As part of my Friday ritual, I went to see a film. I've already seen The Simpsons, Transformers and Die Hard 4.0 so this seemed like the next best one on offer that I had the time to watch.
Starring: Robin Williams and Mandy Moore.
Robin Williams stars as the intrusive Reverend Frank who does not just simply allow anybody to become husband and wife in his chruch. Much like Robert De Niro's "Jack Burns" character from Meet the parents and its sequel, Frank places his couples through a series of tests to see if they have the strength to be a lasting couple. Sadie Jones (played by Mandy Moore) and Ben Murphy (John Krasinski) are two lovers who plan on getting married in the house of Frank. Accordingly, they face their tests.
At this point, the scene is set for a great comedy. There's some very likable characters in this movie with a great story, the trouble is, it's just not funny. This type of film has been done before and better, namely in
Meet the parents. The movie does tend to follow a formular but does have some funny moments, just not enough.
License to wed is quite light. Robin Williams generally tends to work with his usual repertoire of charcter quirks and doesn't do much to surprise the audience. When the movie attempts to be funny, it does so at the expense of realism. While comedy is meant to be a deviation from serious, conventional modes of life, it still needs to do it with an element of accuracy. Given the situation that the characters are placed it, it doesn't succeed on this note either.
However, the film is enjoyable and perhaps not worthy of the berating it is receiving from critics. It's a tough film to rate. On the one hand, it fails its intended purpose, Comedy, in lacking biting or original humour. But the film does offer some characters to enjoy with a matching story to suit. Definitely not 4 or 5 star material but certainly worth more than 1.
2.5/5
Starring: Robin Williams and Mandy Moore.
Robin Williams stars as the intrusive Reverend Frank who does not just simply allow anybody to become husband and wife in his chruch. Much like Robert De Niro's "Jack Burns" character from Meet the parents and its sequel, Frank places his couples through a series of tests to see if they have the strength to be a lasting couple. Sadie Jones (played by Mandy Moore) and Ben Murphy (John Krasinski) are two lovers who plan on getting married in the house of Frank. Accordingly, they face their tests.
At this point, the scene is set for a great comedy. There's some very likable characters in this movie with a great story, the trouble is, it's just not funny. This type of film has been done before and better, namely in
Meet the parents. The movie does tend to follow a formular but does have some funny moments, just not enough.
License to wed is quite light. Robin Williams generally tends to work with his usual repertoire of charcter quirks and doesn't do much to surprise the audience. When the movie attempts to be funny, it does so at the expense of realism. While comedy is meant to be a deviation from serious, conventional modes of life, it still needs to do it with an element of accuracy. Given the situation that the characters are placed it, it doesn't succeed on this note either.
However, the film is enjoyable and perhaps not worthy of the berating it is receiving from critics. It's a tough film to rate. On the one hand, it fails its intended purpose, Comedy, in lacking biting or original humour. But the film does offer some characters to enjoy with a matching story to suit. Definitely not 4 or 5 star material but certainly worth more than 1.
2.5/5