"It's complicated", and funny.

Rating: 7/10 (31 December 2016)

The trailer made it appear as though the plot is about George Clooney's character being kidnapped, and held for ransom, and while that does happen in this movie, it is only one of many different plots playing out here, as we see the lunacy that goes on behind the scenes, in this 1950s backlot.
Not so much a plot, more of just a series of vignettes making fun of the various different stereotypes and tropes of old Hollywood: America's sweetheart is, behind the scenes, an amusingly slutty little number, with a pronounced Brooklyn accent. The manliest men in a Navy film are closeted gay men. Communists are running everything behind the scenes, and kidnap George Clooney to prove a point. All the popular (at that time) genres are represented, the musical, the biblical epic, the pro-American war film. Good and evil twin sister newspaper reporters are out to get the dirt on all of them.
Basically everyone in this film just has a cameo, or an extended cameo, as characters appear and disappear almost constantly.
I enjoyed this one, but it could have benefited from a bit of editing, as it runs about fifteen minutes too long.