It's Complicated Review

Nancy Meyers is just better than most of her romantic comedy writer counterparts. She's a step above the rest and it shows in "It's Complicated." That's not to say that i loved the film or anything but the romantic comedy genre has become a dull and frankly boring genre with a bunch of mediocre to bad writers in it. It seems to me that if you are a shitty hollywood writer, you will either write a horror movie or a romantic comedy. I happen to love the horror genre but i hate about 80 percent of horror films. It's just unfortunate that all the best writers tend to stay away from horror and it's pretty much the same way with romantic comedies.

I liked "Something's gotta give" and i had high hopes for this one. While it's not as good as "something's gotta give" it is a good premise with some good writing and fantastic acting. Meryl Streep shows that you can take a decent script and make it fantastic at some points. Alec Baldwin was also very good. Of course you know everything that going to happen before it even does but you don't see a romantic comedy to be surprised do you?

I would have to say i laughed twice during the movie at most. The humor is definitely geared towards women and particularly woman over the age of 40. You can see why i didn't laugh much. But it's a good date movie and it's better than most of the garbage that's in this genre so i would recommend on that level. If you want to see a date movie then check it out.

5 out 10.