The big wedding movie review

Cast: Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Susan Sarandon, Katherine Heigl, Robin Williams, Amanda Seyfried, Ben Barnes, Topher Grace
Director: Justin Zackham
  The big wedding is about the family of the groom,played by Ben Barnes.His biological mother comes to visit the weekend before the wedding and because she is catholic and she believes that divorce is a sin, Ben Barnes'  adoptive divorced parents are forced to pretend that they are still together for the shake of their son.
  The house and the location where the movie is shot is beautiful.There are trees and a lake and a beautiful big house.I found the whole scenery magical,to be honest.I would love to live in a place like that one day.I think all of that made me like the movie more than i would normally like it(and i didn't really enjoy it that much).Also, i enjoyed the chemistry between Susan Sarandon and Diane Keaton.I would definitely watch a movie with the two of them as best friends.One other thing i liked was SPOILER ALERT!!! how Robert De Niro didn't end up with Diane Keaton but stayed with Susan Sarandon.I found it better than what usually happens in this type of movies,which is that the guy realises what he is missing dumps his girlfriend and goes back to his wife.
  However, i felt that the movie had a lot of misses.Firstly, i had a big problem with Topher Grace's character.He is a 30 year old virgin (which i am willing to believe),who as he claims is waiting for love, and who randomly decides to have sex with his adoptive brother's biological sister,while he had plenty of offers before that i might add.I thought that was very shallow and wasn't really something his character would have done.Another character that i didn't buy was the biological sister.She is supposed to have been raised by a very strict catholic mother but she seems to have no hesitation to sleep with a stranger.Which she then is convinced not to do just because of one thing that Diane Keaton tells her.She doesn't care about the million things ,i assume, her mother has said to her over the years but Diane Keaton tells her,one time, she deserves more and she suddenly decides to wait.I found her character the most annoying in the whole film.Moreover, i found it difficult to believe that Robert De Niro would so easily cheat on Susan Sarandon.I believe that he would cheat on her but maybe he would have some remorse or he would at least feel bad about it.I found that in the movie his cheating was treated very casually almost like nothing had happened.Finally, i thought that Barnes' biological mother contradicted her self and her beliefs a lot especially when she admitted that she knowingly dated a married man once and that Barnes' was really his son.I don't think she would be so harsh about divorce and any other sin if she had done all those things when she was younger.
Score: 30%

m.

Courtesy

Lionsgate