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It's Complicated

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 30 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Romance
Written by: Nancy Meyers
Directed by: Nancy Meyers
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 25, 2009
Running Time: minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for some drug content and sexuality
Starring Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, John Krasinski, and Lake Bell
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 and Jake move on with their lives, or is love truly lovelier the second time around? It's... complicated. (Universal Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
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Washington Post 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.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Both actors are a lot better than this material requires – or deserves.
Read Full Review >New Orleans Times-Picayune 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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
It's Complicated isn’t: It’s pretty simple. It’s simply a good time.
Read Full Review >ReelViews 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.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe 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.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Funny even when it relies heavily on age-old, old-age gags.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
I enjoyed the spectacle of middle-aged people making spectacles of themselves.
Read Full Review >Slate Dana Stevens
Just beneath this movie's gleaming high-end surfaces beats the heart of a classic screwball comedy.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader 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.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter 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.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) 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.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly 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.”
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
You don't have to feel guilty for lapping up this froth. Just don't expect nourishment.
Read Full Review >St. Louis Post-Dispatch 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.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
It's Complicated is basically "Avatar" for women of a certain age, with blond highlights replacing blue skin.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
The movie's anchored by a strong lead performance and a steady sense of humor.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle 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.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
This is wish-fulfilment fantasy, where the laughs lie in sorting out an embarrassment of riches.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times 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.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Baldwin and Streep do make the most of the situation, and their sparky chemistry provides the only real draw.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
Meyers has a good feel for contemporary comedy; it’s reality, however, that slips through her grasp.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
It's Complicated is vacuous overall, although attractively packaged.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal 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.
Read Full Review >Empire 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.
Read Full Review >Time Out New York 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.
Read Full Review >Variety 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.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Scott Foundas
Watching this garish fiasco, I found it mildly depressing to see Streep hurdling through this gauntlet of strained whimsy, her every toothy smile and throaty chortle more affected than Sophie Zawistowski's Polish accent.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.3 (out of 10) based on 49 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Gloria gave it a0:
I hate Nancy Meyers. And I'm a Woman! She's simply not talented!
Howard W. gave it a1:
An insipid story with sappy dialogue delivered by predictable, one-dimensional characters. About as complex as a high school pajama party.
Mark J gave it an8:
Okay. Not everyone lives in Malibu and owns a French bakery catering to movie stars. Not everyone is a partner in an architectural firm specializing in million-dollar home improvements. Maybe Meryl Streep smiles and giggles a bit too much. But the comedy is, at least, inspired by some believable reality. Alec Baldwin is dead-on hilarious, Steve Martin is a charming leading man and Meryl Streep is light and lovable. Mark J.
John G. gave it an8:
John Krasinski almost steals the show as the son-in-law, but Streep is tremendous and the whole thing shows how life and love together can be, complicated by others.
Larry gave it an8:
I really don't get the negativity about this movie. Sure, it's not deep or outrageous or wonderfully novel and clever. And, it is a bit long. Nevertheless, it has a solid storyline and most of the characters are solid. Most important, however, is that the film is actually funny. Some of the gags have been around a long time, but most are fresh, adult and fun. I saw it with an audience of people mostly over 50. The women, in particular, were cackling and guffawing loudly and frequently. I think someone must be at least a worldly and married 25 yrs or older to have a reasonable appreciation of this film.
Ron P. gave it a7:
Overall the movie was very good the acting was great the only real problem was the film it self. The last half of the movie showed mic booms and mic's hanging over the actors heads and prop guys hiding or trying to. There was just as many laughs and wonderments at that as in the movie. The film makers get an F, very unprofessional.
bob w gave it a5:
Put off by recurrent Hollywood practice of placing story in megamansion/estate. This is where film makers live, perhaps, but not where people live, and it gets tiresome to watch - especially when a central theme is the planning of a major edition to what already is a White House sized home (including a kitchen redo of what is already a commercial scale kitchen). There is also a "garden" which looks like a small farm at Versailles, ready for photographing for a coffee table book. In other words, the characters and settings were ridiculous.
