License to Wed (2007)
Average Rating: 3.1/10
Reviews Counted: 125
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 116
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.
Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 30
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.
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Movie Info
An engaged young couple finds their lifetime of happiness unexpectedly compromised by a pushy minister who insists they successfully complete his comprehensive marriage-prep course before exchanging wedding vows in a matrimonial comedy starring John Krasinski, Mandy Moore, and Robin Williams. Sadie Jones (Moore) has always longed to marry the man of her dreams in her family church. Though she found her lifetime companion in Ben Murphy (Krasinski), Sadie is distressed to learn that St.
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Cast
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Robin Williams
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Mandy Moore
Sadie Jones -
John Krasinski
Ben Murphy -
Eric Christian Olsen
Carlisle -
Christine Taylor
Lindsey Jones -
Josh Flitter
Choir Boy -
DeRay Davis
Joel -
Peter Strauss
Mr. Jones -
Grace Zabriskie
Grandma Jones -
Roxanne Hart
Mrs. Jones -
Mindy Kaling
Shelly -
Angela Kinsey
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Rachael Harris
Janine -
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Jess Rosenthal
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Val Almendarez
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Nicole Randall Johns...
Louise -
Tashana Haye
Church Kid Sarah -
Sarah Kate Johnson
Church Kid Laurie -
Travis Flory
Church Kid Nanny -
Dominic Swingler
Joel & Shelly's Kids -
Devin Swingler
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Diego Swingler
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Cynthia Ettinger
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Gillian Skupa
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Poncho Hodges
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Ruben Garfias
Coach -
Kelsey Harper
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David Quinlan
Expectant Father -
Irene Karas
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Derek Greene
Doctor -
Christine Cannon
Delivery Doctor -
Anelia Dyoulgerova
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Nathan Barrett
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Darla Vandebossche
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Sean Tyson
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Chiu-Lin Tam
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Guy Fauchon
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Grant Gershon
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Crispin Barrymore
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Tonia Batson
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Joseph Bazyouros
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Paul Bent
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Cindy Bourquin
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Leanna Brand
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Andy Brown
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Karen Hogle Brown
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Vicky Preston Brown
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Alvin Chea
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Leberta Lorál
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Pablo Corá
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Claire Fedoruk
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Amy Fogerson
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Rachelle Fox
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Michael Freed
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Michael Geiger
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Dylan Gentile
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Scott Graff
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Steven Harms
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Saundra Hall Hill
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Marie T. Hodgson
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Diana Zaslove Kahn
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Bob Lewis
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Bobbi Page
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Steve Pence
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Fletcher Sheridan
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Kevin St. Clair
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Cahen Taylor
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Winter Watson
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All Critics (125) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (116) | DVD (14)
It's exactly what it looks like from the commercials -- a one-joke movie, and that one joke isn't even funny to begin with.
Top CriticAdd a lot of musty, Eisenhower-era gags (most women are shrewish ballbusters! all fat people love food!) and you wonder why the producers didn't just throw in canned laughter as well.
Despite its fuzzy, getting-to-know-you message, the movie itself offers zero motivation for any of its protagonists.
Like some weddings, License to Wed is a long sit and a bland buffet.
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.
I hereby pronounce you a flop.
I would honestly rather watch the Holocaust In Colour than sit through this again.
It's a bit short of laughs, but there are a few cute ideas in this formulaic, predictable romantic comedy.
Sadly, License to Wed lived up to my expectations 100%. That is to say, it was unfunny and uninspired.
Two up-and-coming stars get left at the cinematic altar in License To Wed, a badly strained romantic comedy with enough plot contrivances to fill a reception hall.
As someone engaged, I felt they disrespected what marriage can and should mean. And most importantly, I'm offended at their attempt at cringe-worthy humor.
Predictable wedding comedy is all about Williams.
You know it's bad when there are more interesting things happening during the outtakes in the closing credits than in the movie itself.
It's not quite as bad as some would have it (it will not, for example, kill puppies), but it is really very horrible.
This movie is an ecclesiastical disaster and, like the Rector of Stiffkey, Williams should be thrown to the lions.
Forget Wedding Crashers... this is a plain old Wedding Disaster.
The worst film I've seen so far this year.
The biggest letdown, is Williams, whose manic improvisations now bear all the hallmarks of a pub bore.
Robin Williams is back in this horrifically embarrassing and misconceived wedding comedy.
Josef Goebbels had a home movie made of the failed 1944 Hitler assassins being hanged from meathooks with piano wire. It probably had more laughs, more fun, more feelgood moments than this family comedy.
The comedy, starring Robin Williams as a reverend who won't marry couples until they have passed several ridiculous tests, raised a good few laughs.
Divorce is more fun than this film.
I now pronounce Licence To Wed a total flop.
License To Wed never escapes the combined trap of terminal blandness and a severe lack of decent jokes.
This bewilderingly bone-headed movie convinces that Ben and Sadie, should be kept as far apart as possible, if only to prevent them from breeding the kind of morons who would see nothing wrong with a movie such as Licence To Wed - or worse still, make it.
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- Sadie Jones: Benjamin Murphy, I would marry you tomorrow in a potato-sack dress, in the middle of the rainstorm, if it mean I could spend the rest of my life with you.
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- Licence To Wed (UK)
- Permis de mariage (FR)
