Review of The Big Wedding (2013) by Chani R — 15 Aug 2013

(1 Star) You couldn't PAY me to care for any of these rich white people problems. There is a total non-conflict in this unnecessary movie and you don't care for anyone. The humor is somehow flat and extraneously crude... it's like watching a PG movie with an occasional F-bomb. There are farcical elements that feel too contrived and forced.

Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton are divorced, but they're RomCom-divorced, meaning they can still be quirky and love each other without being married. Ben Barnes, who is De Niro's adopted son from Columbia, is getting married to Amanda Seyfried. His birth mother is a devout Catholic, meaning she believes divorced people are evil and impure and worse than Hitler (as a Catholic, I could argue that's not how we think, but whatever). So Barnes tells his birth mother that De Niro and Keaton never divorced so she can attend the wedding. WHY?!?! That's not going to stop you from getting married! And you're going to have to keep the lie up for the rest of your life unless you plan on Columbia mom kicking the bucket immediately after the nuptials. It's always great to start your relationship on a huge and idiotic lie. Oh, and Katherine Heigl plays another shrill harpy.

Look, I know I'm not the target demographic for The Big Wedding, but it's repulsive to everybody. It's not funny, it's weird, it's idiotic, it's generic, and everyone's talent is wasted.