But nothing in Ticket to Paradise makes you miss them when it’s over. In general, it’s good to see these two, just to check in. Both have really, really nice teeth-if you’re shopping for choppers, pin these on your mood board. Clooney is going strong with the silver-fox thing. Roberts still has that gangly, goofball elegance, strutting around on those killer stems. How do they look? Great, and not just great for their age. As delightful as Clooney and Roberts may have been in Ocean’s Eleven and Twelve, as the estranged but electric Danny and Tess, this time they give the impression of running through shtick that’s only presumably adorable.īut back to the big question. No actor is helped by lazy writing, but that doesn’t seem to be the full problem here. Director Ol Parker, known for such senior-citizen larks as Mamma Mia! Here We Go Againand The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, also co-wrote the script, with Daniel Pipski. The problem, really, is that both of these characters are boring and dreadful, and not in a charming way. Blood Red (1989) Roberts gets virtually no dialogue and precious little screen time in this hilariously over-the-top epic about Sicilian immigrants in America starring her brother, Eric, who. “Hopefully not that soon!” says the other. Meanwhile, David and Georgia jab at one another, their putdowns as feeble as Nerf swords. Whatever breezy chemistry they have in real life is nowhere to be seen in the actual movie, though you do get a taste of it in the outtakes that run during the closing credits, if you can wait that long. Playing ex-lovers who loathe each other but who-spoiler alert-just may become lovers again, they seem stiff and wrong, like kids dressed up in ill-fitting Sunday clothes. But if Clooney and Roberts are both wonderful actors, at this point they’re just not that good together, at least not in this setup. In the grand scheme, it’s fine, if fine is all you’re after. Why not put them in a romantic comedy together? And the two are known to be close friends. Though both Clooney and Roberts are “still working,” the euphemism generally used for actors as their careers shift from youthful roles to more mature ones, it’s been years since either has starred in a romantic comedy. Maybe that’s one reason so many people have been looking forward to Ticket to Paradise, in which George Clooney and Julia Roberts play a long-divorced couple forced to spend time together when their daughter ( Kaitlyn Dever) announces her sudden engagement.
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