What's more disappointing, the surprising lack of chemistry between two actors who normally have a great amount of chemistry (Roberts and Clooney) or the surprising lack of humour from two actors who are usually hilarious on screen (Dever and Lourd)? Pretty much everything is disappointing about this Ticket to Paradise.
The scripts is rarely funny (even with Dever and Lourd!?!?!) and often ridiculous (like when a group of privileged white Americans get stranded in the jungle and go hunt wild boars). The dialogue is downright mean-spirited and the "romance" between Clooney and Roberts is never once believable. Ticket to Paradise is a series of poorly executed cliches with a cast that deserves better.
Having said that the film knows what its doing and never gets bogged down in developing anything serious so at least it never gets boring. Just moves from one trailer joke to the next trailer joke, keeping the pace moving to gives audiences what they want, Clooney and Roberts hamming it up together. We know exactly what is going to happen from the first scene, but not because it feels real or organic. These annoying caricatures are quite awful really and the only reason we can buy them falling in love at all is because they are Roberts and Clooney and that's how these movies play out. But honestly they are both talented actors and comedians and could have been so much better in something better.
Ticket to Paradise
Staring: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Kaitlyn Dever, Billie Lourd, Maxime Bouttier, Lucas Bravo
Director: Ol Parker
Writers: Daniel Pipski, Ol Parker
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