The Big Wedding Reviews

It's not a bad film by any means, and there is some fizz seeing Sarandon, Keaton and De Niro bounce off each other, verbally and physically. Yet the film seems stuck in first gear, seemingly reluctant to dial up its screwball potential.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

The Big Wedding is not a classic, or even really memorable, by any means, but considering the pit it starts at, it gets off light. And that's better than usual.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.5/10

Sarandon, Keaton and De Niro mesh beautifully, fully convincing as a trio of old friends and carting in lots of characterization that would be otherwise lacking in Zackham's rote screenplay.

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De Niro, Keaton and Sarandon seem genuinely interested in developing their characters' complex relationship history into something that overcomes mindless cliché.

Full Review | Original Score: 5.5/10

The Big Wedding is an occasionally charming and, overall, strangely watchable variation in the dysfunctional wedding comedy subgenre.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Broad, coarse and crude -- but bottom line? A lot of good actors land more than a few laughs.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

As bland as a box of beige rocks.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4

Barring a few off-color jokes, though, the movie feels like a Carol Burnett sketch dragged out to feature length.

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"Big" is an awfully ambitious modifier to affix to this pale wisp of a film.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

All of the actors, young and old alike, look plastic, and the characters' big revelations -- pregnant, lesbian, had an affair, etc. -- all feel plastic.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Vulgar, witless, and an insult to its stars and its audience.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4

It simply takes all the things you've seen in other wedding movies and recycles them, all while pretending you're dumb enough not to notice.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Can I just say that The Big Wedding smells from herring and be done with it?

Full Review | Original Score: .5/5

It's tired and dated with too few laughs to justify the stultifying attempts at drama and the impossible-to-swallow plot contortions.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

For a movie ultimately about what freaks we all are behind the fronts we build for the sake of normalcy, the apathetically performed The Big Wedding couldn't possibly be more square.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4

Ten minutes into this one and I was all set to hack off my arm "127 Hours"-style in order to escape and I wasn't even pinned underneath anything but a mounting sense of dread.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

An incoherent string of crude skits, including one where Robert De Niro sheepishly sports a substance-eating grin after being caught performing cunnilingus between a widespread pair of naked legs. Look! A falling star! Make a wish!

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4

Katherine Heigl puked on Robert De Niro, and he still had a better time than I did at The Big Wedding.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4

Looks great, some terrific ingredients, but when you slice it up, what a disappointment.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

I'm... pleased?... not sure if that's the right word... surprised or relieved, maybe, like finding out you get to be the front part of the human centipede... to report that this not-very-good wedding farce is also not the worst film of all time.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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