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Since its release, this film has received huge criticism from reviewers that keep saying that this is 'just another romantic comedy' and, to be honest, I have to agree with them. There were some brilliant moments but there were some others that I just didn't like. For example, the film unfortunately shows that the sex between the two aging people is more important with their personal lives as in like how they feel about the situations they've got themselves into. Also, seeing Alec Baldwin almost completely naked really put me off it as well! (haha). Good qualities, however, were that I think the characters (well of what we knew of them anyway) were good.
When attending their son's college graduation, a couple reignites the spark in their relationship...but the complicated fact is they're divorced and he's remarried and she has another man in her life who wants her. Over the years, Meryl Streep keeps on starring in romantic-comedies and it is always good to see her in one. Where I appreciate her in this genre is that she plays different kinds of characters so brilliantly in different life situations and that is something that you can hardly get with romantic-comedies. I have thought this for a very long time but Meryl Streep really is a very striking woman for her age and I guess Jane's character was made for Streep to portray. I wouldn't really call myself a fan of Alec Baldwin but I wouldn't call him a bad actor either. However, in It's Complicated he plays a character that I hadn't really seen him in before and I don't think it suited him that well because its like he was playing that really charming and seductive kind of character so I just don't think that suited Alec Baldwin at all. Steve Martin plays a serious character? Wow! He actually did a great job. I must admit that the characters do demonstrate quite well of some real-life situations with living separately from someone after being married to them for over a decade. I mean, it is mad to go back with someone after being divorced for 10 years especially when one is already remarried to someone younger!
Nancy Meyers is a director who just sticks to romantic-comedies. I think that most directors of romantic-comedies are like these too seeing as they pretty much always connect. As I said earlier in the review, that Nancy this time focuses on the sex between the couple than how they are feeling and their normal lives. The script is almost like almost the same as every script in romantic-comedy: soppy, sometimes quite cheesy and sometimes very original.
Overall, It's Complicated is just another romantic-comedy that ultimately focuses on the sex rather than the development of the characters and the message it tries to send. It is more for middle-aged people and girls than for men, to be honest.
6/10
