Soon enough, he’s employing professional best man Jimmy Callahan (Hart) and a rag-tag team of groomsmen, each of whom is an ostensibly yuk-worthy “type”: the Fat Guy (played by Jorge Garcia of Lost fame), the Asian ( Aaron Takahashi), the Redneck, the Beefcake (with a stutter - even funnier!), etc., etc.Īs Doug and his homies-for-hire get acquainted, we’re treated to a variety of gags, including a boy getting hit in the gut with a baseball and a man breaking his own arm for show, as well as jokes about rape, child molestation and testicular deformities. Alas, Doug is soft-spoken and overweight, which, in testosterone-drunk comedies like this one, means that he has no friends. Read more Kevin Hart on Bill Cosby, Avoiding Controversy and How Sony Apologized for “Whore” Commentĭirected by Jeremy Garelick from a screenplay he wrote with Jay Lavender (the two formerly penned Jennifer Aniston– Vince Vaughn rom com The Break-Up), The Wedding Ringer opens with Doug ( Josh Gad) nervously cold calling potential best men in preparation for his upcoming nuptials to Gretchen ( The Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting).
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holiday weekend, coupled with the presence of stand-up star Kevin Hart (most recently seen as Chris Rock’s agent in Top Five), could give the movie a big boost at the box office.
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Still, a welcoming release slot over the Martin Luther King Jr. An odd-couple bromance spiked with gross-out humor of a mainly unimaginative sort, The Wedding Ringer largely fails to accomplish its most basic mission: making us laugh.
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But a certain derivative, deja-vu quality isn’t the only sin this lazy, numbingly routine, very occasionally amusing comedy commits.