![]() Or similarly in a scene early, where Lily’s best friend Wren (a spunky Billie Lourd) is at a bar with David, and she asks him why his marriage to Georgia broke down. "Being loved is not the same as loving", she says. When Lily, for example, in a moment of reverse parenting, confronts Georgia about why she’s considering staying with the young boytoy she’s been seeing. We do, however, get a few shining moments of poignancy where the characters (and the film) are at their least animated and behave like actual grown-ups. It may be the single dumbest thing I've ever heard and I will be using it indefinitely. For one, while making a big, apparently heartfelt emotional speech to profess his love, Gede unironically refers to Lily as a "poem of a person". In its grand emotional culmination, the film just doesn’t manage to pack the emotional punch you’d hope, in terms of Georgia and David finally accepting themselves and their daughter. But Ticket To Paradise refuses to go beyond the surface. George Clooney and Julia Roberts play a divorced ex-couple.īut where the narrative gets shaky is towards its final leg, where (you’d hope) feeling takes precedence over frivolity. (Georgia even as her ex-husband’s number saved on her phone as “Him”). As two bickering, arguing-over-the-armrest ex-spouses forever at each other's throats, the stars share a delightfully childish, catty dynamic. Especially in the humour-heavy first leg of the proceedings, Ticket To Paradise sails off the back of the sparkling, lovably comfortable chemistry between George Clooney and Julia Roberts. I AM GANGSTER TICKETS MOVIEA somewhat self-aware movie that seeks to merely tick the boxes of the by-the-book comfort watch. On the rom-com spectrum of light laughs (Just Go With It, The Proposal, Long Shot) to more meaningful explorations of matters of the heart (500 Days Of Summer, About Time, The Half Of It), Ticket To Paradise certainly belongs to the former. In taking us back to a less complicated time. And there is still, I think, power in that. But it nonetheless delivers on its promise - transporting us to an improbably-charming-good-looking-people world, to make us temporarily forget ours. Ticket To Paradise is hardly the kind of rom-com we’ll remember a year from now. Instead, director Ol Parker (Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again) along with co-writer Daniel Pipski want to mount a frothy, feel-good, surface-level rom-com, at which they’re largely successful. Or even whether crazy, instantaneous, overnight love can truly exist (But more on this later).īut Ticket To Paradise isn’t interested in exploring these more mature, meaningful ideas. The messy intersection between your own romantic failures and parenthood. The idea of traveling to an exotic location (this movie is basically Bali tourism porn) and being removed from your world to gain a new perspective on your life. Ex-spouses living in contempt and regret. And, of course, as they plot and plan to make their daughter see reason, old feelings resurface between the two. So, bickering exes David and Georgia call a temporary truce and set out to the island paradise to dedicate the trip to breaking up Lily and Gede and stopping their daughter from making the same mistake they did. A mere month later, Lily tells her parents she’s getting married. What should’ve been a routine holiday in Bali before embarking on her new life as a lawyer, leads to Lily falling in love with Bali local Gede (a suitably charming Maxime Bouttier). 20 years later, their fresh-out-of-law-school daughter Lily (Kaityln Dever), dares to make the same mistake. 5 years on, real life caught up to their fairy tale, contempt trounced connection and the two had a messy divorce. Hopelessly in love, they got married at a young age and had a daughter. Enter Julia Roberts and George Clooney-starrer Ticket To Paradise which looks to fill the rom-com-shaped hole in our lives and mount the movie-stars-falling-in-love story on the big screen once again.ĭavid (George Clooney) and Georgia (Julia Roberts) were college sweethearts. Forever in search of how reel can add meaning to real. Particularly for those of us who are forever seeking the relatable within the aspirational. For us, at their best, these touching stories of love and laughter can often house heartfelt humanity and gentle life lessons within their glossy packaging. We miss the meet-cutes, the impossibly charming banter, the grand against-all-odds love story. Especially in this age where one is starved of romance on the big screen. We don't ask for much, us rom-com devotees. ![]()
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