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Confetti
Fox Searchlight Pictures
MPAA RATING: R for nudity and language
Starring
Martin Freeman,
Jessica Stevenson,
Stephen Mangan,
Meredith MacNeill,
Robert Webb,
Olivia Colman, Felicity Montagu, Jimmy Carr,
Jason Watkins,
and
Vincent Franklin
A sharp and affectionate comedy featuring an ensemble of UK comedic talents, Confetti follows three couples as they duke it out to win a bridal magazine contest for "Most Original Wedding of the Year." (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Foreign
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Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Debbie Isitt
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Debbie Isitt
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 6, 2007
Theatrical: September 15, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
100 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK |
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83
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Tasha Robinson
Anyone who's been closely involved with a wedding knows exactly how these beleaguered schmucks feel. Those who haven't may just take Confetti as a lighthearted but convincing argument for elopement.
80
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Just when I'm ready to write off the mockumentary as an exhausted form, along comes this delightful and hilarious improv comedy from the UK in which a bridal magazine sets up a promotional contest for the best offbeat wedding.
75
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Must viewing for the Bridezillas set, this winning pageant of gaudy bad taste is the work of some of the U.K.'s most popular comedy performers.
75
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
It's ripe for an American remake, given the popularity of reality TV shows like "My Super Sweet 16" and "Bridezillas," but it's hard to imagine a better cast than this ensemble.
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The humor is sweet-spirited, the dialogue (all improvised by the cast) is acerbic and witty, the celebration of unbridled tackiness is often hilarious.
70
Los Angeles Times
Michael Ordona
Under the insanity and unsexy nudity, Confetti has a sweet center. Comic timing, themes of tolerance and commitment and the marriage of farce and empathy lift the film above the mockumentary pack.
70
Village Voice
Ella Taylor
If nothing else, this affectionately off-the-wall confection offers exuberant confirmation of every suspicion you might ever have had that the English are charmingly eccentric. They're barking mad.
67
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
The film veers toward sheer silliness at times, losing the sweetness that defines its strongest moments.
63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Overall, Confetti is agreeable and appropriately daft, though occasionally tepid and contrived.
63
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Like the average best-man toast, Debbie Isitt's amiable mockumentary has many funny moments, a few touching ones and some that fall just slightly flat.
63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Outlandish weddings aren't much of a satiric target, but Confetti isn't really going for satire; mild-mannered japes are more its style.
60
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Say this for Confetti: It's a crowd-pleaser. If, that is, the crowd is composed of people who have never seen a movie by Christopher Guest or a TV show starring Ricky Gervais.
60
Variety
Leslie Felperin
Picture is reminiscent less of Richard Curtis' romcoms and more of Christopher Guest's mockumentaries, with a dash of early Mike Leigh.
50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Confetti is an excellent study of what happens when someone botches Christopher Guest's mockumentary format.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
May be too convincing for its own good.
50
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Confetti overdraws on an audience's generosity.
50
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A good-natured but terminally mild British mockumentary.
40
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Content to go only a third of the way to the bottom of its characters, the movie gives each a few comic tics and leaves it at that.
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
With barely a laugh to be found, Confetti takes the "mock" right out of the mockumentary, and you can guess what's left. Yep, a Umentary, a brand new genre best defined by what it's not -- not real like a doc, not funny like a mock, not this thing or that thing or much of anything.
30
The Hollywood Reporter
Ray Bennett
The track records of the performers are impeccable, but Issit has obviously never watched an awards show or similar event where comedy actors appear unscripted. Placing the weight of such a preposterous storyline on their improvisational shoulders was a disaster waiting to happen. And it happened.
25
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A strained, ultra-predictable and headache-inducing mockumentary.
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