George Clooney and Julia Roberts delight in joyous rom-com Ticket To Paradise
FILM REVIEW: TICKET TO PARADISE (12A) – VIEWED AT THE LIGHT CINEMA, WISBECH
STARS: GEORGE CLOONEY, JULIA ROBERTS, KAITLYN DEVER, BILLIE LOURD, MAXIME BOUTTIER AND LUCAS BRAVO.
RUNNING TIME: 1 HR 44 MINS DIRECTOR: OL PARKER
I heard somewhere that this was the film to watch to escape all your troubles and worries about events at home and abroad lately – and it most certainly is.
When Hollywood Royalty George Clooney and Julia Roberts team up you know you’re in for Rom-Com heaven, and the A-lister friends do not disappoint here.
Their off-screen friendship has helped their chemistry before in films such as Oceans Eleven and Twelve, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Money Monster – and in 2022 it’s as electric as ever.
The premise of the film is simple: their characters David and Georgia were once love-struck young kids who married too young and divorced when the daily grind became too much.
However, before their hostile split – which is still at full boil – they did one thing right, bringing their baby Lily (played by Kaitlyn Dever) into the world.
Twenty five years later, and the law school graduate is celebrating finishing her exams with carefree friend Wren Butler (Billie Lourd) in the beautiful island of Bali when she falls in love.
She emails her mum and dad to let them know she is planning to marry seaweed farmer Gede (Maxime Bouttier) and the battling exes fly out to stop her making the same mistake they believe they did a quarter of a century before.
They arrive with a plan to scupper the forthcoming wedding and take their daughter home for the legal career they’ve always wanted for her. I’ll let the reader guess where the romance comes in, but it’s no spoiler to say there are plenty of laughs too. Georgia’s handsome, younger boyfriend Paul (Lucas Bravo) is also on the island, having piloted the plane, and he is actually given some of the best comic scenes.
There’s some terrific dad dancing from Clooney too as the film bounces merrily to its predictable but heart-warming conclusion. I laughed out loud, I felt a tear in my eye and I got what I expected... a joyous escape from reality.
By Jeremy Ransome
Rating 8/10
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