The Story of Us

Uplifting, romantic and funny, The Story of Us captures the shades of grey within a relationship. Bruce Willis is a terrific surprise, and quite different from his action roles. The Venice scenes (beautiful Venice! ... Full Review

The Story of Us is an insightful and delightful romantic comedy that captures all those shades of gray. He talks about Bruce Willis as an extraordinary actor in terms of reality, simplicity and tremendous breadth, and believes that Michelle Pfeiffer is the most beautiful actress to have graced the screen. ... Full Review

Don't bother to thank Rob Reiner for his entry into the discussion, the insipid and smug The Story of Us . The Story of Us asks us to endure the incessant bitching of Ben and Katie, then to accept their superficial making-up scene at the end, and accents it all with borderline offensive scenes featuring their rich, self-absorbed friends (Reiner, a shrill Rita Wilson, Paul Reiser) who love to co-titillate with tits-and-ass references. ... Full Review

And once Katie and Ben's parents (Betty White & Red Buttons and Jayne Meadows & Tom Poston) materialize in bed with Pfeiffer and Willis, all bets are off that "North" is the worst movie Reiner's made. The film threatens to drown in deathly cute excesses - too many long faces, too many too-big smiles, too many over-fought fights, too many cheap reconciliations - and none of the resonant insight to justify any of it. ... Full Review

his freak-out scene in a restaurant is undeniably solid.....no great actor....this being America, the movie will end happily.....the film's greatest strength.... ... Full Review

Too often, The Story of Us disappoints through its lack of ambition, usually aiming no higher than sitcom schmaltz, with the usual Heimlich manoeuvres:....The charm and game performances of the lead actors keep The Story of Us tolerable, with Willis, for the most part, acting uncharacteristically low-key..... ... Full Review

The movie's most inexcusable failing is that, despite all the flashbacks, we never get a sense of what this relationship was like when it worked. But that, plus a stray observation on how couples communicate in bed by touching feet, is all the film has to recommend it. ... Full Review

The movie's most inexcusable failing is....Worse, the movie doesn't seem even to have a sense of what a good relationship might be like.....Reiner compounds dishonest writing with dishonest direction.....NEW FLICKS ROUNDUP This is a problem in a film called ``The Story of Us..... ... Full Review

The movie's most inexcusable failing is....Pfeiffer and Willis are convincingly married in those moments.....Worse, the movie doesn't seem even to have a sense of what a good relationship might be like.....Reiner compounds dishonest writing with dishonest direction.....There is a desperate phoniness about director Rob Reiner's ``The Story of Us..... ... Full Review

A wannabe sensitive film that's scared of cutting too deeply, "The Story of Us" doesn't want to be real enough to jeopardize its homogenized humor. The Story of Us," which stars Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer as the troubled Jordans, wants to be an honest look at the problems that can beset a modern marriage, and be funny at the same time, but it doesn't have the skills or the temperament to pull all that off. ... Full Review