"You are the dummy who elected me to Office!"
This film seems to divide viewers strongly. For me, it is clearly unable to decide whether it is a comedy (severely underpowered) or a drama (paper-thin characters and relentlessly predictable), making Table 19 a very underwhelming experience. It has one good running gag (thank you, Lisa Kudrow) and one effective moment of character self-realisation (thank you, Wyatt Russell), but largely numbing pacing and tumbleweeds-a-rolling mean that the reasonable cast struggles - even the reliably emotionally-open Anna Kendrick at times finds it hard to land the emotion. There is a neat concept here of trying to turn the spotlight on the seemingly least significant guests at a wedding, but by sticking too closely to broad or predictable stereotypes and a final confused 'message' that really is perplexing, Table 19 does not really engage.
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