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| 2013-07-25Don’t RSVP for ‘The Big Wedding’
Martha Mukaiwa
‘The Big Wedding’
The main thing about seeing movies is not to go to them because the title reminds you of something awesome.
In case you’ve made the not so subliminal connection and planning to see ‘The Big Wedding’ (2013) because it’s three words short of ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ (2002), don’t. I say this because the implied awesome is an assumption that will cost you almost two hours of your life made dreary by a film that is just as lacklustre as its title.
In a yawn inducing clinging to type, the film features Robin Williams as an alcoholic priest, Diane Keaton as a divorcee, Robert de Niro as a protective parent, Topher Grace as a goofy virgin, Katherine Heigl as a hardass though secretly emotional professional and Amanda Seyfried on the brink of bride.
Susan Sarandon and Ben Barnes, just in from Narnia, make up the all star cast who will all launch into their same old schtick with such tautological torpor you will actually be momentarily intrigued by the gall.
The film which centres around an adopted Colombian son trying to impress his biological, conservative and Catholic mother by dressing up his comparatively heathen adoptive family for his wedding to a woman whose parents are not so undercover racists is based on a French film called ‘Mon frère se marie’ (2006).
However, the American version is probably much less exciting than a film that may or may not have featured profiteroles.
See this if you have absolutely nothing else to do in this life or the next. –
– marth__vader on Twitter or martha@namibian.com.na
In a yawn inducing clinging to type, the film features Robin Williams as an alcoholic priest, Diane Keaton as a divorcee, Robert de Niro as a protective parent, Topher Grace as a goofy virgin, Katherine Heigl as a hardass though secretly emotional professional and Amanda Seyfried on the brink of bride.
Susan Sarandon and Ben Barnes, just in from Narnia, make up the all star cast who will all launch into their same old schtick with such tautological torpor you will actually be momentarily intrigued by the gall.
The film which centres around an adopted Colombian son trying to impress his biological, conservative and Catholic mother by dressing up his comparatively heathen adoptive family for his wedding to a woman whose parents are not so undercover racists is based on a French film called ‘Mon frère se marie’ (2006).
However, the American version is probably much less exciting than a film that may or may not have featured profiteroles.
See this if you have absolutely nothing else to do in this life or the next. –
– marth__vader on Twitter or martha@namibian.com.na
