The rom-com skates by on Julia Roberts and George Clooney's breezy chemistry but it has little else to offer.
Roberts and Clooney play Georgia and David Cotton, a bitterly divorced set of parents whose daughter, Lily , is fresh out of law school. Just before she takes a demanding job with a top firm, Lily and her best friend, Wren , set off on a trip to Bali. Lily immediately falls in love with a local seaweed farmer named Gede and they decide to marry within days.
OK, so Parker's film, written by him and Daniel Pipski, is not exactly out here to reinvent the wheel. Predictability is part of the appeal of “Ticket to Paradise,” and you can't say it doesn't succeed in that. The familiar beats get played with sincerity. A wince-inducing late-night dance floor sequence with Kris Kross' “Jump” arrives like a matter of prescribed ritual.
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