Too dependent on Williams to fill in the humorless gaps here, and the humor itself just isn't funny in the first place.
License To Wed (2007)
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Reviews Counted:121
Fresh:9
Rotten:112
Average Rating:3.1/10
Consensus: Featuring one of Robin Williams' most shtick-heavy performances, the broad and formulaic License to Wed wrings little out of its slightly creepy, unappealing premise.
Theatrical Release:Jul 4, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $43,745,954
Synopsis: An all-star cast inhabits this romantic comedy about a couple who must endure a humiliating obstacle course of a marriage-training program in order to gain permission to wed from their church's... An all-star cast inhabits this romantic comedy about a couple who must endure a humiliating obstacle course of a marriage-training program in order to gain permission to wed from their church's over-the-top reverend (Robin Williams). Hilarity follows as the lovebirds (Mandy Moore and THE OFFICE'S John Krasinksi) put their devotion to the test. From the moment they met in a Starbucks line, the couple was prone to cute mishaps and clumsiness, but they also displayed amazing chemistry. Then Reverend Frank and his creepy child assistant intervene, putting Sadie and Ben through a torturous process which involves couples counseling, bedroom surveillance, and a very funny sequence in which the couple must take care of two robotic fake babies while shopping for their registry at Macy's. While Krasinski's average-guy expressions are fun to watch, his persona on the big screen isn't too much of a stretch from his role in the television sitcom. And Moore's typical likability becomes irritatingly upbeat in several scenes. Packed with OFFICE cameos, LICENSE TO WED promises laughs up until the end, where it veers towards the trappings of an archetypal romantic comedy. [More]
Starring: John Krasinski, Robin Williams, Mandy Moore, Christine Taylor
Starring: John Krasinski, Robin Williams, Mandy Moore, Christine Taylor, De Ray Davis, Eric Christian Olsen
Director: Ken Kwapis
Director: Ken Kwapis
Screenwriter: Kim Barker, Tim Rasmussen, Vince DiMeglio
Producer: Arnold Messer, Mike Medavoy
Composer: Christophe Beck
Studio: Warner Bros.
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Reviews for License To Wed
Sadie (Mandy Moore) and Ben (John Krasinski) are getting married (because they met at the start of the movie.)
Looks like Robin Williams has replaced Cuba Gooding, Jr. as the kiss of death on the set of any comedy.
Forget blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, wasting our time with License to Wed is the one unpardonable sin.
"License to Wed" is so awful that if I had to choose between sitting through it or "RV" again, I would actually have to sit and think about it for a while
This is both a Robin Williams movie and a Mandy Moore movie. There's really no saving that.
License to Wed might have been a cutting comedy; instead it's a mild embarrassment for all concerned.
If for any reason your wife or girlfriend - or both - try to drag you to this thing, break up with them instead. It would be less painful.
Despite its fuzzy, getting-to-know-you message, the movie itself offers zero motivation for any of its protagonists.
Krasinski and Moore are an adorable couple, but marriage material they aren't, especially since they're given a mere ten minutes to form a full-fledged relationship before Williams breathlessly barges into the picture.
This assaultively unappealing 'romantic comedy' could well mark the opening salvo in a whole new Hollywood campaign against movie piracy. Anybody who'd steal this dud would stink just from carrying it around.
You have to go back to the worst Hanna-Barbera cartoons to find gag material this excruciatingly contrived.
Want to enjoy License to Wed? Go in expecting to have your eyes gouged out. I promise you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Any movie with this many eye-rolling moments should have its comedic license revoked.
Williams is the worst offender. Even he finally seems to be tired of his own act.
Williams doing his bad boy standup comic cleric routine with relish, can be counted as performing an act of salvation on a movie desperately in need of such not quite divine intervention.
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