"That's debateable."
Amazon's Shotgun Wedding is very much a blandly generic action/rom-com star vehicle romp, in which a hugely irritating and unconvincing couple (Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel - who both can be fine given the right material but not here - find their idyllic Philippines island resort wedding hijacked by 'pirates' and the wedding party taken hostage right before the ceremony. Even the unstoppable Jennifer Coolidge (as Duhamel's clingy mother) with her usual delightful devil-may-care approach is underused and cannot distract from the relentless uninteresting dialogue (simply noise to fill the void) and wafer-thin plot points. Little of interest happens, the two leads feel slightly past their sell-by date for this kind of nonsense, and the film is a classic demonstration of the general rule that shouting and shrieking and running around does not improve uninteresting writing.
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