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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.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sexual humor and language.

Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

Genre: Comedies

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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No matter how hard I try, I'm finding it difficult to write anything positive about License to Wed. This movie is bad from top to bottom, front to back, and start to finish.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
07/03/07
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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I was so tempted to walk out of License to Wed. And I have never walked out of a movie, not in my ten-year career as a film critic, not before.

Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | comment Comment
07/02/07
MaryAnn Johanson
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

If you can't predict how it all turns out, you've never seen a family sitcom.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
07/02/07
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

[Krasinski and Moore] have bankable chemistry, and it allows License to float along for longer than you'd think possible.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
07/02/07
Sean O'Connell
Sean O'Connell
Filmcritic.com

It makes marriage look like the biggest mistake of all time, and the multiplex a prison from which there is no escape.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
07/02/07
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
eFilmCritic.com

One of the year's worst comedies, and in a year that has already contained 'Norbit' and 'Wild Hogs,' that's saying something.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
07/02/07
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

Somewhere along the way, somebody should have pulled this License, at least until the writers found funnier stuff for everybody to do.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
07/02/07
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

License to Wed is another lamebrain Hollywood comedy in which a peanut gallery of the shrill and the narcissistic conspire to drive a wedge between two innocents.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
07/02/07
Jan Stuart
Jan Stuart
Newsday
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This crude and unfunny comedy represents one of the low points in what has already been a disappointing summer-movie season.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
07/02/07
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Weddings are supposed to be happy occasions, but this shrill by-the-numbers comedy provides little reason to smile.

Full Review Source: Salt Lake Tribune | comment Comment
07/02/07
Sean Means
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune

License to Wed is set on a plane of existence not inhabited by intelligent life, but by widespread nincompoops.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment Comment
07/02/07
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

Like a creepy kid who has taken a few too many Ritalin tablets, License to Wed bounds around the screen wildly, overanxious to prove its wackiness.

Full Review Source: Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) | comment Comment
07/02/07
Jeffrey Westhoff
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

Mandy Moore is so likable, while Robin Williams is so not. [But] John Krasinski is like wallpaper. He's just there.

Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | comment Comment
07/02/07
Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews

Williams has become a comedic glass ceiling, a black hole of laughs that guarantees every scene he's in will make nails on a chalkboard sound appealing.

Full Review Source: Metromix.com | comment Comment
07/02/07
Matt Pais
Matt Pais
Metromix.com

Williams' Reverend Frank is so obnoxious that he'd empty the pews as fast as this dreadful movie will empty theatre auditoriums.

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
07/02/07
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

The only amusing thing about License to Wed is the idea that it's supposed to be funny in the first place.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
07/01/07
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine

A droll, amusing cautionary tale about the chances of living "happily ever after" - and wait for the zany outtakes during the final credits.

Full Review Source: www.susangranger.com | comment 8 Comments
06/30/07
Susan Granger
Susan Granger
www.susangranger.com

Unleashing Robin Williams in the least flattering possible manner, License to Wed squanders the modest chemistry between its appealing central couple uniting its elements in an astonishingly flat romantic comedy.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
06/30/07
Brian Lowry
Brian Lowry
Variety
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Comedies don't get much lamer than License to Wed. Working from a flawed premise with characters lacking credibility and plot turns more moronic than funny, the movie flatlines in about five minutes.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
06/30/07
Kirk Honeycutt
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
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Another by-the-books exercise in formula romantic comedies ... no surprises and no real reason to have to subject yourself to this.

Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | comment Comment
06/29/07
Edward Douglas
Edward Douglas
ComingSoon.net
 
 
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