It's Complicated
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5.3 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 109 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 64 out of 109
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 109
  3. Negative: 36 out of 109

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  1. heyitsmegrif4
    Aug 3, 2012
    3
    The actors do fine work, but it is nothing new, nothing fun, and nothing funny. So not much goes on here that is actually complicated. I give this movie 34%.
  2. HowardW.
    Jan 21, 2010
    1
    An insipid story with sappy dialogue delivered by predictable, one-dimensional characters. About as complex as a high school pajama party.
  3. Gloria
    Jan 24, 2010
    0
    I hate Nancy Meyers. And I'm a Woman! She's simply not talented!
  4. GermanN
    Mar 1, 2010
    3
    Below average movie.
  5. ginat
    May 31, 2010
    0
    This is the most absurdly vacuous and unfunny comedy I've seen in decades -- a ridiculous, irritating, unrealistic piece of fluff fantasy for middle-aged women. I couldn't believe that Meryl Streep would participate. I've always loved her but by the end of the film, I was so annoyed by the near-continous tinkle of her laughter -- before and after her every line, it seems -- that I started to hate her. Don't see it, don't rent it, don't order it on Instant Play or Netflix, don't look at the movie posters. It sucks like few films have ever sucked before.… Expand
  6. art
    Feb 16, 2010
    1
    Very unpleasant- Hollywood uses divorce as it's major plot line now because they are bereft of imagination. 60 yr olds now have girlfriends and boyfriends and it makes normal people feel like they are missing something. Believe me , "the results are NOT hilarious".
  7. Davey
    May 23, 2010
    2
    If you liked Sex and the City you might like this miserable bore. Otherwise, it's a terrible waste of acting talent. One funny scene with a laptop computer in a bedroom is what gets the movie a 2 instead of a 0. Basically it's about a manipulative, whiny, self-obsessed lawyer repeatedly conning a sappy ex into giving him her time and yet another chance. The guy is too much of a total jerk to care about and the wife is too much of a fool. Top it off with adult offspring who behave like 12-year-olds and you've got a film to avoid like the plague.… Expand
  8. DWilly
    Dec 31, 2009
    2
    What an ironic title for a film so surface and forced I felt it leaching the art out of me as I sat there stunned and dispirited that the can-do-wrong Meryl Sreep could thrash about and do so wrong. Baldwin is terrible, too; he's much more nuanced in his sitcom and sketch comedy work than in this weird celebration of people so white they're disappearing. It's all so false I felt guity for wishing something awful would happen to not only the people on the screen, but the filmmakers themselves just to hopefully bestow on them some character.… Expand
  9. DarrenU
    Dec 30, 2009
    2
    There is nothing at stake in the plot of the film. Steve Martin's was the only character I cared about. The adult children are insufferable. Rich white folks are boring. It's not complicated.
  10. KipH.
    Dec 25, 2009
    3
    Good acting but the movie is so drawn out that it becomes tedious. It's definitely a "chick flick" as most of the laughs from the audience were coming from women.
  11. MikeD.
    Dec 28, 2009
    4
    One very funny scene does not a movie make. A better title would have been It's Trite.
  12. Zorgly
    Feb 9, 2011
    4
    It's not complicated, it's not well made, and it's not worth your time. Basic run of the mill chick flick themes and ideas trying to masquerade as something more by getting good actors to do bad work. a couple of mildly enjoyable moments (thanks to Alec Baldwin) can't save this one.
  13. JBM
    Oct 16, 2011
    1
    This is a comedy? What a bore! I watched it for the many familiar faces in it and I have never seen so much talent do absolutely nothing. Krasinsky managed a small bit of comic performance in the middle of the film so thanks for that. This movie had no tension whatsover. Even when the characters were mildly bothered by their actions, they were totally thrilled with their perfect lives. And those kids? Where do you get kids who were little more than cardboard cutouts of persons? This is a perfect movie to keep on the DVR for when you cannot sleep. If I hear a soft and mellow guitar background one more time, I will shoot myself. no no no no no.… Expand
  14. csw12
    Apr 3, 2012
    2
    Not funny at all especially when you have two talented actors. An insipid story with sappy dialogue delivered by predictable, one-dimensional characters. About as complex as the movie's title.

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Metascore
57 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 30 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 30
  3. Negative: 1 out of 30
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    67
    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.”
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  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    70
    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.
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  3. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Nick Schager
    40
    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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