Jeez this is hard work. Clunky and unsubtle romcom that needed a script with finesse and charm, more dialogue, more funny intrigue and a director that could have reined in George Clooney who seems to think that gurning is hilarious. Sorry George it isn't. From the opening scenes you'll work out what's going to happen here. Clooney is a businessman and Julia Roberts his ex (she's an art dealer), married young, had a daughter and now hate one another. So we get the bickering couple competing for their daughter Lily's (Kaitlyn Dever) affection. When she heads off to Bali for a holiday and falls for a young local seaweed farmer whom she wants to marry off go the parents to sabotage the whole thing. You can guess the rest. The beautiful island setting is the best thing about the film because the rest is mediocre cliché. For the most part this is painful and all the jokes have been in other films and so little is original. My advice is give this a miss.
How can they ruin a gorgeous location like Bali, destroy two usually perfectly appealing performers and shatter the whole concept of the rom com all in one fell swoop....Dismal stuff.
Thought this would be good viewing with a cast to match, how wrong could I be.
A load of old dribble as my folks would say. I'm sure 90 minutes could be spent doing/
watching something worthwhile. Pathetic over acting in my opinion. But put some money
towards their retirement fund I suppose ! They must be desperate.