We have a tragedy on our hands.
Heaven ticket It seems to have it all: a brilliant location, a lightning story, and above all, two of the greatest movie stars of all time. With Julia Roberts and George Clooney at the helm, Heaven ticket It was destined to be an all-encompassing cruise full of happy times. Add the output from Mama Mia! here we go againtwo of Box Mart Ladies, the hunk of Emily in Paris-Can’t you love him?
this movie. This movie isn’t likeable in almost any way, unfortunately. I didn’t hope so Heaven ticket to be eleventh ocean-Meets-When Harry Met Sally, but after watching his charming trailer over and over again, I expected to have some fun. Maybe it will be a bit like marry me-Meets-My dear friend’s wedding. I can have a good time, even with an overload. Unfortunately, Heaven ticket Really does not deliver.
This is because Heaven ticket fails to be romantic or comic. Part of the blame lies in how fragile the romantic ground is. Don’t Be Fooled: Romance Plot Heaven ticket He does not follow his parents Georgia (Roberts) and David (Cloney) divorced. Instead, it depends on their daughter Lily (Caitlin Dever), who plans to marry decrepit seaweed farmer Jedi (Maxim Potter) just a month after they meet on her trip to the wonderful Indonesian island. Their romantic arc is thrown together like cliffs. Lily and Jedi meet, he shows her his seaweed farm, and suddenly, they are engaged. Her parents are clearly unhappy about it, so they jump on a plane to Bali in the hope of stopping it. amazing! Now, quick, back to George Clooney and Julia Roberts!
Because, yes, the reason Heaven’s ticket is here! To see Julia Roberts and George Clooney squabbling on a plane (and still holding hands while shaken by the turmoil). We’re all ready to enjoy the sweet relief they pull together to finish off their daughter’s wedding. The problem is, there’s almost nothing George and Julia work with here. Georgia is an art dealer who gave up her whole life to be with David, the architect who promised to bring her a home full of life. When this house literally burned down, they broke up. After more than a decade, they hate each other. They can’t even be in the same room together.
Now that their daughter wants to throw in the towel at her future legal career for a man she barely knows, Georgia and David have something to agree on. They both worry that she’s making the same mistake he did – marrying someone too quickly, before seeing them at their worst. And they are right: it is! After a week’s vacation, Lily wants to move to a foreign country and marry a man she just met. This is by no means logical. Sure, I sound like I’m grumpy, but when it comes to romantic comedies, it’s only fun to suspend disbelief if it’s fun and imaginative enough. Heaven ticket He is both of them.
Worst of all is that Lily and Jedi don’t have romantic chemistry. Both Dever and Bouttier are cute enough on their own — the former just showed off their rom-com pieces last week at Hulu Rosalyn—But their actual relationship comes on too quickly to be convincing at all. The two rarely get alone on screen time together to cast a spell on the audience. what or what Heaven ticket He does not understand that we Wants To see Lily and Gede together and in love – sure, Clooney and Roberts are great, but they need a good enough pass to get the ball rolling. without a solid rom-com floor, Heaven ticket hollow rings;
Not only does she have zero chemistry with her fiancé, but Lily also has never proven to be very connected to her parents either. Most of the time they spend together is limited to the complicity of the parents against the daughter. Arna Caitlin Dever and Julia Roberts spend mother-daughter time at the beach! Even towards the end of the movie, when everyone kisses and makes up (not really spoiled!), we don’t get much real family love. Lily invites her father to the dance floor after the wedding, but we don’t actually see them get there. Show us Daddy’s moves! Give us a father and daughter dance! There is only an ounce of time devoted to Lily’s relationship with her parents, which makes the entire premise of the movie fall flat.
Any joys shown only appear in the film’s most random corners. When Emily in Paris Star Lucas Bravo appeared as Georgia Bull’s teddy bear friend, and the entire stage was gasping with glee. His comedic timing shocked me. It’s a complete treasure on Netflix More must be used. Georgia and David’s companion Beth Ann (Genevive Lyons), and maid of honor Wren (Billy Lord) are also worth shouting about, even if Wren’s entire character is an alcoholic. And for some reason, there is a frequent muzzle about wild animal accidents Heaven ticketwhich happens to be a slapstick blessing.
Still, when Heaven ticket It’s bad, it’s really bad. The movie is already received a backlash For his event in “Bali”, while all filming took place in Australia. This tension appears when the family visits the damned temples, haggles in the city center, or attends traditional ceremonies in a stunning coastal setting – everything is fake. Maybe one can get past this then Heaven ticket It was just a vacation story; Not. It’s a strange story, as a young white American woman decides to settle in a faraway land after being stirred up by the quiet life of the indigenous people.
Although the film attempts to show some respect for the people of Bali, it ultimately fails when it eventually spots wealthy white Americans who quickly deal with foreigners and relocate to their country, based only on a perfect idea of it. Again, it’s all fun and games, but Heaven ticket It’s not all that fun to begin with.
My whole heart wants to say that George and Julia’s chemistry holds the whole movie together and at least makes it worth watching. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Most of our runtime depends on their relentless arguments, as if we want to see them pick up on each other for a full hour before they make peace. When Georgia and David finally put their differences aside for the sake of their daughter, Heaven ticket It gives a glimpse of the alluring brilliance that could have been. A neon-lit beer game between older and younger couples is filled with the joy of an escape. What a joy it is to watch Julia Roberts, an unusual hairstyle, laugh at George Clooney, in a sweaty mess, dancing drunk in his sport until the hangover starts to arrive.
But there is not enough charisma in the world to run the boring scenario Heaven ticket. There is no nostalgia, an experienced athlete accessory of Julia Roberts My dear friend’s weddingAnd there is no wonderful magic Notting Hill. Roberts and Clooney’s chemistry recreates who they were eleventh oceanBut without the actual excitement or bets, why are we watching? If we want to see George and Julia, our old pals, walking around, we can just watch videos from the press tour of this movie. As much as I wanted to add Heaven ticket to my long rom-com list to watch over and over, unfortunately I’ll have to turn to Those YouTube promotions And the eleventh ocean While that. what a shame.
Heaven ticket It premieres in theaters on October 21.
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