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It's Complicated The Rewatchables
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Most Rewatchable Scene

First hotel bar and bedroom; second hotel encounter

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Approx. transcript time · 00:30:58Read transcript
  • The opening anniversary party efficiently introduces the cast and Jane’s reaction to Agnes.
  • The first friends’ dinner is admired for convivial chemistry; Wilson and Greer prompt a discussion of great rom-com friends.
  • The hotel bar through “Home sweet home” showcases chemistry and comic deliveries.
  • The graduation dinner and confession to friends are highlighted, including the Agnes Adler line and reaction shots.
  • Other candidates include the stalked dinner date, bathtub, heart attack, getting stoned, croissants, laptop nudity and final separation.
  • One preference changes from croissants to the hotel bar and finally the second hotel encounter with the heart attack; it remains a qualified choice.
  • Another choice favors the first hotel bar and bedroom because the performers’ chemistry surpasses the Steve Martin pairing.
It's Complicated The Rewatchables
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What’s Aged the Best?

Jane’s loneliness conveyed visually; Streep’s beauty and performance; relaxed adult women; the second-wife comedy

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  • Small visual details establish Jane’s loneliness without exposition.
  • Streep’s beauty, flattering lighting and relaxed happy performance; Meyers writes successful, easygoing women rather than rigid rom-com stereotypes.
  • The hostile glamorous second wife and tiger tattoo work comically; FitzGerald is more recognizable after Succession but has little characterization here.
  • Streep still looking great without much apparent surgery is praised; her anti-surgery reputation is explicitly uncertain.
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The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film

Adam; the adult children

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  • The children’s talented performers have little to do.
  • Steve Martin’s Adam is underwritten and cannot compete with Baldwin’s charisma.
  • The adult children appear unrealistically undamaged and too invested in their divorced parents reuniting; a contrary reading that they oppose reunion is argued down.
  • The children’s group-bed scene, excessive graduation celebration, local residence and expensive bungalow are implausible; their oddness is also defended as funny and peripheral to the adult story.
It's Complicated The Rewatchables
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The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

Overrated roast chicken; more older leads; Santa Barbara’s screen weather; Reeves in Something’s Gotta Give

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  • Roast chicken is overrated, especially the ordinary home-cooked version; great restaurant or Ina Garten versions are allowed exceptions.
  • More genres should feature leads over fifty because seasoned actors and lived-in characters are compelling.
  • Santa Barbara’s relentlessly sunny screen image is challenged by coastal fog; others defend its beauty, retirement appeal and surrounding destinations.
  • Keanu Reeves is better in Something’s Gotta Give than The Matrix; the closing discussion again supports funding Meyers while questioning the reported $180 million budget.
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