I received a ticket to a free screening of this film last night and am thankful. Thankful that I got to see it, and thankful that I didn't have to pay theatre prices to do so.
It isn't a bad film. Admittedly, the chief reason I decided to go was because I knew that Anthony Head was in it (of "Buffy" and "Little Britain" fame) and I'm a sucker for him. But I heard the film's premise and it sounded cute and the trailer looked funny. The good news is, the film is funny. I laughed aloud at several points and generally had an amused smile on my face throughout.
Where the film fails is in the interpersonal relationships of its characters. And unfortunately, as a romantic comedy, it was incumbent that it nail these. The basic premise, that at her wedding to her long-time love and best friend, a woman falls in love with the wedding's florist (who also happens to be a woman), it is utterly necessary that we believe that these two women are head-over-heels for each other in order for the film to work. And it never convinced me of that. For the life of me I couldn't understand why they loved each other. It felt like the film spent so much time making it funny and making sure you felt the bride's indecision that it forgot to tell us why she fell in love with the florist and why the florist, and her husband, fell in love with her.
Why I'm glad I went is because there were some truly terrific performances in it by the supporting cast. Particularly Boo Jackson as Rachel's younger sister and Matthew Goode as the hard-done-by husband. You felt for him in every scene. Head was also charming as always but showing range as a man who has just been getting by for the past forty years.
So I wouldn't shell out the ten bucks to see it in the theatre but I do think it is a worthy rental.
It isn't a bad film. Admittedly, the chief reason I decided to go was because I knew that Anthony Head was in it (of "Buffy" and "Little Britain" fame) and I'm a sucker for him. But I heard the film's premise and it sounded cute and the trailer looked funny. The good news is, the film is funny. I laughed aloud at several points and generally had an amused smile on my face throughout.
Where the film fails is in the interpersonal relationships of its characters. And unfortunately, as a romantic comedy, it was incumbent that it nail these. The basic premise, that at her wedding to her long-time love and best friend, a woman falls in love with the wedding's florist (who also happens to be a woman), it is utterly necessary that we believe that these two women are head-over-heels for each other in order for the film to work. And it never convinced me of that. For the life of me I couldn't understand why they loved each other. It felt like the film spent so much time making it funny and making sure you felt the bride's indecision that it forgot to tell us why she fell in love with the florist and why the florist, and her husband, fell in love with her.
Why I'm glad I went is because there were some truly terrific performances in it by the supporting cast. Particularly Boo Jackson as Rachel's younger sister and Matthew Goode as the hard-done-by husband. You felt for him in every scene. Head was also charming as always but showing range as a man who has just been getting by for the past forty years.
So I wouldn't shell out the ten bucks to see it in the theatre but I do think it is a worthy rental.