It’s okay to enjoy bad films. We all need escapism, particularly in the dreary winter months when summer has well and truly passed, but the excitement of Christmas is still beyond reach. Major movie studios know exactly this and so, they release movies at this time of the year for those too scared to go see Halloween Ends.
Again, it is okay to enjoy movies like these. Movies catered to a certain audience with more of an eye on money than artistic integrity. But, there has to come a point when a line is drawn, and you can just acquiesce that a movie is bad. This is essentially a rom-com, but with more of a focus on family than romance. For those who think rom-com automatically means “bad,” well, I direct your attention to Bridget Jones’s Diary and When Harry Met Sally.
Ticket to Paradise really could have been produced in any year. Apart from the characters’ ways to communicate via phone etc. and a montage at the beginning of Lily and Wren’s social media posts, there’s no real indication that this is a movie of the 2020s. No reference to the social or political landscape of the world. Barely any pop culture references to place a certain zeitgeist.
Who gets caught in the wreck, sadly, is Kaitlyn Dever. Dever has proven to be an exciting part of young Hollywood with roles in Booksmart, Beautiful Boy, and her Emmy-nominated performance in Dopesick. Lily is a particularly one-note character who seems to only be there to drive the action between Clooney and Roberts. Although the entire plot is meant to be about the parents’ embracing that she is an adult who can think for herself, the script barely grants her any agency as a character.
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