Unsubtle, Dull RomCom
- Ticket to Paradise review by GI
Jeez this is hard work. Clunky and unsubtle romcom that needed a script with finesse and charm, more dialogue, more funny intrigue and a director that could have reined in George Clooney who seems to think that gurning is hilarious. Sorry George it isn't. From the opening scenes you'll work out what's going to happen here. Clooney is a businessman and Julia Roberts his ex (she's an art dealer), married young, had a daughter and now hate one another. So we get the bickering couple competing for their daughter Lily's (Kaitlyn Dever) affection. When she heads off to Bali for a holiday and falls for a young local seaweed farmer whom she wants to marry off go the parents to sabotage the whole thing. You can guess the rest. The beautiful island setting is the best thing about the film because the rest is mediocre cliché. For the most part this is painful and all the jokes have been in other films and so little is original. My advice is give this a miss.
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Paradise Ruined
- Ticket to Paradise review by LA
How can they ruin a gorgeous location like Bali, destroy two usually perfectly appealing performers and shatter the whole concept of the rom com all in one fell swoop....Dismal stuff.
2 out of 2 members found this review helpful.
No great shakes - dull, dull, dull !
- Ticket to Paradise review by CS
Thought this would be good viewing with a cast to match, how wrong could I be.
A load of old dribble as my folks would say. I'm sure 90 minutes could be spent doing/
watching something worthwhile. Pathetic over acting in my opinion. But put some money
towards their retirement fund I suppose ! They must be desperate.
2 out of 2 members found this review helpful.
Average
- Ticket to Paradise review by TH
What can i say. This is a fairly standard rom com hollywood style film. Clooney and Roberts give their usual performances and nothing more. Not really funny and with characters you really won't care about. In the end it kills time being alright.
1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.
So woke
- Ticket to Paradise review by CSF
I must say I wanted to see Roberts and Clooney and a light comedy. Very disappointing. I'm glad I didn't pay the cinema to see that. The British comedy, Love Actually' is hundred times better. I am probably prejudiced but I can't remember an American film that makes me laugh (in the old days perhaps). What's more one can see that everybody is walking on eggs. It is most unlikely that a woman highly educated with a potential interesting career, would leave her friends, family and job for ever to live with a fisherman at the other end of the world. But we have to be soooo politically correct! The slightest gaffe and the film is done!!
1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.
Good fun
- Ticket to Paradise review by cr
Wow there is some snippy reviews on here about this film! What cynics!
One reviewer says its so woke. Of course it is its 2024!
Bali looks stunning George is cool funny and warm and Julia still has that 50 kilowatt smile and film star charisma! These two are the biggest stars in hollywood and they didnt put a step wrong.
I know its not shakespeare and the same tropes appear here but the stars of the film carry it. I think its funny and charming
I am a middle aged man and i loved it.
Recommended!!
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