• R, 1 hr. 29 min.
  • Comedy
  • Directed By:
    Justin Zackham
    In Theaters:
    Apr 26, 2013 Wide
    On DVD:
    Aug 13, 2013
  • Lionsgate Films

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The Big Wedding Reviews

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Rich Cline
Contactmusic.com

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 Source: Contactmusic.com | Original Score: 3/5

May 31, 2013

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 Source: 3AW | Original Score: 2.5/5

May 4, 2013
Joshua Starnes
ComingSoon.net

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 Source: ComingSoon.net | Original Score: 7.5/10

May 1, 2013
Alonso Duralde
The Wrap
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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.

Full Review Source: The Wrap

April 26, 2013
William Bibbiani
CraveOnline

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

Full Review Source: CraveOnline | Original Score: 5.5/10

April 26, 2013
Sandy Schaefer
ScreenRant

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

Full Review Source: ScreenRant | Original Score: 3/5

April 26, 2013
Roger Moore
Movie Nation

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

Full Review Source: Movie Nation | Original Score: 2.5/4

April 25, 2013
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

Não é apenas uma má comédia; é mau Cinema.

Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | Original Score: 1/5

September 1, 2013
Forrest Hartman
Reno Gazette-Journal

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

Full Review Source: Reno Gazette-Journal | Original Score: 2/4

August 13, 2013
Jeff Beck
Examiner.com

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 Source: Examiner.com | Original Score: 1.5/5

August 12, 2013
Brian Gibson
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

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.

Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

July 11, 2013

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

Full Review Source: The Skinny | Original Score: 1/5

June 5, 2013
Bruce Bennett
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

Sinks to new levels of horrid.

Full Review Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah) | Original Score: F

June 3, 2013
Donald Clarke
Irish Times

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

Full Review Source: Irish Times | Original Score: 1/5

June 2, 2013
Graham Young
Birmingham Mail

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

Full Review Source: Birmingham Mail | Original Score: 2/5

May 31, 2013
Charlotte O'Sullivan
This is London

Big wedding? Big fat nothing, more like.

Full Review Source: This is London | Original Score: 2/5

May 31, 2013
Allan Hunter
Daily Express

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

Full Review Source: Daily Express | Original Score: 1/5

May 31, 2013

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 Source: UTV | Original Score: 1/10

May 30, 2013
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

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

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | Original Score: 2/5

May 29, 2013
Joseph Walsh
Little White Lies

Pure claw-your-eyes-out cinema.

Full Review Source: Little White Lies | Original Score: 1/5

May 29, 2013
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
May 2, 2013
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