It's Complicated Movie Review

Title: It's Complicated

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Synopsis: Jane is the mother of three grown kids, owns a thriving Santa Barbara bakery/restaurant and has - after a decade of divorce - an amicable relationship with her ex-husband, attorney Jake. But when Jane and Jake find themselves out of town for their son's college graduation, things start to get complicated. An innocent meal together turns into the unimaginable - an affair. With Jake remarried to the much younger Agness, Jane is now, of all things, the other woman. Caught in the middle of their renewed romance is Adam, an architect hired to remodel Jane's kitchen. Healing from a divorce of his own, Adam starts to fall for Jane, but soon realizes he's become part of a love triangle. Should Jane

It's Complicated Film Review

It's Complicated Score: 57

88	Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan
	The romantic comedy about a divorced couple having an affair manages to be both light on its feet and heavy enough to deliver something of a message.
75	Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
	Both actors are a lot better than this material requires �?? or deserves.
75	New Orleans Times-Picayune by Mike Scott
	The result: a fun and sweet romantic comedy that lands comfortably on the smart side of vacant, along the way offering a pleasant and satisfying holiday diversion for the grown-ups in the room.
75	Chicago Tribune by Michael Phillips
	It's Complicated isn�??t: It�??s pretty simple. It�??s simply a good time.
75	ReelViews by James Berardinelli
	Ends up being one of the end-year's best sources of pure entertainment. And for those who believe laughter is the best medicine, there's more than a bellyful or two to be found here.
75	Boston Globe by Wesley Morris
	Streep is in movie star mode, and she�??s irresistible. But Baldwin achieves something not many men have been able to with Streep: You notice him.
75	Miami Herald by Connie Ogle
	Funny even when it relies heavily on age-old, old-age gags.
75	Philadelphia Inquirer by Carrie Rickey
	I enjoyed the spectacle of middle-aged people making spectacles of themselves.
70	Slate by Dana Stevens
	Just beneath this movie's gleaming high-end surfaces beats the heart of a classic screwball comedy.
70	Chicago Reader by J.R. Jones
	The comedy approaches true hilarity only when Meyers resorts to the surefire gimmick of having the oldsters get massively stoned at a party, though Streep's dilemma is handled well enough for the movie to accumulate some gravitas as it nears the two-hour mark.
70	The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt
	What Meyers doesn't do is take chances. She sticks to formula and predictability. In "Complicated," this is as much a matter of casting as writing.
67	The Onion (A.V. Club) by Scott Tobias
	It�??s Complicated is the sort of �??mature�?� character piece the French do regularly and better (and without the need for quotation marks around �??mature�?�), but the cast at least helps relieve some of the tidiness that belies the title.
67	Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
	It's Complicated is middle-aged porn, the specialty of Meyers, who also set ladies and interior decorators drooling over homes and gardens in 2006's �??The Holiday.�?�
63	Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
	You don't have to feel guilty for lapping up this froth. Just don't expect nourishment.
63	Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
	There's funny stuff here. We like everybody.
63	St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Joe Williams
	It's funny but (sorry, ladies) unrealistic that Jake continuously sneaks away from his young wife to canoodle with Jane. Baldwin is a blast, but the role requires him to indulge in indignities such as a naked webcam conversation.
63	New York Post by Lou Lumenick
	It's Complicated is basically "Avatar" for women of a certain age, with blond highlights replacing blue skin.
60	The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
	Pleasurable, daffy if at times daft.
58	Portland Oregonian by M. E. Russell
	The movie's anchored by a strong lead performance and a steady sense of humor.
50	San Francisco Chronicle by Amy Biancolli
	The sum is a comedy that starts out slow and talky, picks up speed - and sexiness, and hysterics - somewhere in the middle, then drags to a stop when everyone starts confessing their feeeelings.
50	The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Rick Groen
	This is wish-fulfilment fantasy, where the laughs lie in sorting out an embarrassment of riches.
50	Los Angeles Times by Betsy Sharkey
	The problem with It's Complicated, a romantic comedy about the menopausal crowd starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, is that it's not nearly complicated enough.
50	New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
	Baldwin and Streep do make the most of the situation, and their sparky chemistry provides the only real draw.
50	Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
	Meyers has a good feel for contemporary comedy; it�??s reality, however, that slips through her grasp.
50	USA Today by Claudia Puig
	It's Complicated is vacuous overall, although attractively packaged.
50	Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern
	After listening to Jane and Jake talk it out in the interminable process of working it out�??they explore their relationship as exhaustively, and exhaustingly, as any kids on Facebook�??I found myself wishing for more shallows and fewer depths.
40	Empire by Helen O'Hara
	Like all Meyers�?? films, it�??s more about interior design porn than real human emotions and drags on for far too long. Still, Streep, Krasinski and Baldwin are so good, they almost make it work. Almost.
40	Time Out New York by Nick Schager
	It�??s bad enough that Nancy Meyer�??s latest conventional romcom is blessed with a title so bluntly unimaginative as to seem facetious; the rub is that it�??s not even a truthful assessment.
40	Variety by Todd McCarthy
	Cute and clever though the plot may be, everything is played out in the broadest possible terms without an iota of nuance or subtlety.