Reviews
The Independent on Sunday
Nicholas Barber
"Written and directed by Nancy Meyers (Something's Gotta Give, The Holiday), the film is the soft, warm, doughy comfort food it was no doubt intended to be. The screenplay is jovial; the actors twinkle and Mamma Mia! fans should love it. But there's one overriding problem. I won't be the first critic to say this, or even the hundredth, but It's Complicated isn't complicated enough."
10/01/2010
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The Daily Mail
Chris Tookey
"About as close to a French sex comedy as a Hollywood feelgood flick is likely to get, It's Complicated is the best middle-aged romcom since Julie & Julia. If you loved Streep in that or Mamma Mia!, you're also going to like her a lot in this."
08/01/2010
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The Observer
Philip French
"The film is lightweight, likable, rather overlong and a piece of wish-fulfilment."
10/01/2010
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The Daily Telegraph
Tim Robey
"Yes, the plot groans and creaks, and it's padded out with needless scenes of Meryl visiting her shrink and apologising to her three flaxen-haired children. No one's calling it great art. But as an indulgent confection, it's more filling and less embarrassing than we had any right to expect."
07/01/2010
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The Times
Tom Charity
"Meyers lays on the lifestyle porn a bit thick, but the playing from Streep and a proudly pot-bellied Baldwin is delicious."
09/01/2010
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Time Out
Tom Huddleston
"Baldwin has terrific chemistry with Streep: the pair seem to be having a genuinely hilarious time getting drunk and naked together – not that Jane will do that with the lights on. The script explores female insecurities and doesn’t shy away from the realities of middle-aged sex: Jake proudly displays his hairy beer belly on several occasions."
05/01/2010
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The Times
Kevin Maher
"It’s Complicated is the kind of wholesome adult-oriented entertainment that once formed the bedrock of classical Hollywood. The director Nancy Meyers (What Women Want) again proves herself the true descendant of George Cukor and Preston Sturges by producing perfectly polished romantic comedy with a twist — the twist here, of course, is that the paramours are deep into middle age."
08/01/2010
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The Sunday Times
Cosmo Landesman
"The script is formulaic and the characters are one-dimensional; Jake’s young wife (Lake Bell) is a complete monster. The film is saved by the performances of the two leads. Despite Streep’s tendency to explode into laughter all the time, she and Baldwin are a joy to watch."
10/01/2010
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The Financial Times
Nigel Andrews
"Meryl Streep, God bless her. Will she ever stop acting? Let’s hope not. It’s Complicated () is another Streepshow, like Mamma Mia, that illustrates the power and willingness of Hollywood’s best actress to slough inhibitions like Salome’s veils."
07/01/2009
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The Guardian
Peter Bradshaw
"For me, Meyers's romcoms have been unwatchable because of the utter fakeness of their leading players: but I must confess, Baldwin and Streep do have that most over-analysed thing, "chemistry", and their marriage and sudden Indian summer of forbidden sex is weirdly believable – as unbelievable as that sounds. Not that there aren't annoying things in it. Meryl's new life-accepting-life-affirming laugh – her "Mamma Mia" laugh – is grating. But this is fun."
07/01/2010
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Empire Magazine
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."
10/01/2010
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The Independent
Anthony Quinn
"Nancy Meyers, who has made two of my least favourite movies of all time in What Women Want and The Holiday, adds to her charge-sheet with this egregiously stupid comedy of middle-aged romance."
08/01/2010
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