Review of The Big Wedding (2013) by Sol C — 13 May 2013

I felt like I have seen this type of movie before and done much better than this. It reminded me of movies like Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Death At A Funeral, Cousins, and License to Wed. It felt like a lot of scenes in the movie were copies of other scenes from other movies. Example, the dinner table scene with Topher Grace reminded me of the dinner scene in the movie the Wedding Crashers with Vincen Vaughn. The film is predictable. It felt like a bad sitcom episode. It could have been much funnier and original. The wedding sequence in my opinion had the most laughs.

I felt like a lot of these actors have played these characters before, especially De Niro and Keaton. Robin Williams is playing the same kind of priest he played in License to Wed. Katherine Heigl seems like she is constantly the same in each role she plays, meaning no range. Ben Barnes, Topher Grace, Amanda Seyfried, and Christine Ebersole are great in their roles.

Overall, this film could have been much better. I would have liked to have seen Frank Oz direct it.