The Wedding Date
Metascore
32 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - 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 Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    38
    Wedding Date is neither good art, good entertainment nor even good trash.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    38
    The movie goes wrong from the start.
  5. Premiere
    Reviewed by: Peter Debruge
    38
    A relatively harmless (and thankfully, not entirely laughless) trifle.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Angel Cohn
    30
    It might be best to discreetly misplace your invitation to these strained festivities.
  9. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Carina Chocano
    30
    Winds up an oddly depressing, lost, little movie that eventually caves in on itself.
  10. 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.
  11. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Teresa Wiltz
    30
    Amusing premise, not-so-amusing execution.
  12. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    25
    Suffers from a lack of chemistry.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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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5.4 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 25 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 11
  3. Negative: 6 out of 11
  1. SG
    6
    Charming, light romantic comedy.
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