The Wedding Planner is a bit of fluff, but fluff can be entertaining taken in light doses.
The Wedding Planner (2001)
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Reviews Counted:101
Fresh:16
Rotten:85
Average Rating:3.8/10
Consensus: Instead of being light and charming, this romantic comedy is heavy-handed and contrived in its execution. Also, it's too unoriginal.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for language and some sexual humor
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Jan 26, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $59,900,022
Synopsis: Jennifer Lopez is Mary, a peppy career woman who is great at what she does: she can turn any wedding into the perfect romantic event. Incurably single, she feels she's hit the jackpot when a chance... Jennifer Lopez is Mary, a peppy career woman who is great at what she does: she can turn any wedding into the perfect romantic event. Incurably single, she feels she's hit the jackpot when a chance encounter introduces her to Steve (Matthew McConaughey), a doctor. What she doesn't know--and what Steve doesn't reveal--is that he is soon to marry Fran (Bridgette Wilson-Sampras), one of her high-powered clients. As the attraction between Mary and Steve grows stronger, they are thrust into a series of comically unpleasant situations which force them to confront their feelings for one another. Custom-built for Lopez's undeniable star power, THE WEDDING PLANNER is an easygoing crowd pleaser. [More]
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Justin Chambers
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Justin Chambers, Judy Greer, Alex Rocco, Joanna Gleason, Charles Kimbrough, Kevin Pollak
Director: Adam Shankman
Director: Adam Shankman
Screenwriter: Michael Ellis, Andrea King, Pamela Falk
Producer: Peter Abrams, Robert L. Levy, Jennifer Gibgot
Studio: Columbia Pictures
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Reviews for The Wedding Planner
This is exactly the kind of movie that thinks it's funny for someone to be demolished by a speeding dumpster.
... so short of substance, so lacking in vigour and so forgettable that it’s just not possible to work up a good hatred.
Works oh-so-hard to make everyone in it oh-so-likable that at times the audience is going to feel oh-so-nauseated.
On its own flyweight terms, The Wedding Planner is an appealing movie.
Lopez and McConaughey aren't the kind of pairing that makes you think these two fit.
Anyone who's read one romance novel knows how this will end, so the only suspense remaining is whose butt will be more fetishized by movie's end.
Considering how the Silicon Valley boom has made this the most romantic of cities also the most expensive, you have to admire The Wedding Planner for sustaining the ultimate fairy tale.
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