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This is one of those movies you wouldn't spend a dime to see in the theater or even rent on disc, but when it showed up on Netflix Instant and I was home alone I gave it a go.
It's not good by any stretch. It's one of those movies that puts a very pretty actress (the always entertaining Kristen Bell) in braces and glasses and pretends that she's ugly. Of course she grows up to be beautiful and successful because the alternative is apparently unthinkable in these movies. Thankfully there was no makeover scene, so we're just led to believe that she just grew out of her acne, got contacts, and developed a fashion sense.
Wackiness ensues when she finds out that her brother is marrying her high school nemesis. It hits all the expected cliches. In a nutshell: former dork finds out her brother is marrying her nemesis, nemesis pretends to not remember previous torment, former dork plots to out nemesis through various silly schemes that backfire (former dork gets denture glue in hair resulting in bad haircut, falls on ant hill and gets red and itchy, etc), former dork ups the ante and outs nemesis at wedding rehearsal dinner, nemesis repents, lavish last minute wedding is thrown out of nowhere, former dork ends up with bland guy she thought was cute in high school. The end.
The thing that kept this movie in the "bad but fun" category instead of just bad was the casting. It's like they knew the material wasn't very good, so for every silly scene where something stupid happens they add someone awesome. Former dork making a scene on an airplane when she learns her brother is marrying her nemesis? Make The Rock the air marshal. Genius! Then it just keeps going from there. Victor Garber and Jamie Lee Curtis as Kristen Bell's parents? Well done! Betty White as grandma? Delightful as always! Sigourney Weaver as the aunt of the nemesis? Yay! Throw in some Kristin Chenoweth, cameos by Cloris Leachman, Patrick Duffy, and you hardly notice that you're watching grown women throw food at each other. Have Hall and Oates show up to serenade us through the credits and you find yourself having enjoyed a movie you didn't really like.
And isn't that more than you can ask for, really?
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