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2013
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Positive Reviews
5
Negative reviews
58
Average Rating
1.4
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1.5
The eternally slumming Robert De Niro stars as a successful sculptor, blessed with a rich, complicated romantic history.
Av Club
1.2
This leads to slapstick shenanigans, executed at a leisurely pace.
Av Club
1.5
For a movie with its overall color palette based on the ironic purity of its title event, The Big Wedding has a very bland look to it.
Den Of Geek
1.5
As affable a guy and avid a caver as Chris Nicola may be, hes no historian.
Austin Chronicle
1.5
Perplexingly, Zackham sidesteps the more fecund possibilities of the script.
Austin Chronicle
1.0
Its not the sheer predictability of the ensuing frolics thats hardest to take, or even the dismal attempts at humour (cunnilingus, stiffies, hand jobs ..
Time Out
2.5
For all its surface amiability, The Big Wedding might be one of the more frustrating films of the year.
Vulture
3.4
The story never quite gets over this awkward disjointedness, which isnt to say these splashes of color arent enjoyable, welcome relief in yet another ..
Paste Magazine
1.9
Its not the over familiar material a talented cast (and The Big Wedding certainly has one) can make tired jokes seem zippy.The problem is a lack of ef ..
Rogerebert
1.0
This is easily the most scandalous waste of on screen talent since Movie 43 and at least that movie inspired the kind of grim determination that made ..
E Film Critic
1.0
15 cert, 90 min Dir: Justin Zackham stars: Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Susan Sarandon, Robin Williams, Katherine Heigl The only truly big thing abou ..
Telegraph
1.0
When Robin Williams is the most understated thing in a comedy, something is off.
Ny Daily News
1.0
I really hated THE BIG WEDDING, but Ill give it this: its better than SCARY MOVIE 5.
JoBlo
3.0
Surprisingly, these ingredients combine to form an occasionally charming and, overall, strangely watchable variation on your average American comedy a ..
Screen Rant
2.5
Casting Be sure to have a cross generational assortment of names to maximize audience appeal.
The Globe And Mail
2.5
The relationships are mapped out without regard to plausibility or common sense, and certainly without consideration for emotional truth.Which is all ..
Philly
1.5
The result by the closewhich itself brings some truly weird, incredible revelationsis that the story has lost the most elementary basis in realism, wh ..
One Guys Opinion
0.0
Nothing more than a catalog of crass cliches acted out as affectations, its the worst kind of sad clown routine: mopey and vulgar, Don is reprehensibl ..
Village Voice
3.1
Coarse, crude but often cute, The Big Wedding serves up the spectacle of its title, and the bigger spectacle of four AARP eligible Oscar winners cursi ..
Rogers Movie Nation
0.5
Its how the movie begins, folks, and the next 80 minutes arent an improvement.
Blu Ray
1.3
Its brave enough to introduce a truly mixed family, but not brave enough to make them real.
Combust Ible Celluloid
2.0
A long divorced couple (Robert DeNiro, Diane Keaton) pretend to be married to help out their adopted son when his biological mother, a staunch Catholi ..
Chicago Reader
1.5
Despite all of those moving plot points, a fairly large and well known cast and some decidedly adult material, however, the film is fairly boring, ins ..
Screen It
2.5
Its the Jordan Almond you eat at the reception not because its tasty but because it looks pretty.Its the sort of movie best enjoyed while on the couch ..
The Wrap
2.0
Similarly, several of the plot revelations (particularly those relating to Rasche and Ebersoles characters) just dont ring true and end up feeling pai ..
View London
1.3
Viewers of this film will cry at having spent money for The Big Wedding.
News Day
1.3
Quaint and crass get together or would that be bump uglies with awkward, thoroughly flat results in The Big Wedding, an ensemble comedy with a tonal c ..
Boston
0.5
Thats a hard hurdle to clear and this miserably misguided mess couldnt make it over a speed bump.
Mountain X
2.0
(Despite a bit more connective tissue between characters, its of a piece with recent megacomedies like New Years Eve films that seem to believe shovin ..
Npr
1.0
Its a dishonest picture about people agreeing to tell lies in the cause of peace but eventually coming out with uncomfortable truths that somehow lead ..
Guardian
1.0
Weddings can often be occasions of trauma, as well as joy, and so it proves with this ensemble comedy.
Guardian
0.0
Blissfully unaware of its own racism, misogyny and homophobia, the film preaches bland tolerance of sexual peccadilloes and uses a lot of smutty langu ..
Daily Mail
1.0
While its nice to see talents like Keaton and Sarandon in The Big Wedding, its ultimately frustrating seeing their talents wasted in Zackhams paper th ..
Flim List
2.0
Its clear writer director Justin Zackham has tried to shake up the family rom com formula, but adding a lick of sex and some risque language wont do i ..
Empire
1.0
So awful that even the star studded, multi generational cast can barely stay afloat.
