If you’re tired of our rainy little country, buy a cinema ticket to Ticket toParadise to be in sunny Bali for an hour and 45 minutes. It’s entertaining towatch Julia Roberts and George Clooney fall in love again, but it’s even morefun to watch them bicker.
You often hear people complain that they don’t make rom-coms like those from25 years ago – one with a charming cast, witty script and iconic location.Ticket to Paradise promises to meet all those requirements and that’s whyit’s the Film Review of the Week here Subway.
Always working formulas
Fortunately, there’s no shortage of comedy in this movie, especially whenDavid (Clooney) and Georgia (Roberts) fire insults at each other. They playdivorced parents who are forced to see each other again because their daughteris head over heels to marry a seaweed farmer in Bali. To prevent theirdaughter Lily (Kaitlyn Dever) from saying yes, they bury the hatchet and tryto stop the wedding together.
It is a classic formula of various clichés. Exes who reunite, enemies who fallin love and have to work together against their will. It works well in Ticketto Paradise. You’re waiting for Clooney and Robers to realize they’ve fallenin love again, and when that moment finally arrives, it doesn’t disappoint.
good friendship
George Clooney and Julia Roberts have been seen together in cinemas before.Money Monster and the Ocean s franchise are just a few examples. They havealso been good friends all these years. Roberts recently told in an interviewwith bazaar that the Clooneys saved her from loneliness on the set of_Ticket to Paradise._ The actor took his family with him, but not Roberts.“This is the longest period I have ever been away from my family. I haven’tbeen alone that long since I was 25.”
Dolphin Fail in Ticket to Paradise
You understand in the first fifteen minutes why the film Ticket to Paradise_is called. You see on the screen the beautiful landscape of an Indonesianisland. At least, that’s the illusion the viewer gets. The film was not shotin Bali at all, but in Australia. Another actress we encounter in the film isBillie Lourd. She plays Wren, daughter Lily’s best friend. The two actressespreviously played together in Olivia Wilde’s _booksmart, a more modern andvery good version of Super Bad. Wren is surprisingly not a superfluouscheerful note, partly thanks to her the dose of jokes is finely divided.
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One of the lesser aspects of the film are the dolphins. Of course, such adazzling scene of the sea cannot be missed, but when you see the CGI-createdanimals, you actually want to look away because of how fake it looks. It isalmost inconceivable that the film has a budget for A-list actors, but not forgood special effects.
Julia Roberts’ long-awaited rom-com return
The director of this movie is Ol Parker. He wrote and directed, among otherthings: Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again , the sequel to the story of the samename in which a daughter tries to bring her parents together on a sunnyisland. The plot is not original, but it is entertaining.
What makes this movie worth watching is the acting of the lead actors. Despitenot appearing in rom-coms for twenty years, Roberts has certainly notforgotten it. Ticket to Paradise isn’t going to be a classic like prettywoman or notting Hill it is a nice addition to her careerere. Thechemistry that the Oscar -Having winners together makes this predictablestory easily manageable.
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It’s a great movie to watch if you want to get away from the real world for awhile. Don’t assume plot twists or wow effects: it’s actually exactly what youexpect. During the credits, the viewer will see all kinds of bloopers passingby. That gives even more the feel good vibe again, because it becomes clearthat the cast is also joking with each other outside of the acting. You areguaranteed to leave the cinema with a smile on your face.
Rating from 5: 2.5
Subway You can read the film review of the week every Wednesday around 6p.m. New titles always appear in Dutch cinemas on Thursdays, such as Ticketto Paradise (sometimes also on Wednesdays). Reporter Erik Jonk chooses one