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Movie Reviews of The Wedding Singer
Movie Review: A delightful comedy!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Wedding Singer is a movie that you will either love or hate. You will know which of these two categories you fall into within 5 seconds of the movie starting. If you start bopping along to the title music, you will love this movie. If you hate the title music, you will hate this movie. By the way, the opening song is You Spin Me Round. Me, I love this movie. It's one of my all-time favourites.
The story at one level is a basic romantic comedy; boy meets girl, they fall in love, and despite seemingly insurmountable odds, they get together by the end, which is how you want it to be. It rises above the genre, however, both by being very funny, and by being set in 1985, which allows you to laugh at the fashions and the social mores of a period not all that long past.
The movie opens with the aforementioned song, being sung at a wedding by Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler). Robbie Hart is a Wedding Singer, and a very good one at that, as he quickly demonstrates by salvaging the best man's speech from this wedding. We also learn that Robbie is a very kind, generous and caring kind of guy. We also get to meet Julia (Drew Barrymore), a waitress who has just started work at this particular reception hall. Julia is a wonderful, sweet human being. Robbie and Julia develop an instant rapport, and we learn that Robbie himself is getting married next week and Julia is involved in a long term relationship at the moment which doesn't appear to be progressing towards the altar.
Robbie's wedding day arrives, but unfortunately, he is left standing at the altar by Linda (Angela Featherstone) whereupon he falls into a deep depression. Robbie's best friend, Sammy (Allen Covert) convinces Robbie to return to work, and an absolutely hysterical sequence follows revolving around the songs Holiday and Love Stinks.
Robbie gets to meet Glen, Julia's fiancé (by now he has proposed). Glen (Matthew Glare) is a big-time Don Johnston wannabe. Julia convinces Robbie to help her with her wedding plans. They have a lot of fun together, including another hysterical scene involving Jimmie Moore and his band (Michael Jay in a cameo role). As a result of this, Julia's cousin, Holly (Christine Taylor) takes an interest in Robbie. This leads to a double date with Robbie, Glen, Julia and Holly, where Robbie learns that Glen is a big-time fink, and has no intention of changing even after he marries Julia.
Robbie and Julia's romance now takes a seriously rocky course, with seemingly endless obstructions to their getting together. However, with a little help from Billy Idol and the entire First Class section of a flight to Las Vegas, Robbie and Julia finally get together. And that's how we really want it to be.
Movie Review: Love, 1980s Style!!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you grew up in the 1980s, particularly if you were a teen or a bit older, then grab your Swatch watch, your leg warmers, your Members Only jacket and your Rubik's Cube and get ready for a fun trip back to the excessive 80s!!
Adam Sandler is Robbie Hart, a small town DJ, who does weddings (and the occasional bar mitzvah)on the weekends for sixty bucks a pop, while living in his sister's basement. Robbie, his feathered hair and all, is a good guy though who dreams of writing his own music and marrying his high school girlfriend, the ditzy, big haired and clunky-belted Linda.
While doing his DJ duties at one wedding, Robbie meets Julia Sullivan (Drew Barrymore), a waitress who is new to town and looking forward to marrying her own sweetheart, Don Johnson wannabe Glenn, who sole pursuit in life, besides emulating Miami Vice, seems to be chasing tail.
Linda decides, in a serious case of bad timing, that Robbie is too small town for her and doesn't show up to their wedding ceremony. Although he decides to give up wedding singing in a fit of depression, he agrees to help Julia plan her big day with Glenn. In the process, he falls in love with Julia.
Like most romantic comedies, although both leads are perfect for each other, neither realizes it at the same time and only a dramtic intervention at the end of the film will save the day (in this film, Billy Idol is involved!)
Look for hilarious bits by Steve Buscemi, as a drunken best man in the wedding that opens the movie, Alexis Arquette as the cross-dressing Boy George lookalike in Robbie's back up band, Christine Taylor as Julia's promiscuous cousin Holly who strives to be so much like Madonna and Ellen Dow, as a rapping grandmother who is taking singing lessons from Robbie.
The soundtrack is wonderful and the feel-good feeling this movie leaves you with will make you long again for the days of Spandau Ballet, John Hughes and Molly Ringwald.
Highly recommended.
