It's Complicated

Meryl Streep stars as Jane - a restaurateur who doesn't spend a great deal of time in the restaurant because her love life is starting to explode (I guess flirting with Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin is more interesting than rolling out some croissants). She got divorced from Jake (Alec Baldwin) 10 years ago, after he fooled around with a woman half his age (Lake Bell), and just started to think about getting back into the dating game after meeting the architect, Adam (Steve Martin), called in to head up the renovations to her home.

However, it gets complicated (you knew I had to toss in that line) when Jake starts making romantic overtures to Jane, and she hops back in the sack with him.

Have Jake and Jane found the spark again?

What about nice guy Adam?

It's Complicated is a funny movie, but it's Alec Baldwin who makes it hilarious. Writer/director Nancy Meyers wants the film to be about Jane and her love travails, but Baldwin steals It's Complicated with his gleeful naughtiness, while Martin is along for the ride. Jake is the outrageous character with the shocking dialogue and simmering jealousy as Jane and Adam start to spend more time together, and Baldwin is at his best dominating every scene and keeping the audience bent over in laughter.

In the last few years, Baldwin learned how to chill out and exercise his immense comedic ability and it is on full display in It's Complicated as he plays the charming, smarmy, jealous, frightened ex-husband. He's so good, you never could imagine another actor in the role.

Meyers gives the audience a few serious, meaningful moments, especially when Jake realizes how great Jane truly is, but brings down the audience with the last 20 minutes, which is too serious. Most of It's Complicated is wacky, over-the-top, and bawdy, which makes it so entertaining and a must see comedy, so it deserves a crazier ending. Also, Meyers tries to interject a whole storyline about how her grown children react to Jane's love life, which feels like forced drama and takes away time from Baldwin, who should be in every scene in the movie.

You'll love Streep, especially as Jane keeps getting reminders of being alone, and she and Baldwin make a great couple on screen, which makes up for the extra drama at the end.

It's Complicated is rated R for some drug content and sexuality.