An absolute waste of money

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Sadie Jones (Mandy Moore) and Ben Murphy (John Krasinski) are getting married. She wants her Reverend Frank (Robin Williams) to preside but the reverend wants them to go through a marriage course.Mandy Moore and John Krasinski make a perfectly vanilla plain cute couple. With a simple story, they have a fighting chance for a simple rom-com. However, Robin Williams is really annoying. He's manipulative, passive aggressive, and yet everybody loves him. The problem is that his schtick isn't cute anymore. As the movie keeps going, it only gets worse and anti-funny. Mandy Moore gets weirdly clueless, and John Krasinski gets more angry. It would probably be better to set up their characters better. In fact, we don't get much of Ben's family.There are other minor problems. DeRay Davis is too weak as his best friend. The role needs somebody more funny. Eric Christian Olsen would be a better fit. Anything to get Robin Williams off the screen would be a good idea.Then there's the ring inscription. If it's going to be a big joke, then we need to see the writing. The whole time I'm waiting to see the note. It's the absolute weakest of movie making.The only fun part of the movie are the outtakes at the end. At least it looks like everybody had fun and laughing while filming this movie. It's great to see the gang of 'The Office' have second jobs. But this movie is more annoying than anything.

This is the type of comedy Robin Williams could probably do in his sleep because the director has just given him full reign to do whatever he wants and its shows.The plot is wafer thin but strangely enjoyable if only for the madness that occurs when Williams is on screen. He is without a doubt the bright spark in a film that tries to be comedic and heartfelt at the same time but misses the mark on both elements badly.It has it's moments but it's never going to be an award winning movie or even a laugh out loud movie because even with Williams milking every comic moment for all its worth the film at best only really raises a smile every half hour of so.If you're a fan of the actors then go out and watch this film but if not I wouldn't rush to see it.

Funny? A poor schlub that is forced to bend to every mindless whim of his high-maintenance spoiled fiancé? Through the whole movie she, with the help of the sadistic Robin Williams, emasculates the poor guy with one unreasonable demand after the next. Not for one second does she listen to his opinions or consider his needs. In the end, in the last two minutes, all is well and they live happily ever after when he manages to successfully jump through a million hoops and chase her all the way to Jamaica. This movie perfectly illustrates the exploitative nature of "romance" - keep buying the bitch everything she wants, bow and scrape - and in the end you may be granted a few years of listless sex before the inevitable divorce. There is a biological truth to males having to bring food to the female, to prove they are good providers - but this movie perfectly illustrates the infantilazation of the American female - the opposite of liberation, but a return to continued dependency and manipulation.

How does one go from a movie like "A Walk to Remember" to garbage like "License to Wed?" I guess we would need to ask Mandy Moore's agent. Moore, who was so appealing in "Walk" as a dying student, here plays a ditzy woman who is about to get married -- until she plays into the hands of a manipulative minister (Robin Williams, giving one of his very worst performances) who does everything he can to break up the happy couple. Moore is so annoying after awhile that one hopes she will just go away for good. John Krasinski as her hapless fiancé appears to be channeling several better-known light leading men who have appeared in far superior romantic comedies. The film is a shipwreck, both in the acting and the script, which seems nonexistent at times. There is an attempt at one point to do a riff on "Meet the Parents," but it falls flat for want of decent dialog. Skip this one, or risk losing your sanity.