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88The 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.
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75It's Complicated isn't: It's pretty simple. It's simply a good time.
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75Funny even when it relies heavily on age-old, old-age gags.
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75I enjoyed the spectacle of middle-aged people making spectacles of themselves.
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75Streep 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.
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75Ends 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.
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75The 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.
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75Both actors are a lot better than this material requires – or deserves.
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70What 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.
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70Just beneath this movie's gleaming high-end surfaces beats the heart of a classic screwball comedy.
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70The 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.
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67It'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."
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67It'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.
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63You don't have to feel guilty for lapping up this froth. Just don't expect nourishment.
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63There's funny stuff here. We like everybody.
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63It's Complicated is basically "Avatar" for women of a certain age, with blond highlights replacing blue skin.
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63It'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.
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60Pleasurable, daffy if at times daft.
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58The movie's anchored by a strong lead performance and a steady sense of humor.
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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.
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50It's Complicated is vacuous overall, although attractively packaged.
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50This is wish-fulfilment fantasy, where the laughs lie in sorting out an embarrassment of riches.
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50Baldwin and Streep do make the most of the situation, and their sparky chemistry provides the only real draw.
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50Meyers has a good feel for contemporary comedy; it's reality, however, that slips through her grasp.
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50The 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.
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50After 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.
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40Like 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.
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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.
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40Cute and clever though the plot may be, everything is played out in the broadest possible terms without an iota of nuance or subtlety.
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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.
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