Simply A Masterpiece

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Paul and Karen are to be married. Paul drinks too much at the bachelor party, and wakes up with someone not his fiancée. He jumps to conclusions. Their timing is off, and it is a while before she gets to tell him that they did not have sex. In the mean time, he keeps encountering her because she's always changing jobs, and it's in the screenplay.Paul has various misadventures with his prospective in-laws, and spins lies to keep the incident with Becky quiet.Then he finds out Becky is Karen's cousin.Fifty seven minutes in, the useless actor Lochlyn Munro is beating the crap out of Paul, then intimidating him, then threatening him. Throwing Paul to the ground when he has two arm loads of groceries was bad enough; then he jams a french fry up Paul's nose. Why? Munro had his girlfriend Becky followed, and Paul kept showing up. This movie is an irredeemable piece of bovine scatology. The shark was jumped.Earlier on, Munro was shown beating up suspects in a police precinct. Munro seems to be typecast to play testosterone challenged throwbacks who think that they are entitled to break the law as well as other people's faces. He's a failed hockey player, so no surprise there. Later on, he breaks in to Paul's apartment, makes a sandwich, and eats it while roughing up Paul. Breaking and entering, theft, what else? More intimidation, more physical abuse, more verbal abuse. Fortunately, by this time, Paul had already started taping the interactions for the other cops. Ray gets hauled away in cuffs.The scene where Paul and Becky are trapped temporarily in the shower because Ray's dog keeps baring its teeth at them--was mercifully short. I could have lived without the 2003-style marijuana humor.Despite all sorts of gaffes, the wedding goes on. When asked for objections, no one says anything. Then Paul speaks up. Then Pete, who was attracted to Karen (as pointed out so many times in the film) sings to her. Pete and Karen run off together. Paul gets the bouquet. Eventually he runs after Becky. She's in a car, he's on foot. What an ending.Scores----Cinematography: 8/10 OK.Sound: 8/10 OK.Acting: 2/10 The actors hit their marks and spoke their lines, but oh, goodness, why did I have to listen to them? Why would Karen still want to marry Paul after being around any of his friends? Why would the police department keep a psycho like Ray on the force when everyday he is just a lawsuit waiting to happen? I usually like Julia Stiles, but the movie is mostly about Jason Lee's character. Yep, that Jason Lee, the one who went on to give us the memorable (and terrible) My Name Is Earl and Alvin and the Chipmunks.Screenplay: 2/10 Neither clever, nor witty, nor funny, nor genuine, nor believable. It's easy to see why the IMDb and RT ratings were so low.

The tale of your average joe having to endure the worst week of his life leading up to his wedding. Sleeping with someone on his stag do, Crabs, Cousins, Moonlighting cooks using dope as a spice, A stalker jealous cop, a brother who fancies the bride to be...Jason lee is superb as he crashes from one disaster to the next. I really enjoyed this movie and I might add as much as some IMDb have slagged off Sophia Myles I thought she was quite good. The complete opposite to the girl jason lee's character is going to marry might be one of those I know whats coming movies but it does enough with the humour and events to differ from the others enough. After a pants day at work with a curry and a bottle of wine it was bang on :)

Maybe this is every man's dream? To have a one night drunken fling with your fiancé's cousin? Or so you think. Turns out, it becomes a headache to keep it concealed for long.Enter panties left at the scene of the crime and everything just snowballs. From enraged police officers to wearing a wire for the FBI to bust such an officer, the movie takes one problem and turns it into multiple ones for the main character.Like many 90s films of this genre, however, this one also has a happy ending. Sort of. But this one is unique that it has two love triangles in one. But I guess I am happy everybody else was happy.Overall, the laughs were fairly good. So if you have a little time to kill, this will do the trick. "C+"

This was one of the most boring movies I've ever seen… I don't really know why… Just your run-of-the-mill stories about guy who is about to get married, and starts to fancy someone else instead. Story has been told a thousand times. Nothing new or innovative about it at all.I don't really know what was wrong with this film. Most of the time when these kinds of actors/actresses get together to make a film that have already been made a million times before, it's really entertaining. There are usually little clever thing in them that aren't really in any other. For some reason, this one just doesn't hold your attention. You can pick out some funny parts, or clever ideas in it, but for some reason they're just not funny, nor clever in any way… I wish I new how to explain it, but I don't… Just don't waste your time on this one