Trailer Watch: Julia Roberts & George Clooney Reunite As Ex-es In Ticket To Paradise, The Rom-Com Roberts Once Joked Is “Probably Going To Be Terrible”

Robert Clooney and Julia Robert are back together on screen!

Universal Pictures has dropped the trailer for Ticket to Paradise, the new rom-com reuniting the Ocean’s Eleven stars as former spouses on their way to Bali (shot on location in Queensland, Australia, though) to stop their daughter (Booksmart’s Kaitlyn Dever) from marrying a local.

Directed by OL Parker (Mama Mia! Here We Go Again, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Ticket to Paradise is Roberts’ first rom-com since 2001’s America’s Sweethearts. Besides the Ocean’s trilogy, Clooney and Robert also appeared together in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Money Monster.

The trailer shows the ex-es trading barbs as they reluctantly join forces to stop their daughter’s wedding. At two minutes and 40 seconds (!) long, the trailer might have shown a bit too much of the movie, from punchlines to plot revelations. It isn’t enough that it shows the lead characters hiding the rings but it also has to reveal the daughter finding out that they hid them. Good job on the spoilers, Universal!

Why the desperation to impress? Does it have anything to do with Roberts’ Variety interview where she joked(?) that Ticket to Paradise might be a dud.

When asked about the movie, Roberts said, “It is a romantic comedy. [Clooney] plays my ex-husband. I think it’s so funny and George is so funny and George and I together, it’s probably going to be terrible because there’s too much potential for it to be great, it’ll just implode on it itself. I think that should be the commercial for the movie. ‘It’s probably going to be terrible.’ I’m so glad my publicist is on a plane right now.”

We’ll know for sure when Ticket to Paradise opens in Singapore cinemas on Sept 15. Watch the trailer here: