Despite its fuzzy, getting-to-know-you message, the movie itself offers zero motivation for any of its protagonists.
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07/06/07
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License To Wed (2007)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:2
Rotten:23
Average Rating:3.2/10
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... [More]
Starring: John Krasinski, Robin Williams, Mandy Moore, Christine Taylor
Director: Ken Kwapis
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Reviews for License To Wed
Top CriticThis 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.
07/06/07
Top CriticI hereby pronounce you a flop.
07/06/07
Top CriticForget about Saw, Hostel and all the other films in the new, notorious torture-porn genre. If you're looking for a really sick movie, check out License to Wed.
07/06/07
Top CriticThe inert License to Wed shambles along one lame scene after another.
07/05/07
Top Critic...even if I could have put up with the unpleasantness of this as comedy, I still would have balked at the eventual portrayal of this monster [Williams] as an angel in disguise.
07/05/07
Top CriticThere's bad, there's awful and there's horrible, and then somewhere beyond that, in its own Kingdom of Lousy -- where all the milk curdles and the jokes aren't funny -- is License to Wed.
07/03/07
Top CriticIt's highly amusing and its cast is extremely persuasive, playing the kind of roles that kill most careers: genuinely nice people.
07/03/07
Top CriticThe movie is plodding, predictable, formulaic and, worst of all, not funny.
07/03/07
Top CriticThe story ends with a sentimental clunk. To say the picture isn't funny is putting it mildly. It isn't tolerable.
07/03/07
Top CriticAll it does is make you wish [Robin Williams] never discovered movies -- or, at least, stuck to voicing cartoons and doing the odd, occasional drama.
07/03/07
Top CriticThe movie is a pastiche of tortured slapstick, groan-inducing dialogue and a lethal dose of treacle, apparently awaiting one of Williams' trademark sprees of riffing and vamping to save the day. That moment never comes.
07/03/07
Top CriticIt is only the latest attempt by a Hollywood studio to pander to prurience and piety in a single gesture, and to avoid giving offense by treating all possible factions of the public equally, which is to say like idiots.
07/03/07
Top CriticWill Robin Williams ever divorce himself from the unholy union of silliness and sentimentality?
07/03/07
Top CriticKrasinski affirms that he can carry more than a desk job on The Office, and Moore plays straight gal in a film that improves, at least, on her last role in the ugh-inducing Because I Said So. License to Wed doesn't fail her this time.
07/03/07
Top CriticThe creepy-faced robot twin babies are funny (for a while); the rest of the film is not. It's like Meet the Parents with Dr. Phil as the officiant from hell.
07/03/07
Top CriticIt's supposedly a romantic comedy, so imagine a couple of hilarious physical jokes -- you know, a guy takes a baseball to the face, ha-ha -- and channel in a few moments of Robin Williams doing his improv shtick around some key words.
07/03/07
Top CriticAnyone who has been through the process of church-mandated marriage preparation counseling should get a chuckle out of License to Wed, that is if the comedy weren't so badly handled.
07/03/07
Top CriticYou'd never know from License to Wed that Krasinski is a big asset to The Office. Here, playing an unappealing male lead, he merely smugs his way through the assignment.
07/03/07
Top CriticThis is the sort of lobotomized, condescendingly lazy movie that leaves you resentful of Hollywood.
07/03/07
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