Nancy Meyers is a complete and utter hack, I say this having only seen one of her directed works, and never have, nor will ever, find any interest in seeing any of her works. She's a female Tony Gilroy, can't even do simple goals, like, say, develop interesting characters in a well crafted, simple plot full of wit and charm.
It's Complicated, with it's leads in Meryl Streep (Dull in this role), Alec Baldwin (Still not great, look, 30 Rock sucks now people), Steve Martin (Same as Baldwin) and John Kraninski (Ah, he's awesome, the character is not) should have at least had enough to get to a 3-4/10 rating. But this tale of 50-odd year old ex-husband and wife having an affair has nothing. It's hollow, poorly structured, cliched to all get out, not a single character is interesting or likeable or new, the 'jokes' relay the chick-flick audiences with poorly handled slapstick that doesn't back up with additional smarts to allow the humour to work, or the zany-ness to make the ouchie pain comedy work, instead real people falling over? No thanks. Add to that humour of saying things like penis, how frakking hysterical.
No, not one point in this 2 hour epic of a 'comedy' that, thankfully, was a free screening, did I find myself enjoying it. The film looked like it could have at the very least been a nice looking silent film, sans falling over moments, the music was so annoyingly bland it's a shame that Hans Zimmer was behind it, and so soon after the interesting work on Sherlock Holmes too.
Just.... No.
It's neither Complicated nor Competent.
1/10
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