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Panic groom.
For all its flaws, its gaps in logic, its dud script and the safe and easy route it takes to the end credits, this bromantic comedy isn’t bad enough to hate. In fact, it’s so lightweight it’s almost impossible to remember an hour after seeing it, never mind long enough to brew up verbal vitriol.
He finds Jimmy, who hires a bunch of out-of-work actors with ‘funny’ quirks (one stutters, one is a sex offender, etc) to be his motley crew of pals, and after the requisite disastrous family dinners, the gang attempts to pull it all together and give Harris the best/worst wedding money can buy.
First-time director Jeremy Garelick pours enough ’80s comedy clichés into the proceedings that it begins to feel more like a comfortable old sweater than a movie. Of course, for the film to work, you have to vault right over the concept that a groom’s fiancée wouldn’t know who his best friend is – or anyone he’s close to, for that matter. But it’s really not worth worrying about in a film this throwaway.
VERDICT: The predictable script lulls you into laughing at some very tired gags, but at least Hart refrains from screaming through the whole thing.
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