The Big Wedding Reviews

An all-star cast very nearly goes down with the ship as filmmaker Justin Zackham (The Bucket List) indulges in relentlessly farcical silliness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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

Não é apenas uma má comédia; é mau Cinema.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

The goofy characters waltz through plenty of offbeat situations, but that's not enough because quirky and funny are not synonymous.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

What it desperately needed was more originality. I suppose Zackham thought that if he just got a great cast and sprinkled enough humor into it, then those would be enough to cover up all the flaws in the script. Unfortunately, he was very much mistaken.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

Behold the unholy matrimony of hack-job romance and whack-job comedy. Witness the blindingly bleached marriage of house-porn and cocky Caucasian privilege. Suffer the union of former A-list stars and express-cashed paycheques.

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Built on chaotically disparate tones and extremely broad jokes that never hit their mark, The Big Wedding is completely devoid of laughs.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Sinks to new levels of horrid.

Full Review | Original Score: F

At least somebody does fall in the swimming pool. It's Robert De Niro. Unfortunately, he resurfaces.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

With De Niro inexcusably using what is for many people the single most obscene swear word, this is well off target.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Big wedding? Big fat nothing, more like.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

"Oh God, this is humiliating," trills Diane Keaton and she never said a truer word.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

This is not so much Meet The Fockers as meet the shockers. The jokes are something old, nothing new, mainly borrowed and sadly blue. De Niro is a shadow of his former shelf, not so much Taxi Driver as taxidermy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/10

Disappointing, poorly conceived comedy that's both emotionally unconvincing and depressingly low on laughs, though the performances ensure that it remains watchable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Pure claw-your-eyes-out cinema.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

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