- Release Date: July 22, 2008
- Publisher: First Look Studios
- Price: $16.99 on Amazon.com
- Rating: R (language including crude sexual references and some drug use)
- Run Time: 91 minutes
- Bonus Features: Deleted Scenes, Outtakes, Commentary with D.B. Sweeney
- Genre: Comedy
- Buy It on Amazon.com
“Two Tickets to Paradise” is your prototypical average movie. It doesn’t do anything particularly good or bad and most of it is quite boring. There are a few short entertaining bits but it really isn’t worth going through 91 minutes just for those few moments.
In the film, three high school buddies who appeared to have everything going for them end up stuck in ordinary lives when they hit their mid-life crisis. To make matters worse, two of the three suddenly have marital problems. The three friends break free from their ordinary lives by embarking on a cross-country road trip to a college football championship game. Unsurprisingly, things don’t go as planned.
The biggest problem with the film is that even though it is supposed to be a comedy, there is really no humor in it at all. This could be because I’m not in the target audience (I’m 22 and the film is meant for people in their late 30’s or early 40’s) but I doubt it. The movie is actually one of the more somber films I’ve seen in awhile. Since comedies aren’t exactly supposed to be sad, this definitely isn’t a good thing.
The three main actors (John C. McGinley from “Scrubs,” D.B. Sweeney, and Paul Hipp) do a solid job but none are impressive. Other than a few short scenes from Moira Kelly and Ed Harris, there really aren’t any other key actors. Video quality isn’t the best but it is passable for a comedy. There are no problems with the audio.
As for extras, there isn’t a whole lot offered. The commentary with D.B. Sweeney is fine if you liked the film but the deleted scenes and outtakes aren’t much.
The only people I would recommend “Two Tickets to Paradise” to would be men in their late 30’s or early 40’s and even then I would suggest that they rent before buying. The film just isn’t funny and is actually more sad than anything.
