent comedy but not enough for a giant laugh! 7/10