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Wedding Date, The
Universal Studios Inc.


5.2

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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sexual content including dialogue

Starring Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, Amy Adams, Jack Davenport, Sarah Parish, Jeremy Sheffield, Peter Egan, and Holland Taylor

In this romantic comedy, Debra Messing plays Kat, a never-married New Yorker, who is invited to her younger sister's wedding in London. What should be a joyous occasion bodes disaster for Kat, however, when she discovers that the best man will be none other than her ex-fiancé. In a desperate attempt to face the ordeal with dignity, Kat hires Nick (Mulroney), a charming and handsome professional male escort, to pose as her new boyfriend and escort her to the wedding. (Universal)

GENRE(S):	Comedy \| Romance
WRITTEN BY:	Dana Fox
DIRECTED BY:	Clare Kilner
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: August 16, 2005 Video: August 16, 2005 Theatrical: February 4, 2005
RUNNING TIME:	90 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

The curious case of two appealing performances surviving a bombardment of schlock.

The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden

Familiar but never overly broad, this well-cast, crowd-pleasing comedy benefits from a low-key emphasis on character over high jinks.

Film Threat Stina Chyn

A decent film, but not a great romantic comedy.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

Kilner's light touch keeps the romantic pair dancing around their romance without tripping, but as the film reaches the inevitable happy ending, the steps look all too familiar.

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

A vaguely creepy and mildly diverting rom-com.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

The lucky Mulroney gets to play the kind of sensitive hunk that women want and men want to be, but he's the only one who can be heard over the tired wheezing of the romantic-comedy machinery.

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

It seems like a slam-dunk pitch -- "Pretty Woman" with the genders reversed -- but there's one major problem: The whole hooker-fantasy bit is much more of a guy thing.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

A fairly mediocre film, not nearly as funny as it should be, nor as heartfelt. On the plus side, it's only 85 minutes long and isn't boring. On the downside, it has an intrusive pop soundtrack and a screenplay full of fake conflicts.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

This is a charmless, lifeless affair that had me leaving the theater in a mood more appropriate to a funeral than a wedding.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

So many body parts from other engineered romantic comedies have been crudely harvested and stitched together in the making of this weird robotic lark that "Maid of Honor of Frankenstein" might be more useful a nickname.

LA Weekly Chuck Wilson

Anemic.

Variety Justin Chang

An intriguingly racy premise -- plays out to listless, unsatisfying effect.

The New York Times Anita Gates

Struggles from beginning to end to capture the charm and ebullience of "Four Weddings." The new movie's effort is mostly unsuccessful, but there are bright spots.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

Nicely paced but so fluffy it threatens to waft away.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

Dermot Mulroney is the movie's only genuinely romantic lead. And he's so good that he nearly carries The Wedding Date single-handedly.

Empire Caroline Westbrook

This is a leaden mess that offers only brief moments of respite.

Village Voice Jennifer Snow

Clare Kilner's cast frolics in the countryside in an appropriately British-romantic-comedy fashion, and at times the characters trade silly snaps, but Dana Fox's screenplay is structurally shaky.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

There's nothing about The Wedding Date that isn't forced or labored; there's only a stubborn determination to embrace every cliche and make sure the stars photograph well.

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

It's an hour longer than the average sitcom, but The Wedding Date isn't much different from what you see crammed into any TV comedy lineup, minus the laugh track.

Premiere Peter Debruge

A relatively harmless (and thankfully, not entirely laughless) trifle.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Oddly enough, though, only the finale is predictable in a movie that appears to have been edited in an early-model blender. Not a single scene connects smoothly with the next.

USA Today Mike Clark

The movie goes wrong from the start.

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

Wedding Date is neither good art, good entertainment nor even good trash.

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

A movie of utter inconsequence -- a cinematic Listerine Strip that evaporates from the brain before you even get your popcorn tub to the trash.

Washington Post Teresa Wiltz

Amusing premise, not-so-amusing execution.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

This movie is all pretty faces and six-pack abs, but no characters. All surface and no soul. Come to think of it, the surface isn't so darned hot either.

TV Guide Angel Cohn

It might be best to discreetly misplace your invitation to these strained festivities.

Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

Winds up an oddly depressing, lost, little movie that eventually caves in on itself.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

Imagine, if you dare, the outtakes from all those merely bad romantic comedies. Now further imagine that these discarded bits, the stuff that failed to make even the failures, found their way out of the waste bin and into a splicing machine and onto a projector. Do that and you're inching toward a full appreciation of this particular barrel, and the bottom it so brazenly scrapes.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Suffers from a lack of chemistry.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

Messing may simply be one of those actresses who's the right size for TV and the wrong size for the big screen.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Messing should know this is precisely the kind of movie Grace would ridicule Will for dragging her to see.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Inexplicable Fantasy Romances for the Harried Modern Gal 101 is a more fitting title for this shameless mediocrity.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

A witless, stale and half-hearted rehash of cliches borrowed from the likes of "The Wedding Planner," "The Wedding Singer" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral," this pathetic, alleged comedy certainly wasn't improved by clueless direction by Clare Kilner.

The average user rating for this movie is 5.2 (out of 10) based on 18 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

S G gave it a6:
Charming, light romantic comedy.

Saebjorn V. gave it a2:
Waste of everything.

Bob S. gave it a0:
The movie was utter trash and I couldn't stand it. Left after 45 mins. Only funny bit was when father poured bucket water over himself!

Lendy D. gave it a10:
The movie was great-Messing and Mulroney complemented each other very well and the cousin was a trip.

Mira K gave it a0:
Horrible, what more can one say? The actors seem to be trying NOT to act, while the script doesn't have one funny moment in it. It's a waste that people actually waste money making something like this.

Casey B. gave it a10:
This movie was awesome i loved it!! whoever didnt like was wrong.

t jones gave it a10:
I loved the movie, one liners were very funny. I loved the English landscape, and I loved the soundtrack, tried to buy it but it wasn't available.

Wedding Date, The Universal Studios Inc.

Wedding Date, The
Universal Studios Inc.