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Date: 06 May 2006 23:11:21
Well I've just been to see
I thoroughly enjoyed it! It is funny in a very gently heartwarming way but with a streak of bizzare almost surreal weirdness too.
I'm not just saying it's good because my sister cast it! (honestly I'm not)!
Speaking as a person who can often take or leave films, this is one I would really like to see again. As my friend said as we we leaving the cinema, "I really love fims where you can't stop smiling at the end!"
The basic plot is that a wedding magazine offers a big prize to the couple who plan the most original wedding of the year. This leaves three couples, naturist, tennis mad and into 1930's/40's musicals vying for the prize. Add in a couple of gay wedding planners, an unprincipalled magazine owner and a slightly sharp magazine editor and you have the basic structure of it all.
It isa really interesting film too as it was all completely improvised by the actors. The writer didn't know exactly how the weddings would turn out or who would win, until the day that they actually filmed it.
It is funny in a very gentle warm way. With actors who have starred in the likes of The Office and Greenwing, you might expect more sharp edged humour and I think some of the critics have had reservations about it because it's not like this. I really liked it though. There were some lovely one liners just thrown in (Wedding planner to magazine editor: "Well working with a woman who only wears things she has knitted herself is going to be interesting.") There is an awful lot of "nothing left to the imagination" nudity in the film which is why I guess it's a 15 but it's all of the innocent "this is what the human body happens to look like" naturist kind, rather than anything more sexual or erotic.
If I had one criticism, it was that the real finale (not telling you what because I don't want to spoil it for you) was just a bit too polished and at that point I found it a bit hard to suspend my disbelief, but thats a minor point really.
I left the film feeling really happy. For me this was a combination of the unashamedly feel-good ending and the slight wackiness of the whole film.
Go and see it if you can!