Really Surprised!

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Really bad. So many bad reviews (1's) and one or two 10's. That would be up to you to decide??

We have a long way to go before the 'Most Unfunny Comedy' of the year can be awarded but The Breaker Upperers (2018) will be a contender. It has been a long while since this reviewer found a film with no redeeming features and it is my duty to explain.The story's central premise is simple and would have had high comedic potential, had it been done well. Two hapless and loveless women set up as professional agents who break up unsatisfactory relationships for clients unable to do so themselves. The senior partner Jen (Jackie van Beek) is the organiser and Mel (Madeleine Sami) is a 30-something scatterbrain. They have a flexible repertoire of scams to accommodate all types of scenarios, and their clients have in common a spineless reluctance to take responsibility for ending a relationship. Corny scenarios like staged kidnappings or a doorstep chorus of "Cherie don't want to be with you no more, I'm sorry Jeff its over" are meant to be terminal. After witnessing several such clumsy terminations, the film's novelty value quickly wears off.To keep the narrative alive there are twin subplots of a needy female client becoming dependent on Jan and Mel's sexual tryst with an inchoate 17-year old male client. A recurring sketch of the duo impersonating police officers then being mistaken for female strippers is one of the film's many low points. In a scene that epitomises the film, Mel's young boyfriend is on the back seat of a car with his mother and the now-pregnant Mel in the front when he blurts out "I just realised I've been in both you women's vaginas". Even in the Trump era, this is not OK.In terms of acting performances, both Jan and Mel excel as rough-around-the edge characters who attract neither empathy or emotional engagement. The entire cast mangles the Kiwi accent in the forlorn hope that this adds humour. With a storyline that progressively thins out, we are left with puerile gags and weak dialogue that struggles to sustain the film for 90 minutes.Intelligent humour pushes boundaries in ways that can make us look at ourselves with new insight. New Zealand comedy often attracts adjectives like brave, quirky and transgressive, terms that do not apply this time. Perhaps it's a culturally-specific thing, but The Breaker Upperers does not translate easily from local Kiwi cinema to mature global markets.

This movie was vulgar and just plain stupid. I sat fir an hour thinking it might pick up but no it got steadily worse.A complete waste of time and money .

I loved this movie and anyone that is saying it is immature and not kiwi humor has obviously hid under a rock and never come out since the early 80s because it is defiantly a bulls eye with how we see things and what makes NZers laugh these days, great cast and great crew behind the scenes. Stink that the User review that is coming up on here is for a comedy and that person does not have a kiwi sense of humor so is not fit to review this movie. Watch it and see what I mean.