Day #26 - Love Wedding Repeat

Jack just wants his sister, Hayley, to have the perfect wedding day. This includes drugging someone who wants to ruin it. He also wants to rekindle the flames of a lost potential love. How many ways can it go wrong? Turns out, a lot.

I have a love-hate relationship with this film. It is basically in two halves. Both halves could be their own movie - it's as if the writers wrote two different stories and couldn't decide which one they liked best, so they smashed them together and added an awkward, sped-up transition scene.

I think the thing that most annoys me about this film is that it has such a fantastic cast who are all clearly passionate about the film, it was just executed badly. The concept of the film is really interesting; playing with fate and chance, what happens at a wedding depends on where eight people sit at a table. The fact that only two realities are shown and the rest are shown in a really weird, fast-paced montage takes away from the point of the film.

I love the first half, showing the first reality. It's so funny, the characters play off each other so well and the storyline is a very classic comedy of miscommunication. It has such a great flow and then, suddenly, it stops, rewinds and we are sent into an alternate reality where everyone gets a happy ending. If only they had put the happy ending after the first reality then this could have been a great, classic romcom. If only they had gone into more of the alternate storylines a little more then they could have made a truly great movie.

But they didn't. There was so much that I wanted from this film. I probably had too high expectations based on the cast and the trailers. It was disappointing, which is a real shame.

The idea of the different timelines still intrigues me, though. Hopefully, one day, someone can make it happen, successfully.