After inadvertently killing his girlfriend with a bottle of baby lotion – don’t ask – Anderson (Biggs) has spent the past year face down on his couch, clinging desperately to the memories of his lost love.
Eager to rouse him from this suicidal depression, Ted (Weston) takes Anderson to the local diner and tells him to look around... there’s plenty more fish in the sea.
Rising to the challenge Anderson spots a beautiful waitress, Katie (Fisher), and - as you do - asks her to marry him, despite never having laid eyes on her before.
Spurred on by problems in her own love life – she is just about to get married to a gay charades enthusiast – she accepts, igniting a curious love affair that involves cock rings, escaped convicts and OAP sex. How romantic.
They say:
Total Film: "The wedding of American Pie’s sweet underlay and the harder frat gags of Porky’s”
Empire: "It may be predictable stuff but it's truly charming in places.”
Channel 4 Films: “If Michael Ian Black makes another film like Wedding Daze, this reviewer will do time for him.”
We say:
Pairing the pie fucker and the psycho chick from Wedding Crashers isn’t exactly a marriage made in heaven, but it’s also not the unholy union we had expected.
From the first scene we see that Biggs is on familiar likeable fool form, dressed up in a pair of tiny Y fronts and smeared in baby oil, much to the disgust of a room full of diners that he has stumbled in on.
Fisher too puts in an enjoyable turn as the cooky but cute love interest and it’s nice to see lead role status being given to a ginger for once.
Writer/ director Michael Ian Black’s debut gives a fresh twist on the standard rom com format and his screenplay includes plenty of laugh out loud moments and witty lines like “Ménage a trios? That’s French for ‘who’s that guy?’”
At only 90 minutes long the plot rips along at a decent pace thanks to lively cameos from Joe “The Fugitive” Pantoliano (who spends a disconcerting amount of time in his pants) and Edward Herrmann as Anderson’s sex obsessed old man.
It’s just a shame that after the brilliant start things go slowly downhill until the predictably messy ending. Mind you, isn’t that what marriage is all about?
CAST
Jason Biggs
Isla Fisher
Joe Pantoliano
Joanna Gleason
Edward Herrmann
Margo Martindale
Michael Weston
DIRECTOR
Michael Ian Black
TIME
91 mins
POSTED...
Sat 2 Jun 2007 at 1:13pm
