Zach Braff, Jason Bateman, and Amanda Peet are all stars of highly praised but little watched TV shows: "Scrubs," "Arrested
Development," and "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," respectively. They do their darnedest to make "The Ex" work, and in the process demonstrate that talented actors can turn a so-so script into something mildly worthwhile, but come on, they're not miracle workers. In this uneven, occasionally farcical comedy, Braff and Peet play a married couple, Tom and Sofia, who have a baby and move back to Sofia's Ohio hometown so that Tom can take a job at his father-in-law's advertising agency. Called Sunburst, it's one of those touchy-feely modern offices where they say things like "shift the paradigm," ride Segways, and toss around an invisible "Yes Ball" as a means of inspiring creativity. Sofia's father, Bob (Charles Grodin), doesn't run the place, but he's high enough up the ladder that he could secure a spot for his son-in-law. Bob hands Tom's training duties over to Chip Sanders (Bateman), a smarmy, wheelchair-bound man who dated Sofia back in high school. He's like the son Bob never had, while Tom is like the directionless, financially insolvent son-in-law Bob does have.
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