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Wedding Daze

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this is a great romantic-comedy, jason biggs with a great supporting cast turn this film into one you can watch over and over again, not to predictable, great laughs. a movie you can watch with friends or that special someone. i just hate the reviews these wanna be movie critics put on here. this is a great film period.

Not quite what I would have expected (based on trailers in advertisements), but not bad. Given the leads, and backgrounds of same, I expected something more along the lines of say American Pie or Wedding Crashers, but this was rather tame. Note that says tame, not lame. Released straight to video, rather than going to theatres, one might think the movie here isn't worth the time, but that isn't true. Perhaps somewhat in line with the American Pie 'wedding movie', this one is certainly formulaic but delivers a cute movie if you care to sit and watch it.

Anderson (Jason Biggs) has his anticipated fiance unexpectedly become, well, unavailable. Heartbroken, not ready to move on, despite his best friend telling him that his relationship wasn't ready to move on to the next level begin with, he's somewhat dared into striking up a new relationship. One that by chances happens to involve Kate (Wedding Crasher's crazy red head Isla Fisher). So starts a rushed romantic relationship as the two characters propose to each other, accept the proposals and then question whether or not their relationship is a a good or bad thing. Can they actually make it through to getting married, or will the baggage each carries ruin things before they can even get started?

The comedy isn't quite as low-brow (for the most part) as any of the American Pie movies, or say Saving Silverman (another Biggs starring role) would be, but there are some funny scenes stolen by Anderson's parents and Katie's as well.

Coarse language at times, sexual content/suggestive behavior, probably deserved of the R rating that is carried for this one. Distributed as a flipper disc with widescreen on one side, full screen (why does anyone still buy anything in that format?!!?) on the other. A few deleted/extended scenes included as extras.

I have not seen a movie so simple and touching for a long time. The casts are easy and the whole story is so romantic (somewhat not very real). I would recommand this movie to all the people who lives with love. This is a wonderful movie. I need one for my collection.

This movie's plot HAD potential. I don't know where it went, but it WASN'T in the final cut of the movie.

Not that the main actors involved didn't turn in good performances. Jason Biggs has gotten his one-trick pony of pathologically-spastic-eccentric-geek-stunts/"potty humor" performance down pat. (Not as much of a compliment as that might sound, Jason!) Isla Fisher turns out to be the bright side of this movie, turning in a fresh and genuine performance that nicely compliments her physical beauty.

Love is not an emotion--contrary to popular opinion. Love is a decision. Even the best relationships do not FEEL the emotion all the time. This movie COULD have chosen to emphasize the fact that in all marriages there comes a time when you must continue to CHOOSE to love the other person. That love is a decision you make daily, is the mechanism of how arranged marriages have worked down through the ages in multiple cultures. (Don't get me wrong--I'm not advocating arranged marriages; this is just to illustrate and emphasize my point.)

By its wild exaggeration of decision over emotion, the premise of this movie could have made the point that a committed marriage CAN result from sheer force of wills and the valuing of commitment. The movie COULD HAVE chosen to emphasize these positive things that are sorely needed in this age of near-universal devaluation of marriage and easy divorce--but it didn't.

Instead, it emphasizes the feelings which most people confuse with love anyway. By the glorification of entering into marriage frivolously, it suggests that love and a stable marriage can come without thought, without doing any the SANE things that dating couples should be doing prior to marriage to discern whether someone is a proper mate. In the process, it takes every opportunity to demean and degrade the institute and sacrament of marriage.

Sadly, there are also several examples of the "lowest common denominator" bathroom humor and impurity/immorality that one associates with Jason Biggs and the "American Pie" crowd.

There is some good writing in this movie, and several (non-bathroom humor) laugh-out-loud moments. Those and the aforementioned performance by Isla Fisher are the reasons I didn't give this only one star. This is a good movie to see for free--and even then you may feel cheated. I certainly recommend against buying it.

The DVD is of average quality, with scant extra features--but then again, perhaps that's a plus.

It wasn't that bad, It was surprising good and heart warming. A movie doesn't need to be pioneering or edgy it just needs to be entertaining and this movie was very entertaining. It was refreshing in that it wasn't edgy or trying to hard. I've seen every movie to come out in 2007 and 2008 and this was far from the worst of them. With all the bad reviews I'm sure it will suck for most people, but give it a chance.

Wedding Daze came and went at the theatres here. After seeing a trailer online that suggested a funny if completely absurd film, I never saw another thing about this film. It didn't receive very positive reviews, didn't stay long in the theatres and didn't really catch my attention until I noticed it was on Netflix's "View Now" roster. So, I decided to give it a late chance and came away with a smile.

