Sing Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace (2006)
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 25
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 20
An unconvincing retreat of The Big Chill, Sing Now lacks empathetic characters and good tunes.
Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 8
An unconvincing retreat of The Big Chill, Sing Now lacks empathetic characters and good tunes.
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SING NOW or Forever Hold Your Peace is an ensemble comedy about a group of men who sang together in an a cappella group in college. Fifteen years later they reunite to perform at a friend's wedding. During a long weekend rehearsing together, the men reflect on how their lives have progressed -- and in some cases, regressed --since their college heyday. --© Strand Releasing
Mar 8, 2006 Wide
Strand Releasing
Cast
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Molly Shannon
Trish -
Mark Feuerstein
Greg -
David Harbour
David -
Elizabeth Reaser
Julep -
David Alan Basche
Steven -
Rosemarie DeWitt
Dana -
Reg Rogers
Richard -
Alex Chapman
Ted -
Liz Stauber
Michelle -
Samrat Chakrabarti
Will -
Chris Bowers
Spooner -
Camilla Thorsson
Elsa -
Tara Magalski
Kate -
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All Critics (26) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (20)
Take out all the elements of The Big Chill that made you like that film and keep the ones that annoyed you and you've got The Wedding Weekend.
Top CriticOne long sour note.
Molly Shannon, as the raunchy wife of the group's most reserved member, is the best-known actor in the cast and its most obnoxious.
The actors are well cast and effective. As a film, Sing Now, shot on location, is as attractive as its cast.
Its dramatic freight lurches, and intriguing characters (a sex savant, an Indian human beat box) are sold short; a thinning of the ranks might have helped.
If, when this gang lights into Our Love Is Here to Stay, you feel you've entered a very special chamber in Hell, rest assured you're not alone.
It's an inoffensive and unchallenging little film.
Indie buddy comedy hits too many wrong notes.
The cast veers from overly theatrical (Rogers) to amusing (Molly Shannon as Ted's wife Shannon, a woman who speaks her mind without thinking about the consequences) to spot on (Harbour, DeWitt, Basche, and several others).
Cute is as cute does. Not much more. Eh.
The cinematic equivalent of catchy soft-rock elevator music.
The title is the least of the film's problems; far more significant is its failed attempt to make its protagonists endearing instead of obnoxious.
It's pretty insubstantial stuff.
As for the singing, it's pleasant but unctuous and, frankly, made me squirm.
Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace is a poor man's Big Chill, proving that navel gazing isn't the sole province of early baby boomers.
Do we really need another movie with thirtysomethings who ache to re-live their college years? C'mon, guys, grow up!
Sing Now/Wedding Weekend has a marvelous personality to it that does wonders to alleviate the problem areas that plague the script.
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The Wedding Weekend was not a horrible film, but it wasn't that great. The whole college friends reunite for a wedding theme is tired. It's been done a lot better than this, in the past. The script was cute, but predictable. The singing was good, but not great. Same old same old. Nothing really sets this one apart from the masses.
Molly Shannon and Elizabeth Reaser were entertaining, otherwise, the acting was not very good. At some point they forgot this was supposed to be a comedy and started going in a more serious direction, only not very well. That left a bad taste in my mouth. If you are going to do comedy...do so. If you are going to do a dramady....commit to it and make it real with feeling. The Wedding Weekend was lacking that.
Don't rush off to watch this one.