Movie Review: True Love and the 1980's
Summary: 5 Stars
I graduated from high school in 1988. Like most people, much of my high school career was awkward, and I was not one of the "popular" kids. But strangely enough, I look back on the entire decade with a sort of wistful nostalgia that I didn't even realize I possessed the capacity for--until I saw The Wedding Singer.I've seen The Wedding Singer countless times now, and like some other beautiful films (like Groundhog Day), it never gets old or boring. Maybe it's because I AM the demographic that this movie is shooting for--a guy who went through puberty in the mid 80's, and a guy who loves romantic comedies, especially when the main character of said romantic comedy is a lovable schlemiel, and even more especially when the leading lady is as lovely and wholesome as Drew Barrymore. I think that accounts for part of it, certainly, and I'm not sure how comfortable I'd be in recommending this movie to someone who doesn't relate to watching Fonzie growing up, and making fun of Culture Club in junior high, and thinking that Billy Idol was the coolest bad dude around.
On the other hand, a good movie is a good movie, and this one passes all the tests for me. It's an intelligent script. The acting is good, especially the dynamite performance of Steve Buscemi, who's got to be the coolest weirdo I've ever seen in a movie. And Jon Lovitz's cameo has me laughing just thinking about it.
And most importantly, it's a comedy that makes me laugh. And I laugh almost nonstop throughout the movie, and after the movie, I have the warm fuzzies, thinking that maybe even a lovable 80's schlemiel might someday encounter true love with a beautiful, wholesome young Drew Barrymore type.
And that's a pretty good feeling to have after watching a movie.
Movie Review: Robbie Loves Julia: An 80's Flashback
Summary: 5 Stars
The "Wedding Singer" takes place in a time when Michael Jackson ruled the charts and Madonna was only starting to gain widespread fame. This era, known as the 80's, is the setting for this film starring Adam Sandler ("Little Nicky") and Drew Barrymore ("Charlie's Angels") in what is one of the best films mad about one of the best decades of the last century.Robbie (Sandler) is a wedding singer who is hired to perform at weddings in the small New Jersey town he resides in. At a wedding banquet, he meets Julia (Barrymore), the cousin of one of his best friends who happens to be the newest waitress at the banquet hall. Robbie seems to be the happiest person on earth, especially since he is marrying his girlfriend. However, plans change, and Robbie finds himself dumped at the altar, lonely and depressed.
Julia on the other hand is dating Glenn, a selfish, sexist pig that she believes will make her happy. With Robbie tagging along and helping her plan her upcoming wedding, they get to know each other, and discover the chemistry they have for one another. Only with time do they realize that they are in love, but how will Julia break up her marriage?
Directed by Frank Coraci, the "Wedding Singer" is by far the best Adam Sandler film ever made. While his other films do possess humor, the "Wedding Singer" has a romantic plot, with comedy mixed in. Both stars are great, as well as Christine Taylor as Julia's cousin, and Alexis Arquette as Robbie's Boy George-looking band mate. With many hysterical performances, especially that of Robbie's rapping grandmother, the 'Wedding Singer" will make you wish that you were back in time to the 80's. A great film for any romantic-comedy fans!
Movie Review: "Love stinks...yeah, yeah!!!"
Summary: 5 Stars
The Wedding Singer is an extraordinary comedy set in the 80's. It's also the second pairing between director Frank Coraci and actor/comedian Adam Sandler (Happy Gilmore), the other movie that joins the two is The Waterboy which was released the same year. The movie also stars Drew Barrymore (Never Been Kissed).
Sandler plays Robbie Hart, a down-on-his-luck wedding singer who's dumped by his fiance on the day of their wedding. He lives in his sister's basement, and has a cross-dressing sidekick, played by Alexis Arquette who was the fourth guy in Bret's apartment who shoots and misses both John Travolta and Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction, who always sings Do You Really Want To Hurt Me by Culture Club. Barrymore plays Julia, a waitress at the banquet hall where Robbie sings, who's about to get married to a rich sleazeball named Glenn who dresses up like Don Johnson from Miami Vice and drives a Delorean from the Back To The Future movie. Robbie and Julia begin a friendship that seems so innocent but they slowly begin falling for one another. Robbie knows that Julia is the one for him and will do anything to get her even if it means that he should get some assistance from Billy Idol!
Enjoy the fun of The Wedding Singer and relive the 80's with all its hairstyles, fashion, and tunes featuring The Police, The Thompson Twins, Hall And Oates, Billy Idol, and a hilarious rendition of Rapper's Delight by Sugarhill Gang performed by Ellen Albertini Dow. The movie also features songs performed by Sandler himself: the hilarious Somebody Kill Me, and the sweet ballad Grow Old With You.
One of the best comedies of the 90's!
Recommended
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