George Clooney and Julia Roberts play two warring divorcees who bury the hatchet to break up their daughter's engagement in Ticket to Paradise.
Simon Morris's thing about this frothy romcom is the performance of talented young actor Kaitlyn Drever.
It's been a while since we've seen George Clooney on the big screen. He pops up occasionally at celebrity events and on coffee commercials, but that's about it.
His friend and frequent co-star Julia Roberts has done some TV this year, but not much else until this.
Frothy romcoms featuring middle-aged stars may be rare in the States, but they're a lot more common in the UK.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Mamma Mia were both written and directed by Ol Parker, who also made Ticket to Paradise.
In it, George and Julia play the divorced parents of Lily who has run off to Bali and fallen in love with a local seaweed farmer called Gede.
Mum and Dad are incensed. The only thing they can agree on is that they have to stop this.
So, in between bickering, they decide that - by hook or by crook - they'll prise Lily out of the clutches of that darn seaweed farmer.
This not being a Ken Loach class-war romcom, it should be pointed out that Gede isn't your average seaweed farmer. Turns out seaweed is a growth industry in Indonesia, and he and his family are in fact crazy rich seaweed farmers.
So what's the problem?
That phrase - "what's the problem?" - is at the heart of every romcom ever made, of course. Boy meets girl is easy, but you've got to keep them apart if you don't want the movie to be over in five minutes.
There have to be problems. And of course we're not talking about Lily and Gede here. Who are the stars of Ticket to Paradise?
We know from the start it's going to be about George and Julia. And the standard romcom problem, like this, is the couple think they hate each other.
We, the audience, fall in love with them instantly, but they take... well, as long as a movie to finally realise they were meant for each other.
We were crazy fools... kiss... fade to black. Which is what Ticket to Paradise thinks it's doing.
David and Georgia may be played by Clooney and Roberts but otherwise they're rather hard to love.
He's a bit of a jerk, all passive aggression and no friends. She's almost worse - a control-freak businessperson with a younger boyfriend she bullies incessantly.
But no. We have to watch George and Julia tie themselves in knots trying to scupper the young folks - hardly an endearing storyline - before they come to the sort-of happy ending.
That's right, they couldn't even get that right.
On the plus side, George and Julia are old pros and turn up the charm to disguise the story's failings.
The trouble is that romcoms have fallen out of fashion, so people have rather forgotten how to do them. What should be playful and lighter than air is now hard work and heavy going.
However there's still clearly an untapped demand - hence the success of the various Mamma Mias, Marigold Hotels and, for all I know, Tickets to Paradise.
One thing I did like was the casting of American actress Kaitlyn Dever as Lily. After brilliantly tragic performances in two TV series - Unbelievable and Dopesick - it was so nice to see her well-dressed, well-fed and happy for a change.
If there were any justice, and Hollywood was still in the star-making business, someone as versatile, talented and endearing as Kaitlyn would be at the top of their to-do list.
Sadly, when it comes to stardom, justice rarely comes into it. But it won't stop me crossing my fingers anyway.
