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License to wed
Sniveling toady of a film
By
CHRIS BRAIOTTA
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July 3, 2007
LICENSE TO WED
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LICENSE TO WED: Like
Arrested Development
remade by the people behind
Full House
.
From its anonymous title down to every last moment of its pleading humor and shoehorned uplift,
License To Wed
is soaked in sloth and cowardice. Ben (
The Office
’s John Krasinski, apparently trying to make Steve Carell feel better about
Evan Almighty
) is sentenced to a gulag of wackiness when he proposes to Sadie (Mandy Moore, who’s pleasant enough but might not pass a Turing test). See, Sadie’s determined to get married at her childhood parish — which means surviving the Stasi-worthy intrusions of Reverend Frank (Robin Williams, the only man in history to be more annoying when he’s
not
on coke). This sniveling toady of a film is
desperate
to appeal to both halves of the heterosexual couples it targets for an audience. So it muddies its syrupy distillate of every romantic comedy ever made with absurd gags poorly retrofitted from far funnier milieux. It’s as if
A
rrested Development
had been remade by the people behind
FullHouse
.
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