Saturday, 1 June 2013

FILM: The Big Wedding (dir: Justin Zackham, 2013)

"Hell it is, then."

The best aspect of watching The Big Wedding is that Lionsgate's flashy new ident at the start is quite impressive in a Universal way.  The film itself features impossible characters in nonsensical situations behaving completely unrealistically, with a terrific cast also having to contend with some quite horrible dialogue.  The tumbleweed store has been cleared out for this movie judging by the number of 'funny' lines that crash and burn, no predictable stone has been left unturned, and the actual end wedding itself is less witty farce than forced car-crash scripting.   Only Susan Sarandon's considerable talent proves indestructible here in an astonishingly disappointing film.

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