Published: December 6th, 2007 07:40 AM
Last Modified: December 16th, 2007 02:16 AM
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In "Two Tickets to Paradise," three guys on the verge of 40 begin to realize all the best things in their lives happened before they were 20. A spontaneous road trip adventure gives them a chance to try to balance the ledger. The film shows at 8:30 p.m. today at Fireweed Theatre.
"Two Tickets to Paradise" had every opportunity to be what "Wild Hogs" wasn't: a thoughtful take on the midlife crisis male bonding road-trip comedy.
Perhaps that genre simply doesn't lend itself to thoughtfulness, although this film tries: Mark (John C. McGinley) has a gambling problem. Jason (Paul Hipp) works at Office Max and can't get no respect. And McGriff (D.B. Sweeney, who co-wrote, directed and produced the film) is an aging rocker who has a big fan in his wife's lover.
The guys agree over beers to solve their problems by driving to Florida for the championship bowl game. Over more beers, they discuss everything from whether darts is a sport to whether Vanna White can be called "the greatest letter turner of all time" when she's the only letter turner of all time, to whether they should commit suicide by jumping off a bridge. (They decide against it because they still have beer left.)
For a movie filled with so much witty banter, it's remarkably nonwitty.
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