| 63 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
At its best when it employs the conventions of romantic comedies to satirize them through the eyes of an anti-romantic wedding planner.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
The unevenness of what surrounds the star couple is indicative of the script's inability to muster anything more than intermittent sophistication.
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| 60 |
Los Angeles Times
The picture is never less than pleasant -- but it's not more than that often enough.
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| 60 |
Salon.com
A chaste, lively and mildly goofy romance to dispel the winter blahs.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
The Wedding Planner dissolves into a mopey, leaden romance that piles on the contrivances before limping to its foregone -- and rote -- conclusion.
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| 50 |
Slate
The preview—if that's truly what it is—has a beginning, a middle, and an end; a host of good lines; and so many goofy surprises that it's hard to believe that there's anything more to see in the picture itself. I mean … they wouldn't show you the entire movie in the coming attraction, would they?
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| 50 |
New York Post
Simply not up to the task.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Manages to do the impossible: It makes Lopez bland.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
A plot like this is so hopeless that only acting can redeem it. Lopez pulls her share of the load, looking geuninely smitten by this guy and convincingly crushed when his secret is revealed. But McConaughey is not the right actor for this material.
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| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly
An out of date 1950s movie.
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| 42 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
As weak a star vehicle as Hollywood has cranked out this millennium.
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| 42 |
Portland Oregonian
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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| 40 |
Film.com
She (Lopez) wipes away the unpleasant memories of "The Cell," and serves notice to Julia and Sandra that there's another girl out there who can do romantic comedy-even of the half-baked variety.
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| 40 |
Village Voice
The Wedding Planner achieves the dubious but perversely impressive feat, for its 90-minute duration, of neutering Jennifer Lopez.
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| 40 |
Chicago Reader
Dopey but charming.
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| 40 |
Washington Post
I suggest you RSVP in the negative to this "Wedding" invitation, unless you consider yourself a friend of the obvious bride to be, Ms. Lopez. But even then, you'll have to focus on her presence, rather than the silly ceremony around her.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
Stumbles from cliche to cliche:
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| 38 |
Charlotte Observer
Writers Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis aim for the soufflé-style comedy audiences ate up greedily 40 years ago, but the film falls flat.
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| 38 |
New York Daily News
Has a lot of nerve making fun of Olivia Newton-John's "I Honestly Love You," as the choice of newlyweds fated for divorce in 12 to 14 months. The Wedding Planner should have such a shelf life.
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| 38 |
USA Today
Don't buy a ticket for this one, even if the theater is having a fire sale on Raisinets.
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| 35 |
Mr. Showbiz
The film's greatest flaw is its miscast leads, who conjure up zero dewy-eyed, wish-fulfillment magic.
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| 30 |
The New York Times
It's like watching two superbly conditioned rowers try to race a boat made of folded newspaper. Hard as they work, they just can't make it go any faster.
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| 30 |
Variety
This tale of mismatched lovebirds begins with considerable charm but eventually loses its winning ways with an excess of ridiculous elements.
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| 20 |
Dallas Observer
Think "My Best Friend's Wedding," subtract gay best friend, dorky karaoke scene, charm, and any hint of malice or conflict, and you've got it.
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| 20 |
TV Guide
That rare, unfortunate thing, a total misfire of a movie.
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| 20 |
Wall Street Journal
The best thing about a movie as silly as this is that it makes such modest demands on your attention. As the story unfolded with all the energy of California in a Stage 3 alert, I staved off brain death by trying to imagine an alternate version.
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| 20 |
Austin Chronicle
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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| 20 |
LA Weekly
Director Shankman has diligently studied the forms and reproduced the moves of the screwball romances he so clearly loves, but he simply hasn't the chops to put together even a decent rip-off of those glittering jewels of the '30s and '40s, which depend on great writing, classy situation comedy and, above all, chemistry.
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| 0 |
Christian Science Monitor
Frankly, it's excruciating to watch.
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