Review of The Wedding Ringer (2015) by Stephen P — 13 Apr 2015

The Wedding Ringer is a comedy starring the genres most featured star right now Kevin Hart alongside Josh Gad. This movie has an premise that at first seems pretty interesting and does have the potential to be very funny if done right. Unfortunately this movie was not as funny as I had hoped it would be but it definitely had its positives that really saved this movie for me. I really really like the first half of this movie, up until the movie finishes introducing the extended cast I was laughing a lot and was really invested in the plot. But then something drastically changes and for the last half of the film I struggled to enjoy it anywhere near as much as the first half. The second half did have its moments but there were too few and it failed to make the most of Josh Gad and Kevin Harts chemistry. The overall plot was pretty straight forward, and by about half way you can guess how the rest of the movie is going to play out and it does, but the jokes were there to distract us right? Well not exactly. What I noticed is that the writers failed to have a really good blend of plot and comedy, this movie for the most part either focuses almost completely on the jokes or on furthering the plot and that means some very good parts, but also some very boring parts.

The performances were good, most notably Kevin Hart and Josh Gad, I guess Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting also was good but she wasn't really given a whole lot to do other than be the Fiancé. The extended cast of groomsmen are pretty much a bunch of stereotypes and that is how you remember them as they are introduced in 2 minutes and then they move on. So performance wise this movie did good. I will say that the last line of the film left me laughing for a little while afterwards so that definitely helped. Unfortunately this movie couldn't keep up the comedy it had throughout the first half for the entire film but what it had was enough to get me through it pretty entertained. - 6.2.

After watching the film I would have loved this movie to focus more on Kevin Hart's character moving from wedding to wedding as oppose to focusing on just Josh Gad and his wedding. Just my opinion on what I think would have made the film a lot better.