It's Complicated
Movie Review
"It's Complicated"
Review by Eric D. Snider
Grade: C+
Rating: R
Released: Friday, December 25, 2009
Directed by:
Cast:
The message of "It's Complicated" seems to be that it sure is tough being a wealthy white person in Santa Barbara. Boy howdy! First there's your highly successful bakery that's pulling in money hand over fist. Then there are the complications of building an addition to your house (in which you live alone, and which needs no additions). And then, to top it all off, the architect you've hired expresses romantic interest in you at the same time that you're rekindling an affair with your ex-husband! Two perfectly good suitors fall into your lap simultaneously! Where will the nightmare end??
History teaches us that during the Great Depression, poor audiences flocked to movies about rich people, delighted to be whisked away to a glamorous world and escape their own dreary lives. But the current economic crisis isn't as bad as the one in the 1930s, and people have found numerous other forms of escapism since then, so I don't foresee "It's Complicated" appealing to anyone other than people who can relate to it. The rest of us might find it a little smug, a little precious.
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Grade: C+
Rated R, some profanity, some sexual dialogue, some partial nudity -- filmmakers appealed for a PG-13 rating but were denied by the ratings board
1 hr., 59 min.
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December 26, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Ooh, tell me more about this "Movie Characters R Us."
Signed,
Someone growing older and more and more frustrated with cliche plots, characters, and "been there done that" entertainment...