The Wedding Video
The Wedding Video
Raif, a shambolic oaf with a unique sense of humour, is asked to be his brother Tim’s best man when he marries Saskia. To Raif’s surprise, he finds his once-bohemian brother is marrying into Cheshire’s most socially aspirant family. Saskia’s grandmother, Patricia would give Hyacinth Bucket a run for her money and mum Alex has successfully married into life in the ‘Cheshire Set’ – the English ‘Beverley Hills’.Raif’s present to the happy couple will be a video of their wedding. His film is our film – the final edited version with music, live action, interviews - the works. Amidst the chaos of planning their big day and fending off unwanted help the couple begins to wonder ‘whose wedding is it anyway?’
2.4 out of 5 based on 11 reviews
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Omniscore:
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| Certificate |
15 |
| Genre |
Comedy, Romance |
| Director |
Nigel Cole |
| Cast |
Lucy Punch, Robert Webb, Rufus Hound, Miriam Margolyes, Harriet Walter |
| Studio |
Entertainment UK |
| Release Date |
August 2012 |
| Running Time |
94 mins |
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Raif, a shambolic oaf with a unique sense of humour, is asked to be his brother Tim’s best man when he marries Saskia. To Raif’s surprise, he finds his once-bohemian brother is marrying into Cheshire’s most socially aspirant family. Saskia’s grandmother, Patricia would give Hyacinth Bucket a run for her money and mum Alex has successfully married into life in the ‘Cheshire Set’ – the English ‘Beverley Hills’.Raif’s present to the happy couple will be a video of their wedding. His film is our film – the final edited version with music, live action, interviews - the works. Amidst the chaos of planning their big day and fending off unwanted help the couple begins to wonder ‘whose wedding is it anyway?’
Reviews
Empire Magazine
Angie Errigo
“ After a hilarious first half it flags a bit, rescued by wedding day disaster and one of the best wedding speeches ever.”
13/08/2012
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The Guardian
Peter Bradshaw
“We get one or two outrageous sight gags and massive "getting progressively drunk" montages, and some neatly managed comedy on the laugh-with/laugh-at borderline.”
16/08/2012
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Screen
Mark Adams
“The shambolic videoing leads to amusing coverage of such things as the crazy dance rehearsal; an embarrassing tour round a stately home chosen as the wedding party venue; a drunken wine-tasting session and (best of all) the hilarious stag-night that sees Tim spend much of the evening wallowing around in a giant inflatable penis. Also terrific is a cameo performance from Michelle (Green Wing) Gomez as a delightfully barking-mad wedding planner.”
14/08/2012
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The Daily Telegraph
Tim Robey
“Gets by more on goodwill than inspiration, but it’s lightly amusing and well played. ”
16/08/2012
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The Observer
Philip French
“A compendium of every terrible wedding experience and joke you ever heard, it's crude, broad and moderately funny.”
19/08/2012
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The Independent on Sunday
Nicholas Barber
“A genuine wedding video would probably be funnier.”
19/08/2012
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The Sunday Times
Edward Porter
“This video-diary style isn’t matched, however, by much verité realism in the performances, which are exuberant but sitcommy, or in the plot, which — as Hound’s character reveals his love for the bride — clomps its way along a standard romcom route. ”
19/08/2012
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Time Out
Trevor Johnston
“Coming across like Simon Pegg during a bout of testosterone replacement therapy, Hound plays it far too full of himself. The assumption that we’re right behind him is way off the mark too. Yet despite everything else, director Nigel Cole and the rest of his cast manage to create an improv-friendly jeu d’esprit with intermittent engaging larkiness in the margins”
15/08/2012
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Total Film
Matthew Leyland
“When it’s not being shrill, obvious or awkwardly wistful, Nigel Calendar Girls Cole’s comedy is quite funny.”
06/08/2012
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The Independent
Anthony Quinn
“Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to witness the joining of two genres in one, the middlebrow wedding comedy and the DIY vérité flick. Too bad for anyone who knows of lawful impediment.”
17/08/2012
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The Evening Standard
Derek Malcolm
“Hound’s part is so silly that you can’t believe in his character and the jokes about wedding disasters make one yearn for Hugh Grant and Four Weddings and a Funeral.”
17/08/2012
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