Language: English
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Cast: Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin
Director: Nancy Meyer
Music: Hans Zimmer, Heitor Pereira
Reasons to watch: Meryl Streep’s performance is so heart warming.
Reasons not to watch: It just isn’t real. Doesn’t serve a wider audience.
Storyline: “It’s Complicated” ain’t that complicated as the title suggests. It is a middle-aged sex comedy but with more rom-com urges than absurd and derisory ones. Meryl Streep plays Jane, a divorced owner of a flourishing Santa Barbara bakery/restaurant. Alec Baldwin is Jake, who dumped her 10 years back to marry a younger woman, Agness (Lake Bell). While Jane is gradually coming to terms with the divorce, she meets Jake at the graduation of one of their three grown children (Caitlin Fitzgerald, Zoe Kazan and Hunter Parrish) on the East Coast. Jane ‘hooks-up’ with her ex and suddenly, they find themselves pulled into a drunken affair and Streep becomes the “other” woman. But again, Meyer’s movies always foreshadow most of the dramatic turns. Just when we get the impression that we are going to witness a renewal of lost love, Adam (Steve Martin) walks in. He’s the architect hired to re-model Jane’s kitchen. Adam himself who is in healing stage from a divorce, is smitten by Jane and soon falls in love with her. And Baldwin’s character, a comical embellishment of male disorientation with womankind, is never a plausible life choice. Looks like we’ve stumbled upon a love triangle — Well the only difference being the triangle made of 50 year olds!
Climax Handling: Perfect casting that has worked wonders for the climax.
Points: Some of the characters could have really been avoided.
Rating: 7/10
Comments: Yet another Nancy Meyer film about mature adults indulging in immature sexual escapades.
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