License to Wed
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Movie Reviews of License to Wed
Movie Review: One Pretty Bad Wedding!
Summary: 2 Stars
It was never my intention to go into this movie, I had no interest on it, and didn't think that I would enjoy it and that's just what happened.
Throughout the movie we follow Ben (John Krasinski) and Sadie (Mandy Moore). A couple that after about a year of dating is ready to tie the knot. Off course weddings are always exiting but for Ben, and might as well just say, Sadie, this is the road to hell. Sadie, not only wants to get married at the church that her grandfather built, but wants to be married by Revered Frank, both decisions which Ben hardly accepts. Before anything can happen, Reverend Frank tells the couple that they must pass a course that will prove if they are ready to get married or not. Huh? Exactly. All of the tests need to be taken before the wedding, and being a three months course, it gets pretty rushed given that the wedding its in three weeks. I must say that the tasks are pretty ridiculous, and that what wants to be funny is not. There a few scenes that do make you laugh tough, but no joke is memorable. The Family scenes are funny, but each character lacks the laughter.
Mandy was cute in "A Walk to Remember", and she was cute in this too, but she's just not funny, and John, being the first time I see him in a movie, didn't do a bad job. One thing that really got me was Robbie Williams, he has never been my type of comedian and this movie proofs that the best comedians to some might be the worst to others.
Over all the movie doesn't work as a comedy, the storyline is not the best and most situations are not believable, like having the little "Choir Boy" played by Josh Flitter, actually breaking into their house, opening the door with a Credit Card in about 3 seconds, placing a microphone in their bedroom as a sort of spying tool, and they not noticing for after 2 weeks; believe me if I was about to get married I would not go to Reverend Frank and neither should you.
Movie Review: License to Snooze
Summary: 2 Stars
In the view of some viewers, the multi- talented Robin Williams can enliven anything. Almost anything. The fact that the title and subject matter seem slightly traditional (marriage and religion, sort of), might lure families to this light comedy in which Robin Williams plays a fake priest. However, there is a completely out of place scene using JC as a cuss word.
It's never OK to use JC as a cuss word in any movies or TV shows regardless of the rating. Why? To many people this is the Name of Names. If you don't think it's the Name of Names, you have no business using it at all. And Hollywood, if you think you can ignore these cavils, think again. Meet the changing demographic and your true audience.
It's only believers with an ethical base who don't steal DVDs and CDs. Therefore, they now constitute the only paying customers, and therefore the only valid audience for Hollywood. As that audience awakens to this realization, they will start voting with their wallets, and to the bulk of current TV and movies (why didn't the writers just stay on strike?) they will vote "no".
A great many otherwise good movies have been ruined by using JC as a cussword, and thus ought to be boycotted by this audience. These include Adventures in Babysitting, released, unaccountably through Disney, and one of their few recent live action films that is even watchable, Bette Midler's one memorable performance, For the Boys, which she ruins with a cussing bout at the end, and nearly all the recent films of Adam Sandler, one of the few bright spots among new directors.
So Hollywood, meet your new audience, your only paying audience, and start making them films they'd actually want to see.
Movie Review: Some license...
Summary: 2 Stars
I rented this movie recently, but was dismayed by what Robin Williams has come down to. I mean, I've seen what I would call some of his best works till date - Good Will Hunting, Insomnia, Bicentennial Man... why, even Mork & Mindy, and I was terribly surprised by what he's been made to do nowadays.
After the smash crash "RV", one would have thought he would do better. Well, he perhaps does.
The story revolves around a couple who decide to enroll in a pre-nuptial course run by a Minister, who guarantees that it will make them ready for married life. Little do they know that by going through this, they might possibly end up with no married life at all.
I mean, seriously, some of that stuff is outright crazy and stretched. Like that sequence about "learning to fight fair - especially when you've never had a fight before", or "driving blind-folded"... the intro / breaking the ice routine is typical Robin Williams stuff, and was actually reasonable. However, most everything else is not.
See this movie only if you are a die-hard Williams fan. Under no other circumstances. No other performer does anything worth writing home about.
2 out of 5 - only because of RW.
Movie Review: Forgettable nonsense
Summary: 2 Stars
Not even Robin Williams could save this movie. And normally I like him. What's wrong about this movie? Mandy Moore is just there to look pretty (sorry but she is), the male lead is just a pain, there's annoying priest-to-be, and Robin Williams seems to be sleep walking through the role.
Of course when you're a couple you have all the firsts: first time you set eyes on each other, first date, first kiss, first time you go to bed together, then there's the whole moving in process, the engagement, the marriage, the baby. Not necessarily in that order. But in order to lower the divorce rate, Reverend Frank tries to make couples fall out before the wedding, therefore negating the purpose of the wedding. He tries his hardest with one couple, who seemingly have never had an argument (do they ever talk?) to realise that they shouldn't get married. (What's wrong with living in sin? Buy rings but the rest is just a piece of paper.)
Really, Licence to Wed is not worth seeing. It's instantly forgettable, with characters sleep walking through their roles, and this certainly isn't Mandy Moore's or Robin Williams' best movies.
Movie Review: Awful
Summary: 2 Stars
They took one of my favorite actresses and made me hate her. I love Mandy Moore. How could they do this to her? I like Robin Williams. I hated him in this movie too. The only person I didn't hate was the guy.
The movie started out great with the young couple meeting and it was a sweet and charming movie at that point. And then Robin Williams enters the picture and it's all down hill from there. The moment I got hit in the face with a baseball would be the time I said to Mandy Moore that the wedding is off. And the scene where she's blind folded and driving is just idiotic. She nearly killed people and then is mad at her finance because they don't communicate well enough.
And then there's the minister Robin Williams who sends a child in to illegally break into people's homes and illegally wiretap them.
The best part of the movie was when the guy finally punches Robin Williams. He was also the only bright spot in this movie. I'll give it 2 stars for him. Sorry I don't know his name.