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75
The movie, in its basic concept, is corny and contrived, but as written and directed by Justin Zackham, it's executed in a pleasantly wry and understated fashion.
63
Coarse, crude but often cute, The Big Wedding serves up the spectacle of its title, and the bigger spectacle of four AARP-eligible Oscar winners cursing like sailors.
55
The rare example of a film that had to have been a tonal mystery to everyone involved for the entire process of scripting, shooting, and editing. The lingering issue? They never managed to crack the case.
50
The fact that the three actors who do most of the fooling around - Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton and Susan Sarandon - have a combined age of 202 pegs this as a sex romp for the Viagra crowd.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Most of this huge-cast extravaganza is a botched farce. When that doesn't work, it turns sentimental. The presence of liked and familiar actors helps make it watchable, but there is no disguising that this is a weak, badly constructed comedy. At least it's short.
50
No one is bad in The Big Wedding, but no one is remotely believable, either.
50
Forced, formulaic and never believable. It's a particularly unholy combination.
40
Zackham's film feels as plastic as a cake topper - and just as hard to digest.
25
Quaint and crass get together - or would that be “bump uglies”? - with awkward, thoroughly flat results in The Big Wedding, an ensemble comedy with a tonal cluelessness as surprising as the name cast that signed on for it anyway.
20
The Big Wedding lets them all down with bottom-rung sitcom shtick and an undercurrent of squareness masquerading as absurdity.
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