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SYNOPSIS:
After losing the woman of his dreams, Anderson is convinced
he'll never fall in love again. But at the urging of his best
friend, he spontaneously proposes to a dissatisfied waitress
named Katie and an innocent dare evolves into the kind of
love that both have been looking for all along..
MOVIE
REVIEW
This ought to be the worst movie I watched this year.
I
know I shouldn’t begin a review with such unenthusiastic
remark but let me share with you what’s seriously wrong
with "Wedding Daze".
While
Nicholas Cage offers to share part of his lottery ticket to
a waitress in "It Could Happen to You", Jason Biggs
spontaneously propose to the waitress here. Biggs renowned
for shagging a pie plays Anderson, a guy who lost his beloved
fiancée (he calls her fiancée but technically
she didn’t really say yes) and couldn’t really
get over her even after a year. Out of exasperation during
a conversation with his best friend, he randomly proposes
to a waitress named Katie (Isla Fisher) and to his surprise,
the poor girl actually agrees to it.
As
the story goes, it happens that Katie is at a crossroad in
her relationship and Anderson might be the person to get her
out of it. Now if the story sticks to the two strangers from
getting to know each other to breaking up and to getting back
again. I wouldn’t have mind that much at least it’s
still average rom-com material. But director/writer Michael
Ian Black apparently saw a different light to the story. Thinking
that it will squeeze in the laughs, Black threw in lots of
weird characters by weird I mean really weird characters.
There’s
Katie’s mum who still go sex-crazy over her former husband,
Smitty (Joe Pantoliano from The Matrix) and there are Anderson’s
parents who performed sexual acts on each other without the
story calling for it. Katie’s friend by the named of
Matador who dreams of working in the circus and Katie’s
stepdad who makes Jews theme toys in the basement.
You
may ask what’s going on. Isn’t the story about
Anderson and Katie? Why is it detouring into weirdo territory?
I even feel embarrassed talking about the gang taking an unnecessary
road trip to Atlantic just to get married in a supposed chapel
where Katie’s parents married years ago.
This
is an absurd movie that hardly qualifies as a romance and
tries too hard to be funny. The 1.5 stars are for the courage
displayed by the cast for signing up on this project.
SPECIAL FEATURES :
This Code 3 disc contains no special features.
AUDIO/VISUAL:
The
video transfer is respectable while the DVD comes equipped
with Dolby Digital 2.0 with both English & Chinese subtitles.
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by Linus Tee
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