It's Complicated

Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin have winning chemistry as a divorced couple, but the film has a good first half of a movie setting up the premise of a divorced couple (married almost 20 years, divorced 10 years), Jane (Streep) and Jake (Baldwin), re-connecting over a weekend at their sons college graduation.  The fly in the ointment: Jake is married to a very young new wife, with a 5 year son from a previous relationship.   Pretty soon, Jane has become the other woman in Jake's relationship, oh the irony.

So, the film mines this premise well in the start, tossing in Adam (Steve Martin) as the somewhat shy divorced architect working on Jane's new home additions project as a possible suitor for Jane, eliciting jealous feelings from Jake.   Also toss in 3 almost grown up children, and a scene-stealing John Krasinski for some side laughs, but the film stalls in the final third of the movie, and basically lives up to its title "It's Complicated".  Plus I was sort of distracted by how Asian Steve Martin looks nowadays with the plastic surgery he's had around his eyes, they are pulled tightly toward the temples of his head (which is somewhat ironic since Jane visits a plastic surgeon for bags under her eyes, and is scared straight by what the plastic surgeon suggest, a brow lift).  But I digress...

I give it 2.75 stars, or a grade of B- just because Streep carries the film, and she knows how to get the most of the material she's been given by director/writer Nancy Meyers.