jayantaneul-44343
One of the funniest movie I've seen. Kevin Hart nailed his Role in this movie. As you've seen from the Synopsis , this movie is about a loner guy named Doug who needs a best man and 7 groomsmen for his wedding .So Jimmy comes to the rescue. The comic time is on-spot.
The story is was good but not that unique. This movie is best if want to enjoy some good comedy.
If you liked the movie 'That's My Boy' , then you'll defienatly like this. Finally I want say that this movie is definitely worth your time.
jadavix
"The Wedding Ringer" is another modern comedy that tries to have it both ways. It goes for gross-out, outrageous humour, referencing topics like child abuse and zoophilia, but also tries for moments of soppiness. It gets neither, perhaps because the script is just so clichéd and yet poorly assembled that it seems to lurch from one familiar moment to the next. It's like the movie has a split personality, one good, one evil, both exhausted.The movie opens with the suave, charming pretend best man played by Kevin Hart (is he the "Wedding Ringer" of the title? What is a "wedding ringer"?) killing it in his role as a best friend for hire, fooling everyone with a marvelous speech. The guy who hired him thinks they might actually be friends, but no! Hart is a cold S.O.B. who is only in it for the money. But could he possibly have a heart (no pun intended) after all? Anyway, our hero tracks him down to employ his services as a best man for his own wedding - he's an average looking fat guy with no friends who has improbably convinced some blonde babe to marry him: Kaley Cuoco, who has made a career of playing the blonde babe with an improbable connection to quirky geeks and misfits.If you aren't clichéd out by now, it gets worse: Kevin Hart doesn't want take the job! He laughs in the hero's face!Just once I would like to see a movie which begins with someone being offered a job and them accepting it. Why do they ALWAYS have to turn it down at first? Of course, something happens - who cares what, it's so trite you stop paying attention - to make Hart change his mind.Then we get obligatory scenes of Hart and the loser hero - Josh Gad, I think the actor who plays him is called - rehearsing for their pretend friendship. In a wiser comedy, this material could actually be poignant and truthful, but of course it just goes for silly montages showing ridiculous ways of faking photos to convince people they have a history.The movie gets more than a little weird in its reliance on cliché when Hart has to assemble a group of groomsmen who will also pretend to be the loser hero's friends, and exclusively chooses weirdos. Why would someone as gifted at the con as Hart's character is shoot himself in the foot so ridiculously by choosing his partners in crime so poorly? They look like they're not even from the same universe as him. I fear, reader, it is because believable conmen like Hart's character would become a bit creepy if we saw them fool everybody to that extent. Not to be - we need easy laughs, again, to distract from the essential sadness of the movie's premise, that some people don't have friends and have to buy them to avoid embarrassment. We don't get those laughs, but never mind. If the movie didn't lose me here, the "Bachelor Party"/"Hangover Part Twelve" scene that came soon after did. We needed the gross out, and the graphic male nudity, so we get a party which spirals out of control and, wouldn't you know it, all the freaky groomsmen's weirdness comes in handy after all, as if this were a kids' movie circa 1994, trying to teach us to value the individuality of people.Or, you know, perhaps the filmmakers just ran out of grown up movie clichés and started ripping off "The Mighty Ducks". There is also an obligatory sports scene, with quick editing of people getting rammed into, falling over, getting muddy... and then the heroes winning, despite the presence of the 6'10" Ed "Too Tall" Jones, a football hero in real life, and another guy who's 6'6". They could have made this scene at least halfway believable by casting average guys. What was the point of making the opposite team actual NFL retirees? You know how it's going to end between Hart & Gad. What may be harder to believe is that they try for a sweet moment after some of the other garbage the movie contains. It veers between gross out and glucose to quickly it could give you whiplash. Hart does have a few funny moments though. As with "Get Hard", he is the only thing about this movie that works.
timkjohansen
Everything about this movie is bad. There is little to no character development and the whole movie seems rushed and badly written. It felt like a mash of scenes taken from other popular comedies and then ultimately tweaked making them even less funny than their counterparts.I mean I get it the writers have brought in Kevin Hart and made a familiar sounding title and a familiar sounding plot and then they've tried to cram in all of the tried and tested methods from every popular romantic comedy over the last 10 years. The main plot is a mix between the movies Hitch and I Love You Man and the family scenes feel like recreations from movies like The Wedding Crashers and Meet The Fockers and then we have the male bonding/ party scenes that are recreations of films like Old School and The Hangover. But the problem is just that, the film feels like a mash up of all of these familiar films with nothing new to offer.At first glance this movie seems to be a recipe for mainstream success but it forgets one major thing. If you're story sucks and your characters are shallow and poorly drawn then the film is going to be terrible no matter what actors you have or what popular themes and scenes from popular movies that you recreate.
Floated2
The Wedding Ringer starring Kevin Hard, and Josh Gad. The film starts out with Doug Harris (Gad) having a problem. He's about to get married to Gretchen (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting), but he doesn't have any friends, and therefore no best man or groomsmen. The wedding planner sniffs this out and suggests that Doug meet Jimmy Callahan (Hart), who runs a business providing services for men who need a best man. Doug, however, doesn't just need a best man: he needs a best man and a whopping seven groomsmen, something Jimmy has joked about but never executed before. The groomsmen Jimmy recruits are less than ideal, but Doug goes along with it given the circumstances. As Doug and Jimmy get to know each other – Jimmy has a strict 'This is a business arrangement, and we are not friends' policy – and as Gretchen's family gets to know Jimmy, lines get blurred.The Wedding Ringer is a solid comedy for a film released in January. As pointed out, the film delivers what one would expect and is better due to the odd yet good pairing of Kevin Hart and Josh Gad. Although it is somewhat predictable, the humor and comedic jokes do deliver
