Movie review The Wedding Date (2005)
July 4th, 2008 by reda samir
The Wedding Date is a weak, marriage of romance and comedy that’s part My Best Friend’s Wedding and Four Weddings and a Funeral - with a pinch of Pretty Cleaning lady added in an obvious attempt to make the film go down smoothly. I’ve incessantly felt that Pretty Cleaning woman was way overrated, just it’s a masterpiece compared to this bore-fest, and as for the other two films mentioned to a higher place, they’re boundlessly stronger, smarter and more witty.
In The Wedding Date, Will and Seemliness star Debra Messing plays Kat Elllis, an unlucky-in-love woman who’s in for a nightmare of a weekend as she has no pick but to attend her annoying sister’s wedding in London. The catch is, the best man at the wedding happens to be Kat’s ex. Do it to say that some uncomfortable confrontations will be ineluctable. In an attempt to make the whole amour run more smoothly, Khat contracts with a professional escort (a male slattern - played by Dermot Mulroney) to pose as her loving, new swain. This stratagem is designed primarily to get her ex’s caprine animal, but the plan backfires when, not surprisingly, she ends up developing feelings for her rent-a-stud.
Can you say sitcom? No, no, no, wait - can you say shitcom? That’s incisively what The Wedding Day of the month is. Don’t get me wrong. Debra Messing is cute, simply she is utterly unable to carry this dull, and surprisingly distasteful mess on her back. On that point just aren’t any smarts written into this narrative whatsoever, none of those unexpected moments of good luck charm that made My Charles Herbert Best Friend’s Wedding such an unexpected cover. Not that a film of this nature inevitably to be an intellectual challenge in order to work, just when a picture offers nothing only people running around doing ridiculously stupid things, it helps matters if thither are a few laughs along the way. I laughed a total of three times during The Wedding Appointment. Then once again the row of couples sitting simply behind me were laughing-it-up from soup to kooky. I must have missed something.
Again, Messing is likable merely Mulroney is literally missing-in-action as the new human race of her affection. He can be a terrifying actor, (insure, My C. H. Best Friend’s Nuptials) but here, he is given almost nothing interesting to state or do, and is unable to inject any life into this role whatsoever. Evidently much of the blame here, falls squarely on the shoulders of the writers. Most of the secondary characters are more than annoying than likable, and that just doesn’t thin it in the earth of the romantic-comedy. This isn’t Closer (a good look at love and dysfunction) for hell sakes. This is supposed to be easy, fluffy play and it just fails miserably. To top it all off, The Wedding Date appears to be masquerading as a British people comedy. It’s almost as though the writers figured that if characters speak with a British speech pattern, that this automatically makes things suspect.
I didn’t mind that I knew exactly where this motion-picture show was headed from frame one. That’s to be expected in a film with such an obvious premise. I did expect to be entertained however, and that’s where the Wedding Date really fails. It doesn’t entertain. Unless you find a woman engaging in alcohol inspired sex, a belligerent mother constantly spurting humorless insults at her fully grownup daughters, and people lying to each other, entertaining. The Wedding ceremony Date isn’t necessarily about these scenes, but they’re the ones that stick out, and these several elements power work in another motion picture, but they don’t belong in a romantic comedy which is certainly how this plastic film is organism marketed.
I’ve got a screening of Hitch by and by on and given that it’s Valentine’s Day, I sure hope I palpate the love and rear give it a more than warm reception, because The Wedding Date is a heartbreaker, and not in a unspoilt way.
Shitcom - that about sums it up. What a waste of a Date night.
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