The title says it all: It's Complicated, alright. The sad part is it isn't nearly as complicated as these folks make it out to be. I concede that starting an affair with your ex-husband after he's remarried to the younger woman that broke up your original marriage would definitely qualify as "complicated." I also agree that hiding that affair from your kids and the guy you just started dating makes it even worse. Just don't ask me to feel bad for you though because it is only as complicated as you allow it to be.
Writer/director Nancy Meyers knows what movie audiences want around the holidays. Her previous works (What Women Want and Something's Gotta Give, to name a few) have been big holiday hits and It's Complicated will be no different. Albeit sometimes forced, it is actually quite funny, at times.
Meryl Streep plays Jane, a 50-something single woman whose kids have all left her very costly nest, and who finds herself alone for the first time in her life. It isn't long before her neuroses and several bottles of wine find her in bed with her ex (Alec Baldwin). The twosome are such talented actors that going along with all their antics often not only leads to hilarity but also character development and insight, a rarity in safe fare like this. And let me just say that Streep should get stoned in all of her movies from now on. That woman is downright silly sometimes.
To get complicated things need to get dirty first and It's Complicated is far too clean to qualify. It's like Hollywood's take on the kinds of desperate scenarios indie film characters find themselves in. As they sit amidst all their perfect privilege and wealth though, their woes only come across as whiny. Funny, sure, but self-indulgent too.
(Universal)Writer/director Nancy Meyers knows what movie audiences want around the holidays. Her previous works (What Women Want and Something's Gotta Give, to name a few) have been big holiday hits and It's Complicated will be no different. Albeit sometimes forced, it is actually quite funny, at times.
Meryl Streep plays Jane, a 50-something single woman whose kids have all left her very costly nest, and who finds herself alone for the first time in her life. It isn't long before her neuroses and several bottles of wine find her in bed with her ex (Alec Baldwin). The twosome are such talented actors that going along with all their antics often not only leads to hilarity but also character development and insight, a rarity in safe fare like this. And let me just say that Streep should get stoned in all of her movies from now on. That woman is downright silly sometimes.
To get complicated things need to get dirty first and It's Complicated is far too clean to qualify. It's like Hollywood's take on the kinds of desperate scenarios indie film characters find themselves in. As they sit amidst all their perfect privilege and wealth though, their woes only come across as whiny. Funny, sure, but self-indulgent too.