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License to Wed
Warner Bros.
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sexual humor and language
Starring
Robin Williams,
Mandy Moore,
John Krasinski,
Eric Christian Olsen,
Christine Taylor,
Josh Flitter,
Peter Strauss,
and
Roxanne Hart
License to Wed follows newly engaged Ben Murphy and his fiancée, Sadie Jones, in their quest to live happily ever after. The problem is that Sadie’s family church, St. Augustine’s, is run by Reverend Frank, who won’t bless Ben and Sadie’s union until they pass his patented, "foolproof" marriage-prep course. Consisting of outrageous classes, outlandish homework assignments and some outright invasion of privacy, Reverend Frank’s rigorous curriculum puts Ben and Sadie’s relationship to the test. Forget happily ever after – do they even have what it takes to make it to the altar? (Warner Bros.)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Wayne Lloyd (story), Kim Barker (& story)
Tim Rasmussen
Vince Di Meglio
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Ken Kwapis
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 30, 2007
Theatrical: July 3, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
100 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Director Ken Kwapis uses those monster infants perfectly, down to a funny final outtake.

50
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
The fact that License to Wed isn't as unbearable as its trailers make it look doesn't mean it's good. It's not. It's just another mediocre addition -- worse than the best sitcoms, better than the worst.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Rev. Robin Williams goes from mildly comic to downright creepy.

50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Bland and boring.

50
Film Threat
Zack Haddad
It isn’t the worst romantic comedy I have ever seen.

50
USA Today
Claudia Puig
The characters and plot lack even a shred of credibility.

50
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Uneven but occasionally funny.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The creepy-faced robot twin babies are funny (for a while); the rest of the film is not. It's like "Meet the Parents" with Dr. Phil as the officiant from hell.

40
Austin Chronicle
Josh Rosenblatt
It goes without saying that this will be no everyday marriage class, not with a hyperactive Williams setting the curriculum.

38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Williams' grimace is starting to look desperate. Then again, no one comes off well in director Ken Kwapis' handling of this greasy screenplay.

38
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The outtakes that accompany the end credits suggest that making the movie was a blast; it's a shame the same can't be said for watching it.

38
Premiere
Stephen Saito
Krasinski and Moore are an adorable couple, but marriage material they aren't, especially since they're given a mere ten minutes to form a full-fledged relationship before Williams breathlessly barges into the picture.

33
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Krasinski knows how to play off Williams--his pained looks are all too appropriate in the face of Williams' desperate shtick--but it's disillusioning to see him here, because he seems too smart for this film.

30
Variety
Brian Lowry
Pic is at best a relatively harmless way to enjoy air conditioning for those who admire Williams' ability to riff, even at his most irritating.

30
Village Voice
Ella Taylor
Dreadful excuse for an unromantic comedy.

30
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Director Ken Kwapis (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) gives this script by many hands a certain gloss it doesn't deserve.

30
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
The movie is a pastiche of tortured slapstick, groan-inducing dialogue and a lethal dose of treacle, apparently awaiting one of Williams' trademark sprees of riffing and vamping to save the day. That moment never comes, however.

30
Wall Street Journal
Joanne Kaufman
The inert License to Wed shambles along one lame scene after another.

25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Forget about "Saw," "Hostel" and all the other films in the new, notorious torture-porn genre. If you're looking for a really sick movie, check out License to Wed.

25
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Watching Robin Williams as a pastor giving premarital counseling to lovebirds John Krasinski and Mandy Moore in License to Wed is like having a laugh chastity belt cinched up tight around your funny bone.

25
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
This movie is bad from top to bottom, front to back, and start to finish.

25
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Nothing in this film -- even Robin Williams, alas -- is funny.

25
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
If unused spit takes, flubbed dialogue, and extra improvisation are so uproarious, why not give us 90 minutes of that? License to Wed is tolerable for about five.

20
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Working from a flawed premise with characters lacking credibility and plot turns more moronic than funny, the movie flatlines in about five minutes.

20
Empire
Tony Horkins
If ever there was lawful impediment for a marriage to not go ahead, it's this mess of a movie.

10
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
The only thing that kept me watching License to Wed until the end (apart from being paid to do so) was the faith, perhaps misplaced, that I will not see a worse movie this year.

8
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
An atrocious Robin Williams vehicle that might be Hollywood's first anti-romantic comedy.

0
Salon.com
Mary Elizabeth Williams
One unbelievably crappy movie.

0
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
A sham.

0
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
There's bad, there's awful and there's horrible, and then somewhere beyond that, in its own Kingdom of Lousy -- where all the milk curdles and the jokes aren't funny -- is License to Wed, the latest ghastly exercise starring Robin Williams.


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