Ticket to Paradise * * * ½

To be honest I quite enjoyed this rather predictable film.  The spark between George Clooney and Julia Roberts is good as they make the most of their savage, and very funny lines. 

George and Julia in a Bali like I've never seen.

They are a couple who have been separated for twenty years and to this day cannot abide one the other. They have a 20 odd year old daughter who has spent a lifetime bouncing between the two of them. Now she is graduating, and after that going to Bali for a holiday with her best mate.  

On the first in day in Bali she falls in love with a local and promptly decides to abandon her prescribed future as a lawyer and work alongside him as a seaweed farmer for the rest of her life.  

I think I would too if it were real. Beautiful location, easy life, perfect weather, but of course its all  romanticised.  

Anyway, she tells Mum and Dad of her intentions and despite their animosity for each other they both turn up in Bali to give their daughter a wake up call.  To talk her out of it they realise they are going to have to put on a united front, which won't be easy for them.  But they give it a go.

Thus the hi-jinx commences with them attempting to sabotage the wedding by various means. It's ridiculous but quite charming, reminding me of films from the forties - and there is nothing wrong with that.