It's Complicated (2009)
Have you noticed that Meryl Streep tends to make two or three heavy, serious movies and then as her reward has a silly, contemporary fling immediately afterwards? After the extremely heavy drama Doubt and the period piece Julie & Julia, she made Nancy Meyers’s It’s Complicated, a silly, contemporary fling, which preceded The Iron Lady, Hope Springs, and August: Osage County, which were all very heavy.
If you like period-piece-Meryl far better than contemporary-Meryl, you’re not going to like this movie. Just stick to her dramas and save yourself two hours. This movie is very silly, and a typical Nancy Meyers unrealistic chick flick. If you thought The Holiday was too sweet and Something’s Gotta Give had an unrealistic ending, you’re not going to like this movie. I absolutely loved The Holiday, and own a copy of Something’s Gotta Give, but I didn’t really like this one, so my advice is to watch the preview and see if it appeals to you. It’s a very good representative of the full feature.
Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin are divorced and adjusting to their new lives. He was unfaithful and married the other woman, Lake Bell. Meryl finds comfort by gabbing with her girlfriends, Rita Wilson and Mary Kay Place. Steve Martin is a steady, stable architect with a nice personality, intelligence, and an unrealistic lack of flaws, in keeping with Nancy Meyers tradition. Meryl starts to date Steve, and all of a sudden, Alec gets tired of his midlife crisis and wants Meryl back—also in keeping with an unrealistic Nancy Meyers tradition. So, she juggles both and tries to decide who she wants in her life.
It’s every woman’s fantasy for her ex-husband to ditch his 20-something babe of a wife and want her back, and to have the opportunity to go out with a dependable, kind man and also have fun with an irresponsible man. It’s just not entirely realistic that this would happen. If you love your movies to be fluffy fiction, go out and rent It’s Complicated. Just know that it doesn’t really live up to its title.
More Steve Martin movies here!
More Meryl Streep movies here!
If you like period-piece-Meryl far better than contemporary-Meryl, you’re not going to like this movie. Just stick to her dramas and save yourself two hours. This movie is very silly, and a typical Nancy Meyers unrealistic chick flick. If you thought The Holiday was too sweet and Something’s Gotta Give had an unrealistic ending, you’re not going to like this movie. I absolutely loved The Holiday, and own a copy of Something’s Gotta Give, but I didn’t really like this one, so my advice is to watch the preview and see if it appeals to you. It’s a very good representative of the full feature.
Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin are divorced and adjusting to their new lives. He was unfaithful and married the other woman, Lake Bell. Meryl finds comfort by gabbing with her girlfriends, Rita Wilson and Mary Kay Place. Steve Martin is a steady, stable architect with a nice personality, intelligence, and an unrealistic lack of flaws, in keeping with Nancy Meyers tradition. Meryl starts to date Steve, and all of a sudden, Alec gets tired of his midlife crisis and wants Meryl back—also in keeping with an unrealistic Nancy Meyers tradition. So, she juggles both and tries to decide who she wants in her life.
It’s every woman’s fantasy for her ex-husband to ditch his 20-something babe of a wife and want her back, and to have the opportunity to go out with a dependable, kind man and also have fun with an irresponsible man. It’s just not entirely realistic that this would happen. If you love your movies to be fluffy fiction, go out and rent It’s Complicated. Just know that it doesn’t really live up to its title.
More Steve Martin movies here!
More Meryl Streep movies here!