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The power of superstars … Ticket to Paradise by Ol Parker (Mamma Mia! Here we go again) is the film to see at the cinema on the weekend even just for the two of them. George Clooney (61) and Julia Roberts (54), lifelong friends and together finally in a comedy that mimics the classic romantic ones and that they dominate from start to finish. Him, her and Bali (which is actually Australian Queensland, but it does the same) …
In 1996, after One day by chance with Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney he declared that he would never play one again rom-com. With Ticket to Paradise (in theaters), the star breaks his promise. Although not very “Roma” – constantly arguing with the former partner in the fiction, Julia Roberts – we are certainly on the side of comedy, brilliant and partly “pink”. In fact, the two stars play the divorced parents of a girl who intends to get married. Who try in every way to make her wedding fail.
A scene from the film: The story is set in Bali, but actually filming took place in Australian Queensland, specifically on Hamilton Island, which is part of the Whitsundays. First on the left is Kaitlyn Dever, aka Lily, the daughter of David (Clooney) and Georgia (Roberts)
Despite some weaknesses, in our opinion Ticket to Paradise is the film to be seen in theaters at the weekend. Especially for the unrivaled, stainless and in great shape Roberts-Clooney duo.
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Ticket to Paradise: Italian trailer of the film with George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Lucas Bravo
Plot and cast of the holiday rom-com
Georgia (Julia Roberts) and David (George Clooney) are a long time divorced couple. They no longer speak to each other except through their daughter Lily (Kaitlyn Dever). They meet at the girl’s law degree, a future lawyer.
As a gift, the girl goes to Bali, together with her best friend. Here she falls in love with a local boy, Gede (Maxime Bouttier), algae grower. Invited to the wedding, Georgia and David go to Indonesia determined to prevent the wedding. They finally agree on one thing: plan ways to prevent their daughter from making the same mistake as they do.
From the theft of wedding rings to… How far will the ex-lovers soured by life go?
It is not the first time together by Clooney & Roberts
Some absent-minded critics have defined the Roberts-Clooney duo as “unprecedented”. In reality, the two stars, very friends in life, have already crossed paths several times. From the choirs Ocean’s Eleven And Twelveas far as Money Monster – The other side of money.
In Ocean’s Elevenin particular, Roberts played Tess, ex-wife of Danny Ocean-Clooney who was trying to reconquer …
Of course, the couple appears for the first time as an absolute protagonist in a romantic comedy, as ex-spouses in perennial conflict.
George Clooney at the English premiere of the film, between Julia Roberts and his wife Amal Clooney
Review: remake the sophisticated comedy with two super stars
Sophisticated comedy had its golden age in the best of Hollywood. Black and white, stars like Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart, Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable… From Susanna to Scandal in Philadelphia…
The project of the English director Ol Parker (Mamma Mia! Here we go again, Now Is Good), although in color, is clearly referring to that genre that (unfortunately) no longer exists. Updating it to the contemporary era. The result works partly and above all thanks to the two protagonists. Clooney has long been called “the new Gable”. He also played a lot / gigionee, particularly in the Coen brothers’ cinema (remember the mustache in the magnificent Brother, where are you?). Roberts also works as a contemporary “Hepburn”.
Roberts with Lucas Bravo, the French actor (Emily in Paris) who plays the pilot boyfriend
Their duets are a real one race of charm and (deliberately) fake smiles. In fact, they intend to give their daughter the impression that they are in favor of the wedding. While both are plotting to sabotage the marriage …
Side note. For us it is not too credible that the daughter Lily, played by Kaitlyn Dever, pretty but rather “common”, was born of two super hotties like Clooney and Roberts …
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