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Well there you have it, it is SO NOT a Ticket to Paradise!<\/p>\n

As much as I would have liked to like\/love\/been enthralled by this Clooney and Roberts Rom-Com, it fell short on almost every level.<\/p>\n

Their characters were, IMHO, very shallow versions of those in their “Oceans” movies which were much more entertaining and compelling.<\/p>\n

I am left wondering if this was a foray into the old Laurence Olivier genre of “let’s just do it for the money and to hell with the quality?”<\/p>\n

Cute kids plot but almost buried by the incessant intervention of the Clooney\/Roberts subplot. Way over played and not done very well; so transparent that one could easily laugh at it.<\/p>\n

Some very cute scenes, and some, but not very much witty dialogue. Overall, no real substance. On a very snarky note, what were they thinking?<\/p>\n

Locale visuals were gorgeous but then, so were those in Lethal Weapon and Die Hard.<\/p>\n

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