The fatal flaw in this film for me is how these people managed to make a family with each other at all. I get Jesse leaving his wife for her. I see these two people lasting maybe two years. The idea that Celine would drop everything to have twins and then live the next seven years being a mother and having a resentment over it that doesn't boil over until the last night of their stay in Greece... that I don't buy. She apparently lived the first couple of years in America with Jesse so he could be near his son... that I also don't buy. If she were the sacrificing type, the type to drop it all for love, she would've done it at the end of the first film. Is she so easily charmed by Jesse's pretentious boyishness? Call me a cynic, these characters are just too complete for me to see them shoeboxed into a marriage-esque relationship. This film feels like a fantasy dream just before someone, in the near-morning hours, starts realizing it's another damn day of real normal boring life about to begin again.
That said, there are some lovely moments. In between Celine and Jesse playing the parts of lovers torn apart by years of resentment, their more playful moments of banter are effortless, genuine, and why we loved the first two films. But it's those inbetween effortless moments that make even the well-written other moments feel put on.
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