Save the Wedding

Literally no one was worth rooting for. Every character was abysmal. I vehemently deleted it off the DVR wishing I could get the same satisfaction in doing so as I once did from slamming down a telephone.

Several of the recent summer movies have been poor, but this is truly awful. The writing is junior high level at best and the acting is bottom of the barrel. Who on earth thought this should be televised????

Okay, so we all know how these Hallmark movies end, but at least some of them are worth the time it takes to get to it.

This one, however, was poorly written, poorly directed, poorly acted, just poorly...

Come on, Hallmark, I hope you can do better than this... but I'm starting to doubt it.

Immature bride and arrogant maid of honor...not a good mix. Just awful!

Blame this on Jake Helgren - he wrote and directed this film. It is the "Plan 9 from Outer Space" of Hallmark movies and Helgren is its Ed Wood.

Almost every scene involves characters who stand in one spot, unmoving, with their arms pressed against their sides as they talk. The result is a movie that doesn't "move;" which contributes to the coma that the viewers slip into. It is terrible DIRECTING. Incredibly amateurish.

And Helgren's screenplay? The bride is a shallow neurotic fragile woman who is unlikable and whom no man would want to be married to. The romantic leads (Best Man and Maid of Honor) have no chemistry, and even worse, have no personality. Their dialogue simply moves the story forward but is boring to listen to. The change of heart by the bride, which saves the wedding, is based on a stupid idea and simply lacks any authenticity or believability.

This movie didn't deliver either of the two essential virtues of a Hallmark film -it had characters that we didn't care about and there was no sense of "fun" as the film progressed through its predictable plot. I don't recall a single scene that had any emotional power - no joy, no sense of romance or happiness or anything.

I gave it 2 stars because the scenes were well lit.