Lack of good storyline.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

In an attempt to adhere to its genre and ensure happy endings all around, the movie reaches a thoroughly contrived and unsatisfying conclusion. There is no way, if you found out your sister had been having an affair with your partner of 7 years and fiancé and that was the reason he had left you that you would stay at her wedding or comfort her the next day while she is crying because she told her husband to be the truth and he ditched her. I am pretty sure the sane thing in that situation would be to ditch the wedding and never speak to her again. Similarly, there is no way that if you just found out the woman you are about to marry has been sleeping with your best friend and best man, that you would run off and then 2 seconds later, return and proceed to marry this person. This movie should have ended with the wedding being called off, and an X number of years later scene where the sister bumps into Messings' character and they reconcile or something. And then maybe the sister attends Messings wedding to the escort guy and meets someone new. Or brings an escort of her own because her ex fiancé will be there and then they eventually reconcile. There is no conceivable way that after finding out about the sister's betrayal, that the audience would want an immediate happy ending for this person, as in her sister and husband to be forgive her almost instantly. It is utterly ludicrous and reduces the entire movie to a joke. Once the imbecile fiancé started running back to the church to marry his cheating fiancé, I turned off the movie straight away because I will not give the featherbrained writers of this garbage the satisfaction of watching such a pathetic conclusion to a movie.

The Wedding Date (2005) is a fair and decent romantic comedy. I really did enjoy the casting, Debra Messing did a good job and Amy Adams did as well, and of course the very sexy Dermot was the perfect romantic interest. Dermot's acting was very real and impressive, and the chemistry between all the actors on screen was spot on too. The script is pretty decent and alright, not the greatest dialogue in the world, but it sufficed. The sex scene was well shot and was very sweet, gentle, and sensual, which is how a good sex scene should work. I liked the romance and to be honest, the film got better as it went on. Early on the movie was dragging some, and it needed to pick up the pace. The movie as I said, got better with that as it went along. And I didn't mind seeing Dermot strip down lol, what can I say, it was nice. And the cousin in the movie was hilarious, loved her character. 6/10

Maybe it's because the two leads are fast approaching middle age, but I actually enjoyed parts of this chick flick, directed by a chick. Make no mistake: it is pure fantasy, much like PRETTY WOMAN and MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING, but I was able to go along with most of it thanks to solid acting by Debra Messing of "Will and Grace" fame. Here, she plays a neurotic and lonely female whose kid sister (Amy Adams) is about to get married. When Messing's character finds out her ex-beau is to be the best man, she hires a pricey male escort to pose as her boyfriend. Typical hijinks ensue, although there is a dramatic undercurrent to this fluffy plot. Various secrets are revealed, and they ain't all funny. For reasons best known to the writer(s), the movie is set in England, which for my money was a mistake. But then, I am not a female, whose gender I suspect will find the setting romantic. We've seen it all before, of course, but keep an eye on Messing, who gives her woebegone character depth and dimension. Dermot Mulroney gets to stand around and look elegant, but I didn't buy the unexpected romance angle. Veteran character actor Peter Egan steals all his scenes as Messing's loving stepdad, and Holland Taylor plays her patented insufferable family matriarch. Strictly for the ladies.

In my opinion, the movie could have been so much more. I wonder if the jacket was written by someone who watched the movie before the editor finished slicing and dicing. Many of the deleted scenes should have been left in. Other scenes would have made more sense (Amy asking Nick if he told her for instance) and the humor the jacket spoke of, would have been much more apparent. At several points we were left wondering where a scene was going only to have it cut away without resolution. Other times, it was as if some crucial lead-in had been left out.The story might be a bit cliché but the writing was passable and the acting and characters were believable enough. The settings, cinematography lighting etc, were great and I like the actors. However, none of this was enough to elevate this movie out of mediocrity.I would have a DVD for sale but then I'd be guilty of criminal behavior, if not as bad as the one those responsible for the way this film turned out perpetrated. The editing crew appear to be guilty of felony film vandalism.