(DVD Ticket)
Seeing longtime friends George Clooney and Julia Roberts as David and Georgia Cotton, bickering ex-spouses who have to grudgingly cooperate to try to derail their daughter’s seemingly ill-considered spontaneous choice to marry her Bali-nese boyfriend and settle into an island lifestyle, is 100% of the fun in this otherwise paint-by-the-numbers relationship comedy.
The island scenery is gorgeous,
just like the costumes, and the supporting cast is charmingly quirky (including
Kaitlyn Dever as headstrong Lily Cotton, Maxime Bouttier as her amazingly
stable betrothed, Gede, and Billie Lourd as Lily’s sarcastic best friend Wren),
but this film is all about how David and Georgia get past the differences that
drove them apart, first to address their shared concerns about their daughter,
and later when they begin to realize that the things that originally brought
them together 20+ years ago are still in play.
There’s nothing “new” or “original”
in this one, but it is great fun to see some charismatic actors making the most
of a chance to work together.
( Internet Movie
Database entry for this film )
Recommended
by Scott C.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service
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