There's a kid in this film that concerns me. He stays up until late in the evening listening to conversations that are not his business, he travels to Jamaica without his parents
He's just a kid, and the first time we meet him he says: "Reverend Frank is everywhere". And who is Reverend Frank? A guy who makes wedding preparation courses to see if people are ready to get married
Maybe the kid is his sinful son or something like that.
For Ben's (John Krasinski) bad luck, Sadie (Mandy Moore) wants to get married where their parents got married a long time ago; and that's Reverend Frank's church, so they have to do the course. For our good luck, the Reverend is played by Robin Williams, with the charm only the best actor can put to a role as annoying as his And if you think he's exaggerating in this film or that he is over the top; think again and watch "Man of the year".
Besides the kid (Josh Flitter) and the Reverend, we find more annoying people that Ben and Sadie meet during the course. In fact, you could say "License to wed" is a movie about a couple who can't get married because of the annoying human beings around them. You could also say that is more of a comedy than a romantic comedy; or at least that's what the screenplay makes it look like. Don't get me wrong, there is a romantic element; but is more of an element to create comedy than an element by itself.
In this posture, there are two scenes of impressive comic timing. One occurs during a family reunion to discuss some things about the wedding; the other one inside of a car. Both scenes are made better by the leads Krasinski and Moore; and if Krasinski didn't have those expressions and Moore wasn't so natural and winning, we wouldn't even feel the romance.
I must mention the wasted talent in the cast, actors who look like they are part of a big joke Christine Taylor as Moore's sister, she does nothing; Peter Strauss as Moore's father does a bit more; Grace Zabriskie as Moore's grandma, I think she speaks four lines. Anyway, the rest of the family is really unimportant here.
The film, with no photographic tricks or stunts, was directed by a guy from television, Ken Kwapis. I seriously don't know what got him in to this film, but he achieves a final scene that plays as a nice distortion of the clichéd romantic comedy ending. If you tolerated the whole film, that scene is refreshing and uplifting; because of the honest writing and the exotic setting It had been a while since I had watched a contagious ending in a romantic comedy.
For Ben's (John Krasinski) bad luck, Sadie (Mandy Moore) wants to get married where their parents got married a long time ago; and that's Reverend Frank's church, so they have to do the course. For our good luck, the Reverend is played by Robin Williams, with the charm only the best actor can put to a role as annoying as his And if you think he's exaggerating in this film or that he is over the top; think again and watch "Man of the year".
Besides the kid (Josh Flitter) and the Reverend, we find more annoying people that Ben and Sadie meet during the course. In fact, you could say "License to wed" is a movie about a couple who can't get married because of the annoying human beings around them. You could also say that is more of a comedy than a romantic comedy; or at least that's what the screenplay makes it look like. Don't get me wrong, there is a romantic element; but is more of an element to create comedy than an element by itself.
In this posture, there are two scenes of impressive comic timing. One occurs during a family reunion to discuss some things about the wedding; the other one inside of a car. Both scenes are made better by the leads Krasinski and Moore; and if Krasinski didn't have those expressions and Moore wasn't so natural and winning, we wouldn't even feel the romance.
I must mention the wasted talent in the cast, actors who look like they are part of a big joke Christine Taylor as Moore's sister, she does nothing; Peter Strauss as Moore's father does a bit more; Grace Zabriskie as Moore's grandma, I think she speaks four lines. Anyway, the rest of the family is really unimportant here.
The film, with no photographic tricks or stunts, was directed by a guy from television, Ken Kwapis. I seriously don't know what got him in to this film, but he achieves a final scene that plays as a nice distortion of the clichéd romantic comedy ending. If you tolerated the whole film, that scene is refreshing and uplifting; because of the honest writing and the exotic setting It had been a while since I had watched a contagious ending in a romantic comedy.