Shotgun Wedding’ movie review: Jennifer Lopez, Josh Duhamel stuck in a dreadful dud
Shotgun Wedding
Director: Jason Moore
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Josh Duhamel, Jennifer
Coolidge, Sônia Braga, Cheech Marin, D’Arcy Carden, Lenny Kravitz
Story line: A destination wedding goes
south when pirates step in
Run time: 100 minutes
Darcy (Lopez) and Tom (Josh Duhamel) are getting married in a beautiful island in the Philippines. As with all marriages, there is stuff to navigate despite the best efforts of the manager, Marg (Selena Tan from Crazy Rich Asians). Darcy doesn't want her super-rich father Robert (Cheech Marin) to pay for her and Tom wants to give Darcy the perfect marriage, while proving to her in-laws that he's the right man for their baby girl.
Darcy's sister Jamie (Callie Hernandez) is a bit of a wild child and doesn't arrive in time to do Darcy's hair because she's getting into an inappropriate place with best man Ricky (Desmin Borges). With Jamie not around to stop the excesses of his future mother-in-law, Carol (Jennifer Coolidge), Darcy feels like "Kondo" is in over his head.
Darcy's parents have separated and his mother Renata (Sonia Braga) dismisses Tom as a gromzilla (he wants everything to be the same, including the pineapple centers) while Robert's girlfriend Harriet (D'Arcy Cardon) complains about laughing at him. Doing
To make matters worse, Darcy's ex-boyfriend, Sean (Lenny Kravitz), makes a splashy helicopter drop at the wedding (even though he didn't RSVP). He hijacks Tom's speech with sensitive and humorous memories of his time with Darcy in the Peace Corps in Bali, and charms all the wedding guests, including Tom's quiet, gentle father Larry (Steve Coulter).
Then the guests wait for the bride to walk down the aisle, while the happy couple are matching shouting "you said so much", come the pirates. A shotgun wedding in a wedding is supposed to be die hard... Detective John McClane won't be saying it yippie-kee-ye anytime soon.
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The jokes are flatter than yesterday's Uthappam and the mind-blowing ones are not in very good taste. There's the rom-com, action movie, action-comedy or Tarantino-style segmentation with gouts of blood. Sad to confirm that she doesn't fall into any of those categories. Shotgun Wedding lives in its own special cell of hell, where horror movies go to die.
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