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11/06/02
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The Wedding Planner (2001)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:6
Rotten:22
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: Instead of being light and charming, this romantic comedy is heavy-handed and contrived in its execution. Also, it's too unoriginal.
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... [More]
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Justin Chambers
Director: Adam Shankman
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Reviews for The Wedding Planner
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02/07/01
Top CriticSuffers particularly in inevitable comparison with My Best Friend's Wedding.
01/31/01
Top CriticMcConaughey is insufferably smug as always, while the bewilderingly miscast Diva appears bored and impatient.
01/31/01
Top CriticOccasionally so inept and embarrassing that it's almost physically painful to sit through.
01/29/01
Top CriticIt runs of romance and it runs out of laughs.
01/29/01
Top CriticThe work of la Lopez, who is as gifted as she is gorgeous, and by McConaughey, a dreamboat when he’s at ease, is more than compensatory.
01/26/01
Top CriticA pastiche of secondhand ideas gleaned from watching Best Friend's Wedding.
01/26/01
Top CriticIt's made with care, which sets it apart from most recent movies of this ilk.
01/26/01
Top CriticWorks oh-so-hard to make everyone in it oh-so-likable that at times the audience is going to feel oh-so-nauseated.
01/26/01
Top CriticToo often it comes up with sappiness where it needs sass.
01/26/01
Top CriticA lost cause that thinks rowdiness can compensate for a story that just plain doesn't make sense.
01/26/01
Top CriticBegins brightly, then wears on too long and too predictably.
01/26/01
Top CriticThe writing in Wedding Planner ... is simply not up to the task.
01/26/01
Top CriticThere are times when the movie's contrivance is agonizing.
01/26/01
Top CriticIt's as if the tone is at war with the content. Bright and bubbly, it endlessly chronicles bad behavior spun toward the positive.
01/26/01
Top CriticStrictly predictable.
01/25/01
Top CriticThe film is particularly good at lampooning wedding kitsch, especially the practice of choosing a wedding song to give a theme to a couple and their troth.
01/25/01
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