It's funny, lighthearted and feel-good, with just enough of a plot to keep it rolling and a sweet, if unlikely, ending. and trying to kill you", the film really does feel like an escape into paradise. When Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) comes on, they're not David and Georgia anymore - they're George and Julia busting out the "embarrassing" dance moves we've all seen from our parents on the dance floor at a wedding.įilmed in Australia's Whitsunday Islands, Brisbane and the Gold Coast, where according to Roberts, "everything's huge. One scene in particular comes to mind - playing beer pong in a Bali bar with their daughter and her fiance. Watching the movie, you get the sense that they're not really acting in some scenes. Academy Award winners George Clooney and Julia Roberts team up as exes who find themselves on a shared mission: to stop their lovestruck daughter from. "It was conceived for them and written for them, and I begged them to do it." The film's writer and producer Ol Parker said it wouldn't have been made without them.
"For us it's always been fairly easy," Clooney said. He is un peu funny.The pair, who met on Ocean's 11 in 2001, have had natural on-screen chemistry ever since - partly due to a shared sense of humour. Lourd, a fantastic actress, is much funnier than the shoddy material she’s been handed.Īnd Lucas Bravo, who plays the sexy chef on “Emily In Paris,” is Georgia’s bumbling French pilot boy toy. Wren isn’t wild enough, however, and her jokes drip, drip, drip out of the faucet. There are two passable ploys to get giggles.īillie Lourd plays Wren, Lily’s hot mess best friend who travels with her to Bali. Lucas Bravo (right) plays Georgia’s French pilot boyfriend. They are pancake-flat characters - probably since the director is afraid to give them too much screen time because of Roberts and Clooney’s paychecks - and they don’t grab our hearts. That’s because the young lovers aren’t believably in love. Roberts, actually, has fought to break up a marriage before, much more successfully, in 1997’s “My Best Friend’s Wedding.” That comedy made us adore her character Jules and we wanted her to defeat Cameron Diaz’s ditzy Kimmy. Mom and dad could commit horrible acts if they make us laugh, like Robert De Niro did to Ben Stiller with his wicked CIA machinations in “Meet the Parents.” But Georgia and David are, to put it simply, joyless jackasses. The older, divorced couple is too mean and their antics are not funny enough. Lily (Kaitlyn Dever) and Gede (Maxime Bouttier) fall in love in Bali while Lily is on vacation. Weirdly for this wishy-washy star vehicle, though, nobody ends up being particularly likable. But Lily and Gede are unfailingly sweet, young and optimistic, and we’re not itching for them to break up either. Many parents would feel skittish about that. David and Georgia understandably feel that their daughter is jumping into a marriage - and faraway new country - too quickly.
Her parents may loathe each other, but they are determined to not let Lily make the same mistake they did.ĭirector and co-writer Ol Parker’s film tries too hard to balance our sympathy for both couples. Lily has decided to give up her career to marry a handsome local seaweed farmer named Gede (Maxime Bouttier). Georgia and David are a long-divorced couple who team up to stop Lily’s (Kaitlyn Dever) nuptials because she met her husband-to-be just 37 days earlier during a vacation in Bali, while celebrating graduation from law school. George Clooney and Julia Roberts play a bickering divorced couple who team up to stop their daughter’s marriage in “Ticket to Paradise.” Vince Vali The rest of this tropical island hop is rough waters.
That’s the extent of our enjoyment, though. Ross and Erin Brockovich together does indeed summon those warm and fuzzy memories of Madonna’s “Ray of Light” and prepping for Y2K. These cruel schemers, who mock Balinese culture and traditions the entire movie, are supposed to be a nostalgic throwback to beloved 1990s rom-coms. Then, in the next scene, her mother, Georgia (Roberts), pickpockets the wedding rings from the ring bearer to sabotage the ceremony and throws them in her purse. In the cringey first 20 minutes of the movie, for example, a father named David (Clooney) advises his daughter’s Balinese fiancé not to have kids with her because the bride’s ambitions will force her to abandon her family. Rated PG-13 (some strong language and brief suggestive material).
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