Ticket to Paradise stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts as David and Georgia Cotton a now divorced couple who really do not get along very well and bicker all the time but this time they’ve gone to Bali to stop their daughter Lily (Kaitlyn Dever) from marrying Gede (Maxime Bouttier) a man she only met some 40 days beforehand but they’ll have to put their differences aside if their going to stop their daughter from marrying young and early.
Ticket to Paradise is good fun and first off I have to talk about the visuals in this movie even though it is a rom com at heart the film makes nice use of its Australian filming locations to double for Bali (the film was shot in Queensland during the pandemic) though watching the movie you wouldn’t tell its Bali and not Queensland and there are lots of nice watery locales, islands and on a cinema screen it acts as a nice travelogue.
As for the movie itself its okay and Dever is pretty good as Lily and she has a good wingman in her Booksmart co star Billie Lourd as her best friend and often steals a lot of the films best laughs but this is Clooney and Roberts’s movie through and through and they are wonderful together reigniting that old Oceans 11 chemistry as if they’d never left it behind.
In fact I wish that the movie had been about them instead of the daughter as every time it went away from Clooney and Roberts it felt the film just lot a lot of its spark and snap and if the movie had been about their marriage falling apart only to find themselves together again by a coincidence only to discover they still love each other and regret leaving years before I think it would’ve been a much much better film than the one we have.
And that was Ticket to Paradise but I wouldn’t pack your bag to leave tonight to go watch it I’d wait for a budget ticket to see this one and hope you don’t lose your luggage, 2 and a half out of 5.
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