Ticket to Paradise – ABC Film Challenge – Romance – T – Ticket to Paradise – Movie Review
Director: Ol Parker
Writer: Ol Parker, Daniel Pipski (Screenplay)
Cast
- George Clooney (Ocean’s Eleven)
- Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman)
- Kaitlyn Dever (Booksmart)
- Billie Lourd (American Horror Story)
- Maxime Bouttier (Meet Me After Sunset)
Plot: A divorced couple teams up and travels to Bali to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago.
Runtime: 1 Hour 44 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Ticket to Paradise starts when bitterly divorced couple David (Clooney) and Georgia (Roberts) must put their difference aside. They can’t stand being in the same room together, but when their daughter Lily (Dever) graduates, she makes a new decision. However, things get worse when Lily meets a man Gede (Bouttier) and decides to get married.
Now, David and Georgia must travel to Bali for the wedding with a plan to stop it happening. They believe she is making a terrible mistake after spending her time in law school. David and Georgia decide to put their differences aside to stop their daughter make what they believe to be the biggest mistake of her life.
Verdict on Ticket to Paradise
Ticket to Paradise is a romantic comedy following a pair of divorcees that must put aside their differences to hopefully stop their daughter from getting married. They believe it has been too quick and that she is throwing away everything she has worked for. However, they find themselves getting caught up in a bigger problem they never realized, she might actually be happy.
While this comedy is filled with bickering between Julia Roberts and George Clooney, that gets most of the laughs. The deeper meaning behind what they want makes perfect sense. It is more about how they go through the process. On paper, it would be considered madness to marry someone after 37 days; even if their parents weren’t split, they would have the same concerns. Clooney and Roberts are great and get plenty of laughs along the way. The location is beautiful showing how easily Lily could have fallen in love with the area.
Final Thoughts – Ticket to Paradise is a fun romantic comedy filled with laughs.