Amor, bodas y otros desastres

Yes it is a cheesy, contrived, feel good wedding movie. Yet somehow the team pulls it off, don't expect anything deep or meaningful, just take it for what it is, a feel good piece of entertainment to make us happy and the production crew a salary. Probably a pretty good one.

The problem with this film is that it is very unfocused. It wants to be an ensemble romantic comedy, but it is not ensemble, but romantic and not comedic. It is plainly boring.

Of course, it was not the best movie with mini-stories that turn out to be connected (those are still the ones made by Garry Marshall), and at times it was a little stupid, but it was still entertaining. We were laughing out loud at the physical comedy! I also found it fun that it was filmed in Boston - I even spotted bottles of Bully Boy at the bar!

This starts slow and disjointed, almost reminiscent of a bad version of Love Actually. By the second half it has picked up and you start to relate to the characters, everything slowly makes more sense and you get the expected happy feel good Cinderella ending.

This film was recommended by some web site and it was quite impossible to enjoy. You've seen it before: the quirky characters (all of them) speaking fast, smiling, making jokes and having mishaps, but in the end coming together and becoming better. I found all characters incredibly grating. I know it's targeted to an audience that likes to think they are quirky and interesting when in fact they are annoying and stupid, so I understand where it came from, but the characters and setup alone just made it feel like a bad stand-up comedy show: A guy comes on stage, starts telling you about his friends and family, laughing at his own jokes, and you just don't see what he thinks it's funny, but you paid for the seat and your date is laughing so you endure. The scene where some relatives arrive at work with an impromptu date "intervention", where the blind date is actually blind and the first thing she does is topple a table was cringeworthy and quite offensive for both table makers and blind people. Ugh!

Funny enough, I wanted to see this film with my wife and she had other things to do. It was the right choice.

And it's too bad, because the actors in the film are doing a decent job, or at least I have a lot of nostalgia about them so I didn't mind their work. The thing is, this was released in 2020 and it feels like a 1990 movie with futuristic phones.