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5.4 out of 10

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  3. Negative: 8 out of 21

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  1. JamesS.
    Feb 13, 2005
    0
    I hate this movie. I walked out and my friends that stayed told me that 5 more people walked out after I did- I love that! Anyway- the premise makes no sense, the characters are unlikeable, the jokes arent funny and its all poorly executed- and Im someone who can appreciate a bad movie-I mean, I liked Saw!
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  2. Dublin
    Feb 10, 2005
    0
    Is it gone from theaters as yet? It's an embarassment. Awful.
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  3. MiraK
    Mar 4, 2005
    0
    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.
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  4. BobS.
    May 20, 2005
    0
    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!
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  5. SaebjornV.
    May 22, 2005
    2
    Waste of everything.
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  6. CaseyB.
    Feb 20, 2005
    10
    This movie was awesome i loved it!! whoever didnt like was wrong.
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  7. matguy
    Feb 8, 2005
    10
    I love movies!
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  8. MarkB.
    Feb 9, 2005
    3
    "I've got it!!" yelled the studio executive, half his cigar ashes hitting the expensive ashtray and the other half hitting the expensive carpet. "That chick flick with the redheaded babe from that gay TV show on Thursday nights...you know, that movie that everybody agrees bites the big one and nobody knows what to do with? We'll toss it out there on Super Bowl Weekend, and all the gals will storm the multiplexes! After all, it has 'wedding' in the title, and the little women just eat that crap up! It can't miss!!! Oh, and speaking of the Super Bowl, put me down for Philly." Incredibly faulty reasoning on two counts: 1.) the term "chick flick" is an insulting misnomer, because really good films, from Gone With the Wind to When Harry Met Sally... will find their audiences among either gender, and 2.) anyone who really wants to avoid the Super Bowl can find umpteen infinitely more worthy films currently playing in theaters, from The Aviator to Million Dollar Baby to Hotel Rwanda to Spanglish...the list goes on. The Wedding Date, in which Kit (Debra Messing) hires a male pros--er, escort to make her slimy ex-fiance jealous at her sister's wedding (don't ask) is another sorry member of the Little Black Book school of romantic comedy, wherein nearly all the lead characters behave and treat each other in the most unsavory, disgusting ways possible. My theory as to why they set the whole thing in Great Britain rather than keeping it stateside is that it's a diversionary ploy to keep the audience from correctly tagging Kat and her dysfunctional family as prime Jerry Springer Show fodder. (It doesn't work.) Two performances manages to shine in spite of it all: Holland Taylor, as Messing's chic but tactless mom, proves that nobody can play Holland Taylor roles like Holland Taylor. And Sarah Pilson is so vibrant, funny and refreshing as a bawdy, blunt (and slightly lonely) bridesmaid that director Clare Kilner's smartest move (her only smart move, in fact) is to prominently place Pilson in as many group scenes, and/or cut to her reactions as often as humanly possible. Unfortunately, these are supporting players, and Dermot Mulroney (as the male title character in the movie's triple-meaning title) is a huge, energy-sucking void. He was brilliantly used by Alexander Payne as Hope Davis's doofus fiance in About Schmidt, and he didn't hurt My Best Friend's Wedding (which this movie is desperately trying to leech off the pleasant memories of by casting him) at all, since that movie was all about Julia Roberts vs. Cameron Diaz, and it didn't matter WHO "the guy" was. However, here he's not only incredibly wooden but sullen, as if he had been forced to take this movie as the result of losing a bar bet. Sadly, the large, gaping hole he leaves is almost matched by Messing, whose likability on Will & Grace does a lot to cover how neurotically self-involved her TV character is. Some TV actors transfer well to the movies, others are completely swallowed by them...and I'm sorry to report that Messing, who comes off as a good friend on the small screen, registers as a distant stranger on the big one.… Expand
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  9. LendyD.
    Apr 19, 2005
    10
    The movie was great-Messing and Mulroney complemented each other very well and the cousin was a trip.
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  10. SG
    Jul 26, 2006
    6
    Charming, light romantic comedy.
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  11. tjones
    Feb 14, 2005
    10
    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.
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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
  1. 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.
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  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Chuck Wilson
    40
    Anemic.
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  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    38
    Wedding Date is neither good art, good entertainment nor even good trash.
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