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It's Complicated

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 30 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Romance
Written by: Nancy Meyers
Directed by: Nancy Meyers
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 25, 2009
DVD: April 27, 2010
Running Time: minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for some drug content and sexuality
Starring Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, John Krasinski, and Lake Bell
Jane is the mother of three grown kids, owns a thriving Santa Barbara bakery/restaurant and has—after a decade of divorce—an amicable relationship with her ex-husband, attorney Jake. But when Jane and Jake find themselves out of town for their son’s college graduation, things start to get complicated. An innocent meal together turns into the unimaginable—an affair. With Jake remarried to the much younger Agness, Jane is now, of all things, the other woman. Caught in the middle of their renewed romance is Adam, an architect hired to remodel Jane's kitchen. Healing from a divorce of his own, Adam starts to fall for Jane, but soon realizes he's become part of a love triangle. Should Jane and Jake move on with their lives, or is love truly lovelier the second time around? It's... complicated. (Universal Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
The romantic comedy about a divorced couple having an affair manages to be both light on its feet and heavy enough to deliver something of a message.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Both actors are a lot better than this material requires – or deserves.
Read Full Review >New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott
The result: a fun and sweet romantic comedy that lands comfortably on the smart side of vacant, along the way offering a pleasant and satisfying holiday diversion for the grown-ups in the room.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
It's Complicated isn’t: It’s pretty simple. It’s simply a good time.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Ends up being one of the end-year's best sources of pure entertainment. And for those who believe laughter is the best medicine, there's more than a bellyful or two to be found here.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Streep is in movie star mode, and she’s irresistible. But Baldwin achieves something not many men have been able to with Streep: You notice him.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Funny even when it relies heavily on age-old, old-age gags.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
I enjoyed the spectacle of middle-aged people making spectacles of themselves.
Read Full Review >Slate Dana Stevens
Just beneath this movie's gleaming high-end surfaces beats the heart of a classic screwball comedy.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The comedy approaches true hilarity only when Meyers resorts to the surefire gimmick of having the oldsters get massively stoned at a party, though Streep's dilemma is handled well enough for the movie to accumulate some gravitas as it nears the two-hour mark.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
What Meyers doesn't do is take chances. She sticks to formula and predictability. In "Complicated," this is as much a matter of casting as writing.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
It’s Complicated is the sort of “mature” character piece the French do regularly and better (and without the need for quotation marks around “mature”), but the cast at least helps relieve some of the tidiness that belies the title.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
It's Complicated is middle-aged porn, the specialty of Meyers, who also set ladies and interior decorators drooling over homes and gardens in 2006's “The Holiday.”
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
You don't have to feel guilty for lapping up this froth. Just don't expect nourishment.
Read Full Review >St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams
It's funny but (sorry, ladies) unrealistic that Jake continuously sneaks away from his young wife to canoodle with Jane. Baldwin is a blast, but the role requires him to indulge in indignities such as a naked webcam conversation.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
It's Complicated is basically "Avatar" for women of a certain age, with blond highlights replacing blue skin.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
The movie's anchored by a strong lead performance and a steady sense of humor.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli
The sum is a comedy that starts out slow and talky, picks up speed - and sexiness, and hysterics - somewhere in the middle, then drags to a stop when everyone starts confessing their feeeelings.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
This is wish-fulfilment fantasy, where the laughs lie in sorting out an embarrassment of riches.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey
The problem with It's Complicated, a romantic comedy about the menopausal crowd starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, is that it's not nearly complicated enough.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Baldwin and Streep do make the most of the situation, and their sparky chemistry provides the only real draw.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
Meyers has a good feel for contemporary comedy; it’s reality, however, that slips through her grasp.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
It's Complicated is vacuous overall, although attractively packaged.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
After listening to Jane and Jake talk it out in the interminable process of working it out—they explore their relationship as exhaustively, and exhaustingly, as any kids on Facebook—I found myself wishing for more shallows and fewer depths.
Read Full Review >Empire Helen O'Hara
Like all Meyers’ films, it’s more about interior design porn than real human emotions and drags on for far too long. Still, Streep, Krasinski and Baldwin are so good, they almost make it work. Almost.
Read Full Review >Time Out New York Nick Schager
It’s bad enough that Nancy Meyer’s latest conventional romcom is blessed with a title so bluntly unimaginative as to seem facetious; the rub is that it’s not even a truthful assessment.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
Cute and clever though the plot may be, everything is played out in the broadest possible terms without an iota of nuance or subtlety.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Scott Foundas
Watching this garish fiasco, I found it mildly depressing to see Streep hurdling through this gauntlet of strained whimsy, her every toothy smile and throaty chortle more affected than Sophie Zawistowski's Polish accent.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 4.7 (out of 10) based on 76 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
James H gave it a7:
Meryl Streep is magnificent, as she always is. Alec Baldwin is wonderfully cast and gives a memorable performance. Steve Martin is effective in a subdued role. It’s very enjoyable, a fresh story and great entertainment. Very well written, funny and touching. I love that it wasn't predictable, I really didn't know how it was going to end. Great job.
gina t gave it a0:
This is the most absurdly vacuous and unfunny comedy I've seen in decades -- a ridiculous, irritating, unrealistic piece of fluff fantasy for middle-aged women. I couldn't believe that Meryl Streep would participate. I've always loved her but by the end of the film, I was so annoyed by the near-continous tinkle of her laughter -- before and after her every line, it seems -- that I started to hate her. Don't see it, don't rent it, don't order it on Instant Play or Netflix, don't look at the movie posters. It sucks like few films have ever sucked before.
Davey gave it a2:
If you liked Sex and the City you might like this miserable bore. Otherwise, it's a terrible waste of acting talent. One funny scene with a laptop computer in a bedroom is what gets the movie a 2 instead of a 0. Basically it's about a manipulative, whiny, self-obsessed lawyer repeatedly conning a sappy ex into giving him her time and yet another chance. The guy is too much of a total jerk to care about and the wife is too much of a fool. Top it off with adult offspring who behave like 12-year-olds and you've got a film to avoid like the plague.
robert i gave it a6:
A romp that you know will not end somewhere over the rainbow, but we play along with the fiction, if just to watch Streep and Baldwin lighting up the screen as mature adults. Love hurts.
Victor M gave it a6:
I went to see this expecting worse, but was pleasantly surprised. A very enjoyable film, excellent if clownish performances. The kids mug a lot, the locations so upscale as to be off-putting, no one has financial worries, hardly a trace of minorities. On the other hand, the film allows late-middle-aged people with their wrinkles, cardiac disorders, and flab to shine and behave like teenagers all over again. On this note a little optimism.
Kay W. gave it a10:
This is the funniest movie I have seen in years (maybe ever)! Maybe it's because I grew up in the 60's, but I haven't laughed so much at a movie in years.
German N gave it a3:
Below average movie.
