Confetti

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman

The film veers toward sheer silliness at times, losing the sweetness that defines its strongest moments.

USA Today Claudia Puig

Overall, Confetti is agreeable and appropriately daft, though occasionally tepid and contrived.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

Confetti is an excellent study of what happens when someone botches Christopher Guest's mockumentary format.

San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein

May be too convincing for its own good.

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

Confetti overdraws on an audience's generosity.

Boston Globe Ty Burr

A good-natured but terminally mild British mockumentary.

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.

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.

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.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

A strained, ultra-predictable and headache-inducing mockumentary.