Director: Dean Craig
Genre: Comedy/
Romance
Runtime: 100
minutes
Year: 2020
Starring: Sam Claflin,
Olivia Munn, Freida Pinto, Joel Fry, Eleanor Tomlinson, Jack Farthing, Tim Key,
Allan Mustafa, Aisling Bea
Description: While trying
to make his sister’s (Eleanor Tomlinson) wedding day go smoothly, Jack (Sam
Claflin) finds himself juggling an angry ex-girlfriend (Freida Pinto), an
uninvited guest (Jack Farthing) with a secret, a misplaced sleep sedative, and
the girl who got away (Olivia Munn) in alternate versions of the same day.
I WATCHED THIS MOVIE FOR MY 2023 MOVIE CHALLENGE.
WEEK 10: A BRITISH COMEDY
Review: Chance can be an asshole. That’s what the voice-over states. In “Love
Wedding Repeat”, everything revolves around chance and the capricious twist of
fate. Table arrangements at a wedding turn out to be vital. Only one
arrangement has a positive outcome for all the guest, but which one? Fortunately,
after a big mistake, the characters just get to try again.
The concept sounds like a
lot of fun, but “Love Wedding Repeat” makes almost no use of the concept of cyclical
time. Director Dean Craig stupidly chops his romcom about parallel universes
into two parts: in the first part of the film, the wedding goes disastrously,
in the second part, everything goes completely according to plan.
Unfortunately, there is a
very big drawback to this setup. Jack, the main character, is completely
unaware that alternate realities exist. And because he lacks this knowledge, he
will therefore not try to influence the course of his own future (or that of
others). A missed opportunity, because the self-repeating caus-and-effect gam
is precisely what makes a “time loop” movie, like for example “Groundhog Day” or
“Edge of Tomorrow”, so entertaining.
A whole battalion of idiotic
characters are assembled for the wedding ceremony. Jealous exes, a cocaine head,
a sleepy maid of honor, and a chatty man in a kilt who is very itchy. They are
meant to make you laugh, but they don’t manage. “Love Wedding Repeat” is rarely
truly funny, yet many of the situations are very uncomfortable to watch.
They could have done so many
great things with this premise, yet they totally missed the mark. Shame,
because with talented performers like Sam Claflin and Freida Pinto, it could
have been a lot better.
Rating: 2/
5
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