Stephanie Zacharek (szacharek): 'Ticket to Paradise,' the new rom-com starring Julia Roberts and George Clooney, can't quite sail through on the charm of its actors alone. Read the review here:
Ticket to Paradiseis all you’re after. But if Clooney and Roberts are both wonderful actors, at this point they’re just not that good together, at least not in this setup. Playing ex-lovers who loathe each other but who—spoiler alert—just may become lovers again, they seem stiff and wrong, like kids dressed up in ill-fitting Sunday clothes.
Complications pile up: Gede introduces Georgia and David to the local moonshine, on which they get hilariously drunk. After executing a number of embarrassing ‘90s dance moves in public, they pass out in bed together. Just as they’re waking up with dual ha-ha hangovers, Georgia’s younger boyfriend, Rob , a handsome French commercial pilot, shows up outside her hotel room to surprise her. One of the movie’s running gags is that Rob bores Georgia with his nonstop adoration.
Meanwhile, David and Georgia jab at one another, their putdowns as feeble as Nerf swords. “See you again—never!” one says. “Hopefully not that soon!” says the other. The problem, really, is that both of these characters are boring and dreadful, and not in a charming way. Director Ol Parker, known for such senior-citizen larks asalso co-wrote the script, with Daniel Pipski. No actor is helped by lazy writing, but that doesn’t seem to be the full problem here.
But back to the big question. How do they look? Great, and not just great for their age. Roberts still has that gangly, goofball elegance, strutting around on those killer stems. Clooney is going strong with the silver-fox thing. Both have really, really nice teeth—if you’re shopping for choppers, pin these on your mood board. In general, it’s good to see these two, just to check in.
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