It’s cold, dark, snowy, the longest winter in memory….or is that just me? The cabin fever was kicking in so the only cure was to get out of the house. Sunday evening, where to? No contest, the local multiplex yay! I’d seen the trailers for ‘Its Complicated’ and liked the look of it.

The film was written and directed by Nancy Meyers, the same lady that wrote and directed the (I think) great ‘Somethings got to give’. There was older leading lady Meryl Streep looking fabulous and sassy and together like an older woman should be. Ya, I was wrong.

This film is terrible don’t go! The storyline could’ve been funny and original, it wasn’t. It felt like it was written by a fifteen year old and their persepctive on how life turns out when you’re a grown-up, In contrast there were some ‘down with the kids’ grandma references to ‘you never answered my calls or emails?’ and constant whipping out of blackberries and iphones, these older people are so hip!

There were gross blatent incidents of product placement namely when Meryl opens her make-up drawer-Clinique anyone? I love Meryl Streep she seems an aspirational role-model with integrity. I’m beginnig to question this with this film. The dialogue is appalling and cliched. This supposedly professional solvent woman has a bunch of ‘girlfriends’ who make the ‘Sex and the City’ girls look like French intellectuals.

The plot is predictable, cringy and not remotely believable or funny. I wasn’t naive enough to think that this was anything more than escapist fluff but I expected a bit of charm, sparkle and romance. You won’t get that in this film and what the hell is going on with Steve Martins face? an advertisement on how not to do botox. Awful, I feel unclean.

By: Meabh Barron

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