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Critics Consensus: Ang Lee's funny and ultimately poignant comedy of manners reveals the filmmaker's skill across genres.
Critic Consensus: Ang Lee's funny and ultimately poignant comedy of manners reveals the filmmaker's skill across genres.
All Critics (28) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (1) | DVD (2)
A very adroit and entertaining social comedy.
Most of this is smoothly done and scripted with plenty of incident.
Never patronising his characters, Ang Lee combines comedy, both subtle and raucous, with acute social asides.
It is the unusual film comedy in which the humor springs as much from character as from situation.
The Wedding Banquet never becomes bogged down by its own seriousness. Lee manages to keep the production buoyant by including scenes that are often riotously funny.
A sweet, perceptive story about the cost of deception and the power of family rituals.
Melodrama, rather than comedy, prevails. But at last, The Wedding Banquet becomes surprisingly satisfying, as it reaches its humane and sweet final course.
By balancing comedy and drama and focusing on real solutions to real problems, Lee creates a film that pulses with the feeling of real life.
Lee sustains the bubbling hilarity, but also provides quieter, deeper observation of the characters' motives and moods.
This tale of a marriage of convenience charms and amuses with strong comedic performances with a great script and some beautifully shot sequences.
Cultural clashes all over the place in this sweet and gently comedy.
Lee's control of his characters is already pretty masterful: this is a smart, funny and moving work.
I thought this was a really good movie dragged down with needless melodrama in the last 25 minutes or so, poor English dialogue (and some corny subtitles for Mandarin during the melodramatic moments), pacing being hit and miss, and just an overall poor performance from Winston Chao. Other than that, this movie is quite good. There's some funny scenes in the movie, but if it was supposed to be hilarious then I never got it, other than the banquet scene, which was entertaining but also went on too goddamn long. The movie has a good story that had the potential to be better than it really was. Everything in this movie just feels like a missed opportunity. It's a massively disappointing movie since it just doesn't stand the test of time, especially compared to some of Ang's later films. But again, it's still a good movie, just one I wouldn't exactly recommend.
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Wonderful portrait of what seems like a good idea at the time which spins wildly out of control and changes everyone involved, ultimately for the better even if its not immediately apparent at the time. Beautiful ending.
Ang Lee's portrayal of the hot gay love pre-Brokeback. It's sweeter, wittier, and infinitely more Asian. The girl was a bitch.
No wonder Ang Lee was so capable in making Brokeback Mountain since this is his first & Asian version!
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