'The life lesson in 'Ticket to Paradise' is simple: If you're Julia Roberts and George Clooney, you shouldn't have broken up in the first place,' writes Tribune critic Michael Phillips.
I like George Clooney, and I like Julia Roberts, and I like George Clooney with Julia Roberts. In the language of a romantic comedy, that means “versus” for most of the movie, and then “with” when it’s time to wrap things up.
“Ticket to Paradise” is harder to like. It’s a premise for a pitch, not a screenplay, at least not a sharp-witted or interesting one. I’m not fussy. I’m not looking for the most interesting romantic comedy in history with this one. But I do wonder if some writers are so determined to stick to a formula so slavishly, they forget to make the characters funny, or to make characters rather than vaguely delineated personae in the Clooney vein or Roberts vibe.
Clooney and Roberts are huge and hardy movie stars who can open a movie, and they’re good enough actors to convince millions there’s a movie there. Already, prior to its U.S. release in theaters, “Ticket to Paradise” has pulled in $75 million. Now it’s playing Stateside, though its heart and its drone cameras belong to the beaches, greenery and sunshine of Australia, which doubles for the South Pacific island where the wee story takes place.
The life lesson here is simple: If you’re Julia Roberts and George Clooney, you shouldn’t have broken up in the first place — and you have no business being deceitful, theoretically amusing jerks most of the running time. To its modest credit, “Ticket to Paradise” has its breezy, pleasant bits, and that’s all the movie is after. But there’s a difference between “relaxed” and “not very funny, really, hardly at all, in fact.
Dever ,whose dramatic instincts are authentic and true even when the setups are lame, keeps “Ticket to Paradise” a little bit honest. The headliners spin variations on the line, “Why save the good stuff for later?” The movie never quite gets to the good stuff. The setups and joke rhythms are there; the wit got left in an overhead bin back in coach, where nobody in this movie ever sits.
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