The Wedding Planner (2001)
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 103
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 86
Instead of being light and charming, this romantic comedy is heavy-handed and contrived in its execution. Also, it's too unoriginal.
Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 25
Instead of being light and charming, this romantic comedy is heavy-handed and contrived in its execution. Also, it's too unoriginal.
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This lighthearted romantic comedy in the tradition of Runaway Bride (1999) casts Jennifer Lopez in the Julia Roberts mold. Lopez stars as Mary Fiore, an ambitious and successful San Francisco wedding planner who works only for the most wealthy and exclusive clients but who is also a perpetual single. Pressured by her father Sal (Alex Rocco) to settle down, Mary is saved from a collision with an out of control dumpster by Steve Edison (Matthew McConaughey), a successful pediatrician. After
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Jennifer Lopez
Mary Fiore -
Matthew McConaughey
Steve Edison -
Bridgette Wilson
Fran Donolly -
Justin Chambers
Massimo -
Judy Greer
Penny -
Alex Rocco
Salvatore -
Joanna Gleason
Mrs. Donolly -
Charles Kimbrough
Mr. Donolly -
Kevin Pollak
Dr. John Dojny -
Fred Willard
Basil St. Mosely -
Lou Myers
Burt Weinberg -
Frances Bay
Dottie -
Kathy Najimy
Geri -
Huntley Ritter
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Suffers particularly in inevitable comparison with My Best Friend's Wedding.
Top CriticMcConaughey is insufferably smug as always, while the bewilderingly miscast Diva appears bored and impatient.
Occasionally so inept and embarrassing that it's almost physically painful to sit through.
It runs of romance and it runs out of laughs.
Disappointing would-be romantic comedy with innuendo.
Not so much a movie than just another tool in the entertainment-world-domination plot concocted by the burgeoning, big-butt-blessed multimedia phenomenon nicknamed J. Lo.
The script recycles every cliché you could possibly imagine (and then some).
The Wedding Planner is a bit of fluff, but fluff can be entertaining taken in light doses.
Its manner is as light as wedding cake frosting and its lead performances are as poised as the bride and groom at the top of the cake.
Although Lopez projects her usual charisma here, McConaughey seems as out of place as Will Rogers playing Rhett Butler.
One of the more confused romantic comedies.
when J-Lo tries to be J-Ro (as in Julia Roberts), the results are no-go. Obnoxious and unfunny from start to finish, "Planner" is about as tender and comforting as a fairy tale shouted through a bullhorn.
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