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The Wedding Date
Metascore
32 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 34 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 34
  3. Negative: 17 out of 34
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  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    63
    The curious case of two appealing performances surviving a bombardment of schlock.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Sheri Linden
    60
    Familiar but never overly broad, this well-cast, crowd-pleasing comedy benefits from a low-key emphasis on character over high jinks.
  3. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Stina Chyn
    60
    A decent film, but not a great romantic comedy.
  4. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    58
    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.
  5. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    50
    A vaguely creepy and mildly diverting rom-com.
  6. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    50
    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.
  7. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    50
    This is a charmless, lifeless affair that had me leaving the theater in a mood more appropriate to a funeral than a wedding.
  8. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    50
    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.
  9. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Luke Y. Thompson
    50
    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.
  10. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    42
    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.
  11. Empire
    Reviewed by: Caroline Westbrook
    40
    This is a leaden mess that offers only brief moments of respite.
  12. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
    40
    Dermot Mulroney is the movie's only genuinely romantic lead. And he's so good that he nearly carries The Wedding Date single-handedly.
  13. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Chuck Wilson
    40
    Anemic.
  14. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jennifer Snow
    40
    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.
  15. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Anita Gates
    40
    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.
  16. Variety
    Reviewed by: Justin Chang
    40
    An intriguingly racy premise -- plays out to listless, unsatisfying effect.
  17. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    40
    Nicely paced but so fluffy it threatens to waft away.
  18. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    38
    Wedding Date is neither good art, good entertainment nor even good trash.
  19. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Connie Ogle
    38
    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.
  20. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    38
    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.
  21. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    38
    The movie goes wrong from the start.
  22. Premiere
    Reviewed by: Peter Debruge
    38
    A relatively harmless (and thankfully, not entirely laughless) trifle.
  23. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    38
    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.
  24. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: M. E. Russell
    33
    A movie of utter inconsequence -- a cinematic Listerine Strip that evaporates from the brain before you even get your popcorn tub to the trash.
  25. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Angel Cohn
    30
    It might be best to discreetly misplace your invitation to these strained festivities.
  26. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Carina Chocano
    30
    Winds up an oddly depressing, lost, little movie that eventually caves in on itself.
  27. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    30
    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.
  28. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Teresa Wiltz
    30
    Amusing premise, not-so-amusing execution.
  29. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    25
    Suffers from a lack of chemistry.
  30. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    25
    Messing should know this is precisely the kind of movie Grace would ridicule Will for dragging her to see.
  31. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Rick Groen
    25
    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.
  32. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    25
    Messing may simply be one of those actresses who's the right size for TV and the wrong size for the big screen.
  33. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    20
    Inexplicable Fantasy Romances for the Harried Modern Gal 101 is a more fitting title for this shameless mediocrity.
  34. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    0
    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.
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