Let's get one thing clear: the movie is ridiculous. Boy Meets Girl. Boy accidently kills girl. Boy is sad. Boy meets second girl and instantly proposes on a lark. Girl says yes. Hijinks ensue. What this means for Wedding Daze is that Anderson (Jason Biggs) proposes to his girlfiend who is so shocked, she has a heart attack. He becomes inconsolable until his best friend forces him to ask out the next girl he sees. At this moment, Anderson meets Katie (Isla Fisher) and, instead of asking her out, asks her to marry him. She says yes, shocking both of them, and then the aforementioned hijinks (and awkwardness) abound.

It's a pretty silly movie, written and directed by the equally silly Michael Ian Black, that works only because of the inspired casting. The two leads, Jason Biggs and Isla Fisher, have always been perfect comedic choices and they are zany and funny here. Even when the story gets a little long in the tooth and extends a bit further than it probably should, they keep it mostly afloat. It feels like the grownup cousin of Saving Silverman, another absurd-but-decent comedy. And it can get away with a bit more with its R rating. However, as far as raunchy R-rated movies, it's pretty tame.

Enjoyable, but completely unbelievable.

The film certainly feels like a `straight to video' comedy, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't work as a comedy. There are many scenes where the laughs keep coming, and with reckless abandon at that, but the film never is able to shake that feeling that this was low-brow and under-produced.

It just feels lacking.

The film stars the vivacious Isla Fisher and the `where has he been' star of `American Pie', Jason Biggs. Jason plays Anderson, a young and in love man who accidentally scares his fiancé to death when he proposes dresses up as Cupid. Still in mourning a year later, he happens to meet the young and spontaneous Katie who is running from a proposal herself. On a whim (or a dare, however you want to interpret that) he asks her to marry him and she accepts. Now, both Anderson and Katie have a long list of quirks and issues of their own, but together they make such a mismatched pair that you can't help but see how `meant for each other' they truly are.

For me, the films main faults is that it runs out of comedic ideas too soon. It doesn't know how to sustain the intriguing plot. Instead, it falls into the rut of delivering one overdone gross-out gag after another. It doesn't know the word subtlety, and it doesn't understand the importance of variety. That said, when it nails something, it nails it hard. On top of that, Fisher is just plain ridiculously watchable; I mean, you're eyes never want to leave her. Biggs seems grown up, which is a good thing. I could actually see him becoming a honed leading man, that is if he ever gets good work again. The supporting cast is hit or miss, with some of their side-plots getting in the way of the film being truly wonderful. Joanna Gleason is probably my favorite of the supporting cast. Joe Pantoliano is probably my least favorite.

While there isn't really anything GIGANTIC to complain about here, there isn't really anything GIGANTIC to praise either. The film just rest comfortably in the middle. It's a forgettable yet enjoyable film. I really liked the premise but I felt it was underdeveloped in an exchange for cheap gags that are too overused in comedies today.

And what was up with Edward Herrmann and Margo Martindale? That couple was so strangely bi-polar, and their comedic efforts reaped similar rewards. I found their overdone love life to grow tired after the 3rd or 4th gag, but I found Martindale's `out of the blue' gangster turn in the kitchen ("I'll cut you!") to be ROLL ON THE FLOOR HILARIOUS!

See this film, and then decide for yourself.

There are bad movies. There are stupid movies. There are silly, pointless romantic comedies. For others, there should be a scale of badness that's entirely their own. This movie is that movie.

Movies like American Pie and There's Something About Mary are smart stupid comedies, movies like Wedding Daze are just plain stupid.

If you thought Good Luck Chuck and Shallow Hal were horrible, wait until you see the outrageously, intolerable gags in this lowly film.

The whole script is a tutorial on how not to write a screenplay. The entire movie is a Filmmaking 101 lesson - how not to make movies. It's a shame that good actors such as Jason Biggs and Isla Fisher were used, abused rather.

There's usually a reason for not releasing movies in the theater, and this movie rightfully set on the shelf for two years before getting a straight-for-DVD release last week. Nonetheless, that was not enough - in this movie's case, the tape it was recorded on should've been destroyed.

Of all the stupid movies this is perhaps the most watchable of them. Some silly jokes, yes, but you must recognize that it's a somehow well threaded story that will most likely grab your attention for the whole time. Not an Oscar candidate but not boring either. I do not regret the time spent. Most important of all: Not a parody of other movies.

'Wedding Daze' is an easy going, light hearted comedy starring Jason Biggs and Isla Fisher. The idea isn't that original but the actors throw themselves into it so wholeheartedly that you don't really notice. There are a few laugh out loud moments and the rest in pretty amusing too. It isn't too long so you shouldn't get bored. Overall this film is inoffensive and fairly amusing, worth a viewing if you've a spare afternoon to kill.

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