Wedding Daze (2006) Review

"Wedding Daze" reviews

Movie

Wedding Daze

Author

anonymous

Date reviewed

2007-05-25 15:00:53

Provider

MRIB

Review

A comedy about love at first sight, Wedding Daze is more about relationships than nuptials.

Directed by Michael Ian Black and starring Jason Biggs - still best remembered as the teen who did unspeakable things to an apple pie in American Pie - and upcoming Wedding Crashers starlet Isla Fisher, Wedding Daze tries to be more 'com' than 'rom'.

The film opens with Anderson (Biggs) inadvertently killing his dream girl with an unfortunate marriage proposal (involving a skimpy cupid outfit and heart failure in a crowded restaurant). Fast forward one year, and Anderson is a sad loner, moping around his flat convinced he'll never fall in love again. But at the urging of his best friend Ted (Michael Weston) Anderson spontaneously proposes to a waitress named Katie (Fisher). Little does he know that Katie is already facing a stable but passionless marriage with her boyfriend William - whom her mother Lois calls the "perfect orthodontist" - who proposed to her the night before. So instead of laughing, Katie says yes.

An innocent dare turns into a comic romp of courtship, meeting the parents (a highlight being the most embarrassing game of charades ever), shaking off ex-lovers and finally a slapstick dash to tie the knot in Vegas.

The plot is implausible in parts and Biggs and Fisher lack chemistry, but these faults are compensated for by a good supporting cast. Kooky characters such as Katie's jailbird father Smitty (Joe Pantoliano) and wannabe-circus-folk best friends Matador and Jane (Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Heather Goldenhersh) provide a few laughs, while Andersons sex-mad, net-curtain-twitching parents Betsy and Lyle (Margo Martindale and Edward Herrmann) dispense with some of the best lines in the film.

In terms of belly laughs, it's not a patch on either American Pie or Wedding Crashers, but Wedding Daze is a harmless romcom that certainly sets up the ludicrously energetic Fisher for greater things.

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