The Wedding Planner
User Score
6.5 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 35 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 35
  3. Negative: 9 out of 35

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  1. ChadS.
    Feb 27, 2005
    3
    No feel-good film here. "The Wedding Planner" is refreshingly dour in tone. It avoids the cliche of the two parties not getting their story straight when a friend or relative asks; for example, "Where did the two of you meet?" Debra Messing doesn't repeat her sitcom character, or Meg Ryan-out like a moonbeam. She's quite good. The problem is, however, Messing and Dermot Mulroney have absolutely no chemistry together. He doesn't have to be a jungle cat like Rupert Everett in "My Best Friend's Wedding", but, c'mon, he plays a man-ho who got his degree in comparative literature from Brown? There's also a reconciliation late in the film that absolutely rings false. You get the feeling that the screenplay by Dana Fox was tampered with. On the plane, Kat tells Nick(Mulroney) on the plane that her family is unredeemable, and sure enough, Kat's mother(Holland Taylor) says some unbelievable hurtful things about her daughter's broken engagement at the rehearsal. It rings false when "The Wedding Date" ends on such a happy note because the film doesn't really earn it.… Expand
  2. LindaV.
    Jan 27, 2001
    0
    Not funny, not cute, unbearable to watch!
  3. Maxine
    Jul 30, 2001
    3
    This could have been so much better. I think that they also gave away the movie in trailers.
  4. [Anonymous]
    Jul 15, 2001
    0
    This movie was so bad and boring, i fell asleep. I don't understand why J.Lo is such a big star when she SUX big time!
  5. MiaM.
    Jul 28, 2001
    4
    This movie was not what I had expected it to be. It had its cute moments (i.e. the two Justin Chambers scenes...), but the ending left much to be desired. McConaughey and Lopez were not anything extraordinary (Chambers was more fun to watch than the two of them), and after sitting through almost two hours, I felt disappointed.
  6. AndrewM
    Jul 25, 2004
    3
    Not the right vehicle for Lopez and McConaughey...in fact not the right vehicle for anyone! Just about everything about this film is weak. There are no true, redeeming strengths. Apart from a few (very few) palatable moments, the whole film is numbing, dumbing and lumbering. I love McConaughey as an actor, he can be quite brilliant. Lopez, I normally find very easy and comfortable to watch too. Both stars in this defective wreck are like sheep minus the flock...lost and scrambled. Much like the people's brains behind this tomato! Aviod it unless you dabble in a little masochism.… Expand

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Metascore
33 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 29 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 29
  3. Negative: 13 out of 29
  1. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    35
    The film's greatest flaw is its miscast leads, who conjure up zero dewy-eyed, wish-fulfillment magic.
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  2. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Kimberley Jones
    20
    The blandness of The Wedding Planner burlap-sacks their appeal in an altogether dowdy outing for two stars who deserve much snazzier threads.
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  3. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Kim Morgan
    42
    Lopez is fine, sometimes quite funny, but she's better playing the take-no-prisoners planner than a goofy, insecure dork.
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