Ticket to Paradise

The film immediately recalls the tempestuous relationship Roberts and Clooney shared as the romantic leads of the Ocean's Eleven films.

Parker uses them in the right amounts. She’s essentially playing the same scene-stealing, bon vivant weirdo as in 2019’s Booksmart: hysterically funny while always having a minimum of two day-glo-tinged cocktails glued to her hands. David, at one point, confesses that he’s at his most vulnerable in the highs of his daughter’s life – “that’s when you get scared, because you don’t want things to change”. It’s rooted in a parent’s fear that their children are such perfect models of themselves that they’re bound to repeat the same mistakes. They’re the right ingredients. Ticket to Paradise immediately recalls the tempestuous relationship Roberts and Clooney shared as the romantic leads of the Ocean’s Eleven films. Director Ol Parker’s job is to simply paint around the two, in bright but soothing shades. [Julia Roberts](/topic/julia-roberts) and [George Clooney](/topic/george-clooney) fall in love. The locals – including Bouttier's Gede and his father, Agung Pindha's dryly humorous Wayan – are key to the story. And love, inevitably, will blossom. When they’re – again, incidentally – booked together on the plane over, they lock themselves into a death grip while riding out a patch of rough turbulence. As embittered exes in Ticket to Paradise, flying to Bali in order to stop the whirlwind nuptials of their daughter ( [Kaitlyn Dever](/topic/kaitlyn-dever)) to a local seaweed farmer (Maxime Bouttier), the duo have been provided a full buffet of snappish asides.

Julia Roberts and George Clooney light up the screen in Ol Parker's old-fashioned, to a fault, rom-com Ticket to Paradise.

And there’s nothing wrong with that, but I do hope Ticket to Paradise would have gone just an inch further and explored its characters better. Parker, seemingly, is so convinced of the idea of soulmates and true love that it’s hard not to be on board with that. Even if you hate rom-coms, it’s hard to deny the dynamo chemistry between Clooney and Roberts. The narrative at times feels overly contrived and the addition of Georgia’s new boyfriend Paul as the comic relief doesn’t amuse nearly as much as intended. Ticket to Paradise is unashamed of its own old-fashioned nature and reliably provides romance, thrills and giggles in appropriate intervals. Maybe it’s Clooney’s charm, Roberts’ warmth and Devers’ innocence, but the film did sell me on its sentimental view of love, at least for its moderate runtime of 104 minutes.

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The strength of Ticket to Paradise is easily Clooney and Roberts’ playful chemistry and the rhythm of their dialogue. Ticket to Paradise is a reunion for Clooney and Roberts and their on-screen chemistry didn’t miss a beat. Their dynamic is in the same league as Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. It wasn’t an amicable break-up and if it wasn’t for their daughter Lily (Kaitlyn Dever), the two would rather they never see each other again. Because Clooney and Roberts are on form. The glittering power of the world’s biggest movie stars is a powerful allure.

Direction: Ol Parker. Actors: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Kaitlyn Dever, Maxime Bouttier, Billie Lourd, Lucas Bravo. 12A, 104 minutes.

It is rooted in parents’ fear that their children are such perfect models of themselves that they are bound to repeat the same mistakes. In essence, she plays the same weirdo bon vivant that steals the scene as in book smart 2019: hysterically amused while always having a minimum of two cocktails on hand. Ticket to Paradise recalls the tempestuous relationship that Roberts and Clooney shared as romantic leads in the films of Ocean’s Eleven. Although they have accumulated a good amount of screen time together, even in Money Monster 2016, this is their first genuine romantic comedy as a couple. Here, when Georgia (Roberts) and David (Clooney) are sitting next to each other at their daughter’s graduation, they fight over armrests. Like bitter exes in Ticket to Paradise Flying to Bali to stop their daughter’s (Kaitlyn Dever) giddy wedding to a local seaweed farmer (Maxime Bouttier), the duo have been treated to a full buffet of acrimonious conflict.

Directed by: Ol Parker. Starring: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Kaitlyn Dever, Maxime Bouttier, Billie Lourd, Lucas Bravo. 12A, 104 minutes.

It is rooted in parents’ fear that their children are such perfect models of themselves that they are bound to repeat the same mistakes. David confesses at one point that he is most vulnerable in the high points of his daughter’s life – “then you get scared, because you don’t want things to change”. Ticket to paradise instantly recalls the rambunctious relationship that Roberts and Clooney shared as the romantic protagonists of the Ocean’s Eleven movies. They’re the designated adults in the room, so it doesn’t really matter how ferociously they fight – you know they’re sensible enough never to dig so deep in their claws that it draws blood. Like bitter exes in Ticket to paradiseWhile flying to Bali to stop their daughter (Kaitlyn Dever)’s whirlwind marriage to a local seaweed farmer (Maxime Bouttier), the duo were served a full buffet of spicy asides. Here, as Georgia (Roberts) and David (Clooney) sit side by side at their daughter’s graduation, incidentally, they struggle over armrests.

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We didn't get to do that many scenes together on Booksmart, but we got super close anyway." "I wish my whole career was just playing Kaitlyn Dever's best friend, so if you know any scripts available then send them over." Doing those scenes with her was just so much fun."

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By all accounts, it seems that the Hollywood stars are delighted to be starring together in Ticket to Paradise. “It’s a joy to watch Julia Roberts and George Clooney fall in love. Sometimes it’s nice to be told life’s a beach,” wrote All the while Clooney and Roberts are bickering, and as could be predicted, start to hate each other a little less. “As much as this will pain us both, we have to call a truce to make this work.” The antics begin when art dealer Georgia and architect David’s daughter Lily plans to marry a Bali local (who she has just met) instead of pursuing a promising legal career.

The Ocean's 11 duo bring their off-screen banter to this lighthearted take on family conflict on a tropical island, from the director of Mamma Mia!

(And where Cher needed to arrive on a helicopter to give her a swift rebuttal.) (Shout-out to Agung Pindha as Gede's dad, Wayan, landing some of the biggest laughs with some of the film's sketchiest material). (I don't think there was a scene in this film where I wasn't thinking, "I wish Nancy Meyers was directing this." It's a wonder why Gede falls for her at all – her only discernible character trait is that she's an aspiring lawyer – but then again, the easygoing French-Indonesian actor is rarely called upon to do much other than look hot. Certainly neither Roberts nor Clooney are about to be threatened by Kaitlyn Dever, whose talent is wasted on a thinly conceived character without much in the way of personality or charm. They're both coasting – pleasant for a while, until you start wanting more…

The film tells the story of a divorced couple, played by George Clooney & Julia Roberts, who attempt to stop their daughter from getting married to a ...