Susang Ranger
2.0
Its a shame that such a talented ensemble couldnt have gathered for a better movie.
Common Sense Media
2.0
But it gets worse, this poster.Katherine Heigl is well represented.
Movies
2.5
The presence of liked and familiar actors helps make it watchable, but there is no disguising that this is a weak, badly constructed comedy.At least i ..
Sf Gate
1.5
Just in time for wedding season is a film titled The Big Wedding.
Boston Herald
0.6
The Big Wedding has something to offend everyone.Based on the little seen French comedy Mon Frere Se Marie, Justin Zackhams adaptation squanders the t ..
Slant Magazine
1.0
The Big Wedding aims for big laughs and instead has a big fail Alejandro (Ben Barnes) is about to wed the lovely Missy (Amanda Seyfried) but his biolo ..
Express
2.5
This is an American movie trying, strenuously, to swing a little. The slapstick is broad and generally awkward.
Chicago Tribune
1.0
Somebody is bound to fall in the swimming pool.And thats always hilarious.
The Irish Times
1.9
Its tired and dated with too few laughs to justify the stultifying attempts at drama and the impossible to swallow plot contortions.
ReelViews
1.5
A game cast and lots of gamey R rated shenanigans cant compensate for the silly comic contrivances that dominate The Big Wedding.
Hollywood Reporter
2.0
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Standard
2.0
Instead, the talent and a great face, which is aging in such interesting ways, is wasted as Don, a sculptor of sometimes erotic figures.
Los Angeles Times
2.5
The film isnt so much funny as it is merely amusing a laundry list of inappropriate and potentially embarrassing moments that strive mightily, but nev ..
Variety
1.3
The genre seems to give filmmakers a license to indulge in predictable, overused jokes and half assed plot contrivances.
Aisle Seat
2.5
If that sounds like your idea of a fun 90 minutes, then odds are youll enjoy blushing your way through The Big Wedding.
Movies Tv Guide
0.0
makes one wonder what kind of salacious info writer/director Justin Zackham has for blackmail purposes to get a cast like this to agree to appear in a ..
Maki At The Movies
0.6
The plot is as silly as something from an old sitcom.An extended family gathers for a family wedding.
Three Movie Buffs
2.0
The twists and revelations might have worked in a broader comedy, but Zackham is angling for a warts n all family portrait with touchy feely moments t ..
Digital Spy
0.0
Id rather gouge my eyes out with hot spoons! De Niro exclaims at one point. Im not sure exactly what he was talking about, but Id like to think it ref ..
New York Post
0.6
The film was delayed from the fall, assumedly so if the Mayan apocalypse really hit, the cast could have a silver lining.
Red Eye Chicago
1.3
No, The Big Wedding comes closer to reminding of 2007s dumb as a box of hair farce License to Wed .
Dustin Put Man
3.0
But the script is more interested in humiliating its characters than finding any genuine humour.
Contact Music
2.5
Sure, its one of those pointless Western adaptations of a presumably better French farce.It contains enough performance goodwill to get us past the la ..
Film Racket
3.8
The Big Wedding is not a classic, or even really memorable, by any means, but considering the pit it starts at, it gets off light. And thats better th ..
ComingSoon
2.0
Only go and see it if you read this list and thought each and every situation was delightfully original and side splittingly hilarious.
The Shiz Nit
1.0
Engagement of ones time with either film is equally objectionable.
The Skinny
2.0
Peculiarly set on proving that puerile gags arent just for youths, this gross out comedy, presumably aimed at oldies, is just about watchable thanks t ..
Metro
1.5
But I simply cant forgive the film of one of its final exchanges, which draws a new line in absurdly corny hack writing.
Movie Mezzanine
1.0
If its possible to buy into the central pretence, accepting Barnes as a Colombian needs the acting equivalent of turning coal into diamonds.
The National
1.8
It includes Amanda Seyfried, Katherine Heigl, Topher Grace, Susan Sarandon and Robin Williams.The humor is tired and full of cliches.
Movie Chambers
2.0
Synopsis Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to witness an all star cast caught in various compromising positions over one chaotic wedding weekend.Ro ..
Sky
1.5
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Richard Roeper
1.0
They treat it like a bottle of beautiful wine, a delightful pleasure best shared among friends.
O Canada
2.0
You could even enjoy the stupidity of going to someone elses wedding without a hat.
Birmingham Mail
0.6
Being randy and risque replaces actual emotion and liking the characters on screen.We even get a bunch of jokes about Don getting drunk, after we have ..
Dc5
2.5
But the vows cant be made without a lot of clumsily executed and farcical shenanigans.
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0.0
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Kam Williams
2.2
DUNT DUNT DUNNNN!.The Big Wedding is mostly weird and not good, but I would pay to Kickstart the kernel of Harmony Korine esque genre prank thats buri ..
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