Superstars Julia Roberts and George Clooney reunite in what should be the romantic comedy of the year.
In
Ticket to Paradise,
they camp separated parents who find themselves in a disaster in Bali to dissuade their daughter (Kaitlyn Dever) from hastily marrying the young man who has turned her head.
But the fifties are perhaps not immune to a flashback.
“Badly written, shot in screen saver colours,
Ticket to Paradise
has everything you think of a bad lambda film, except for its luxurious cast”
, judge
Les Echos without appeal.
Comments corroborated by
Le Parisien:
“Ol Parker signs a feature film giving pride of place to the cutesy (...).
Intrigue multiplying the clichés, predictable twists, situations and dialogues sweet, not to say completely nunuches, total absence of staging: his "com rom" smells of dust, even if it takes place in the open air of the beaches.
Despite everything, our colleagues show a certain leniency.
"On a plot sewn with white thread, in a postcard setting, the
Julia Roberts tandem
-George Clooney is still sparking.
The charm operates at times and the film turns out to be pleasant… but without surprise,”
writes our colleague Olivier Delcroix from
Le Figaro
.
They believe that the film is still worth seeing, praising the acting tandem.
Like Le
Monde
, for which
“despite the weaknesses of the scenario and the facilities it sometimes abuses
(…) the charm operates.”
“Blatant complicity”
For others, if the performance of Julia Roberts and George Clooney is widely acclaimed by critics, it does not compensate for the indigence of the scenario.
"Variation under the coconut trees of
The Wars of the Roses
(1989), by Danny DeVito, the screenplay, sewn with white thread and which could have been even meaner, is worth the flagrant complicity between Julia Roberts and George Clooney, in total letting go- taken”,
writes the
JDD
.
“In the Cary Grant-Katharine Hepburn mode, the Clooney-Roberts couple is very funny, with barbed replies, nasty innuendoes, various banana peels. Then the suite is exhausted, and, in spite of the beauty of the places and the piquancy of the situations, the soufflé falls down
, affirms
L'Obs.
“Even if we don't believe for a moment in their mutual hatred, Julia Roberts and George Clooney are always great when they crumple for a yes or a no, and we could watch it on a loop.
The problem is that the film, which is far too long, ultimately dodges its cheerful comedy subject to switch to serious romance mode on life choices and their heavy consequences”,
adds the specialized magazine
Première.
An improvement, however, on the side of
Liberation
, enchanted by the film, which the daily considers as a "
delicious comedy of the remarriage trend" screwball ", as rigorously funny as its virtuoso duettists, Julia Roberts and George Clooney
".
Télé Loisirs
says the same thing:
"It's a pleasure to see George Clooney and Julia Roberts bickering and juggling between self-mockery and emotion in this romantic comedy about parent-child relationships, even if the plot of the film is classic.