Ticket to Paradise review – George Clooney and Julia Roberts go heavy on the goof

Double act have some silly fun as a couple sizzling with mutual irritation who head to Bali to sabotage their daughter’s marriageGeorge Clooney goes into his goofy comedy routine in this feelmoderate romcom from director and co-writer Ol Parker: an intergenerational tale of Crazy Rich Americans going to a wedding.

Clooney brings some serious goof: he does his goofy face and the goof is onstream more or less from the outset.

This may be to the unease of those who like him in a more sophisticated low-key style, such as in Ocean’s Eleven or Up in the Air, or those who look to the Coens to rein in and shape his broader comedy tendencies, as in O Brother, Where Art Thou? or Intolerable Cruelty.Clooney plays David, a prosperous man in middle age who is divorced from high-flying art dealer Georgia; this is Julia Roberts.

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