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It's Complicated

The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film

Adam; the adult children

In the discussion (4)
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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.