Robert Smigel directs Adam Sandler, Chris Rock and Steve Buscemi in the domestic comedy about a father of the bride trying to give his daughter a dream wedding on a budget while housing the extended families.

Every Adam Sandler comedy opens to terrible reviews. Yet some are perfectly adequate and some are truly great. So who you gonna believe? This is an appealing attempt to make an overly busy, sitcommy ensemble around wedding planning stress. It hits the same sweet notes as Father of the Bride or a National Lampoon’s Vacation movie. The laughs in the main come from thick and fast character beats, only losing focus when escalating to a grander scale than the “truth” allows. A sequence involving bat sabotage is a farce too far but even that lengthy misstep leads to a neat resolution. As we’ve seen before, Rock and Sandler have great chemistry and their scenes together chime with a magic that very few other comedic pairings have recently. On the whole this works. You’ll chuckle out loud consistently for 2 hours. And could easily watch it with any generation of your family. Is that the worse thing in the world?

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