#THE WEDDING RINGER PROFESSIONAL#
He looks down on his customers because he sees them as losers who need a professional transaction in order to have, or pretend to have, any friends.
There’s a lot of discussion of why Doug doesn’t have any friends, which in turn prompts Jimmy to do some soul-seeking on his own. (Including, of course, the bad stuff can we just set a moratorium on gay-wedding-planner jokes?)īut unlike the freewheeling, see-what-sticks style of most comedies today, The Wedding Ringer veers between broad, foulmouthed schtick and deeply earnest philosophizing.
#THE WEDDING RINGER MOVIE#
In other words, just about everything in The Wedding Ringer feels like something you’ve seen in another movie before. There’s also a solid slapstick bit about accidentally setting Cloris Leachman on fire (if you’ve seen the trailers, you’ve basically seen the entire gag), which could have easily come from a Farrelly Brothers comedy. There’s a funny, way-too-intense, Wedding Crashers–style pickup-football game involving Doug’s wedding party, Gretchen’s domineering father, and a bunch of NFL veterans, including Joe Namath and John Riggins. (“I want seven vaginas in my face!” one of them demands.)Īnyway, there’s some chuckle-worthy stuff here, some of it having to do with the Hangover/ Bridesmaids-style hedonism of Jimmy (now named Bic Mitchum) and Doug’s pre-wedding antics. So Doug and Jimmy set about auditioning a bunch of Jimmy’s go-to guys to be Doug’s set of bros, and they’re a predictably odd bunch, in it for both the money and for the potential of hooking up with bridesmaids. Hart as Jimmy talks fast and has an answer for everything - he rattles off different best-man package options like “Basic Single Ring Wing Man” and “The Bronze Bow Tie” like they were familiar menu items - but what Doug is asking for is mythical, nearly impossible - “The Golden Tux,” a best man and an entire set of groomsmen. He not only needs a best man, he actually needs friends in general. Josh Gad plays Doug, a schlubby, well-to-do lawyer who’s due to be married to lovely but potentially Bridezilla-ish Gretchen (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting).
But Jeremy Garelick’s occasionally very funny film sticks to the high-concept logline: It’s I Love You, Man meets Wedding Crashers.
#THE WEDDING RINGER FULL#
It’s an imaginative idea, one full of satirical possibilities - just typing that above description made me think of all the intriguing directions The Wedding Ringer could have gone in. He swoops in, gives soulful wedding speeches, charms everyone (including a bridesmaid or two), and then he’s off - though, for an additional fee, he’ll keep sending cards on your birthday and, if necessary, speak at your funeral, too. Hart plays Jimmy Callahan, a professional who, for a price, will come to the aid of mostly friendless, soon-to-be-wed men and pretend to be their lifelong buddy and best man for a weekend. So it’s interesting to see him so dedicated in The Wedding Ringer, a mostly disposable, occasionally quite funny bromance distinguished at times by its earnestness. He’s an intense presence, but he often floats above his movies.
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