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Our Family Wedding
EMAILPRINTFox Searchlight Pictures
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 23 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by:
Rick Famuyiwa
Malcolm Spellman
Wayne Conley
Directed by: Rick Famuyiwa
Release Date:
Theatrical: March 12, 2010
Running Time: 90 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for some sexual content and brief strong language
Starring Forest Whitaker, America Ferrera, Carlos Mencia, Regina King, and Lance Gross
"Our marriage, their wedding." It's lesson number one for any newly engaged couple, and Lucia and Marcus are no exception. In Our Family Wedding, they learn the hard way that the path to saying "I do" can be rife with familial strife. When they return from college and too suddenly announce their marriage plans, they soon discover that their fathers - two highly competitive over-the-top egos - can wreak a major amount of havoc on their special day. (Fox Searchlight)
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What The Critics Said
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Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
A breezy, uncomplicated, unapologetically broad comedy.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
A formulaic wedding comedy about mismatched families, but thanks to several appealing performances this rote exercise turns out better than most.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
The movie is made livelier by its bit players -- King, Murphy, Lupe Ontiveros as Lucia’s bigoted grandma, Anna Maria Horseford as Marcus’s grandmother, Shannyn Sossamon as one of Whitaker’s airhead girlfriends, and, best of all, Anjelah Johnson as Lucia’s car-mechanic sister.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Ferrera and Gross are the most appealing pair I've seen in awhile; their calm confidence is a welcome antidote to the unrealistic couples who've been cluttering our screens way too long.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
The contrived insult comedy here feels old, borrowed and blue.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
A pleasant but inconsequential comedy, awkward for the actors, and contrived from beginning to end.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
The families' hopes for a tasteful, upscale wedding are sabotaged by warring egos and low-rent, walking-stereotype relatives.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
While patience is a virtue in a marriage, we shouldn't need quite this much to make it through a movie.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden
Though the intended hilarity is forced and flat, there's a sweetness to the silliness.
Read Full Review >Variety Justin Chang
This broad ethnic farce serves up a full-on culture collision, but -- thanks to a handful of diverting performers -- stops just short of becoming a train wreck.
Read Full Review >New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott
It has a sweet quality, and Forest Whitaker gets a chance to show off his comic chops.
Read Full Review >Boxoffice Magazine Sara Schieron
It’d all be pretty ho-hum weren’t it for some decent chemistry between the leads and the effortless presence of Regina King and Forest Whitaker.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Be prepared to swallow a lot of empty-calorie jokes in which blacks and Latinos insult and misunderstand one another in a spirit of vigorous buffoonery.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey
Instead of invitations, they should be sending out apologies for Our Family Wedding, a cake-and-kisses comedy that has disaster written all over it and not for the right reasons.
Read Full Review >Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore
A broad and formulaic culture-clash comedy built on fill-in-the-blank wedding comedy clichés.
Read Full Review >St. Louis Post-Dispatch Kevin C. Johnson
Director Rick Famuyiwa did much better when focusing just on African-American culture in films such as "Brown Sugar" and "The Wood." Here, in bringing together two cultures, he does neither any favors.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
Alternately rancid and ridiculous, strident and sickly sweet, Our Family Wedding”offers plenty that’s old, borrowed and blue; it’s the something new that’s missing.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
We know to a certainty what will happen. More to the point, the writers know that we know. But here’s the intriguing bit: They don’t care. Rather, their job as diligent Tinseltown hacks is simply to devise ways of filling up the remaining 90 minutes.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
A cringeworthy, unfunny example of a culture-clash romantic comedy.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Aaron Hillis
Might've made for a progressive film if director and co-writer Rick Famuyiwa (Brown Sugar) hadn't pandered to the lowest common denominator with brainless screwball laughs.
Read Full Review >Time Out New York Nick Schager
Aside from an uncomfortable-looking Carlos Mencia, who seems to actively cower before the camera, the cast is robotically efficient--though that’s not the same thing as coming out of this lifeless mess unscathed.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
We remain a nation divided, but hopefully we’ve at least progressed beyond the need for clumsy message movies about racial tolerance, as fortified with dick jokes.
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