The title fits.  It is complicated to put this movie in an appropriate context.  It’s not a great movie (not as fully realized as Something’s Gotta Give), but I enjoyed virtually every frame.  And why shouldn’t I?  Writer-director Nancy Meyers has made a fantasy film for women like me (and extending demographically past my mother).  I’ve never related more to Meryl Streep – even though she plays a woman at least a decade my senior – because she is so down-to-earth and together.  On the other hand, she has a picture perfect home, a fabulous business, and a garden to die for, and it must all be maintained by pixies and fairies because I never see anyone doing the work.  Even at her bakery, Streep’s character seems to just breeze by in one scene during business hours.  She also has two successful and reasonably attractive men after her, and one of them is actually worthy.  Wow!  This really is fantasy for women of a certain age.  It’s Complicated won’t make my top ten list of the year, but I’m glad to have luxuriated in it for a couple of waking hours.

Hint:  I’m working on my top ten movie list for 2009, and at present my two favorites are both directed by women.  This is unprecedented!