The script by Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis is so grindingly predictable every step of the way that it's cumulatively numbing, and finally sleep inducing.
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01/26/01
The Wedding Planner (2001)
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Reviews Counted:101
Fresh:16
Rotten:85
Average Rating:3.8/10
Consensus: Instead of being light and charming, this romantic comedy is heavy-handed and contrived in its execution. Also, it's too unoriginal.
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Jennifer Lopez is Mary, a peppy career woman who is great at what she does: she can turn any wedding into the perfect romantic event. Incurably single, she feels she's hit the jackpot when a chance... [More]
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Justin Chambers
Director: Adam Shankman
Reviews for The Wedding Planner
It's made with care, which sets it apart from most recent movies of this ilk.
01/26/01
Shankman plods through this forced merriment, substituting stunning locations and pastel wardrobes for real romance.
01/26/01
A particularly vapid and predictable little romantic bit of cinematic fluff.
01/26/01
Works oh-so-hard to make everyone in it oh-so-likable that at times the audience is going to feel oh-so-nauseated.
01/26/01
Too often it comes up with sappiness where it needs sass.
01/26/01
A lost cause that thinks rowdiness can compensate for a story that just plain doesn't make sense.
01/26/01
Begins brightly, then wears on too long and too predictably.
01/26/01
The writing in Wedding Planner ... is simply not up to the task.
01/26/01
There are times when the movie's contrivance is agonizing.
01/26/01
Top CriticIt's as if the tone is at war with the content. Bright and bubbly, it endlessly chronicles bad behavior spun toward the positive.
01/26/01
Lopez and McConaughey are valiant in expanding their careers, but this film gives them no opportunity to match up to Day and Hudson, or even Roberts and Gere.
01/26/01
Everything in this movie, save for Matthew McConaughey's lonely understated performance, is shrill, grating and leaden.
01/26/01
Beyond a great looking cast and an occasional decent laugh or two, the film squanders its premise and turns into a contrived and messy state of affairs.
01/25/01
All frosting and no substance.
01/25/01
Like real weddings, this movie is best viewed when drunk.
01/25/01
The Wedding Planner features a new, 'softer' look for Jennifer Lopez, and it doesn't suit her at all.
01/25/01
Strictly predictable.
01/25/01
Too much of this belabored romance is devoted to the surprisingly unfunny complications that ensue when Mary discovers the true identity of her new crush.
01/25/01
My Best Friend's Wedding is about as good as this type of movie could possibly be, and The Wedding Planner is half as good, so you can do the math.
01/25/01
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