From moment to moment we find ourselves siding with each one. They're both selfish idiots, which makes the story so much better, but they're still believable and very well acted. And, unlike most of these kinds of movies and apart from my expectations, we actually end up caring about the characters, despite their overabundance of flaws. It's not just funny it's also very real and poignant, especially considering the fact that most of us know someone who's had a really tough divorce and it's easy to see how things could go just as bad as they do in War of the Roses. Instead of yawning, I was wide sitting wide-eyed on the edge of my seat. Sure, some of the stunts that the characters pull reach the same levels of ridiculousness as in those other films that I didn't like, but here we get the impression that it's done for the sake of the story, rather than for just another cheap laugh. Things unfold naturally and totally believably. It tells the story in a different way than others of its kind. War of the Roses was something else entirely, and despite my efforts, I couldn't help but enjoying it. I mean, I did enjoy Matilda, but that was a family movie that I watched as a kid. I normally don't even care for Danny DeVito as a director, probably due to the fact that he made the awful Duplex, which I mentioned earlier. That wasn't supposed to happen, but it did, and I was pleasantly surprised.
Almost immediately, I got drawn into the story. These sorts of films aren't typically my cup of tea, but it wasn't my turn to pick the movie, so I just sat back and watched. It reminds me of dumb comedy films like Duplex-which pits neighbor against neighbor-and Are We There Yet?, in which Ice Cube goes up against his new girlfriend's mischievous kids. It's exactly the sort of film I don't normally enjoy, where two equally detestable parties go back and forth trying to one up each other with ridiculous shenanigans that are rarely funny and never make up for the ninety minutes of wasted time. But neither of them wants to give up their house, and both remain living in it, getting on each other's nerves as they deliberately and maliciously annoy and attack each other, each in an attempt to get the other to give up and leave. The premise is simple enough: a moderately wealthy couple-whose last name is Rose-decides to get divorced after many years of marriage.
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