Just what I expected

Excellent but underrated film

Admirable film.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Margot at the Wedding is a good movie with a very well written storyline and a talented cast. It's certainly not a feel good movie, it's a very depressing and harsh look at the reality many people have to face, but I think that's what made this film watchable, it was realistic, it was very sincere, it's aim was not to sugarcoat our world, based around the subjects of family, relationships and growing up, it can be very surreal for a sensitive audience. I felt like it tried to focus on too many subjects at once which made it a bit overwhelming at times, it really should have only focused on family and love life, the other issues that were thrown in were unnecessary. I think they should have given Jack Black some more big scenes, he completely tones it down for his usually high energetic comedic roles to play a character that I found to be very relatable at times, he shines in parts in which he has a lot of dialogue and, though Nicole Kidman is of course the star of this film, I think Black deserved more big scenes. Somewhat upsetting and at other times weirdly humorous, Margot at the Wedding is not spectacular, but I definitely think it's worth the watch and would recommend it to anyone looking for a good drama. A wedding reunites the constituent parts of an estranged and dysfunctional family, reopening some old wounds. Best Performance: Nicole Kidman Worst Performance: John Turturro

I loved "The Squid and the Whale". And I loved "Greenberg"."Margot at the Wedding" is simply one of the most atrocious films I have ever seen, and one of the most disappointing products of such a great cast and director.There is not a single likable, redeemable character, nor is there a storyline that pays off. Imagine 90 minutes of watching a group of repugnant, shallow, neurotic people interacting and arguing about a wedding that we never get to see.Did I also mention the craft? The film is so amateurishly shot and cut together that you'll find yourself distracted by the lingering shots of an underexposed, awkwardly composed image. Or you might not understand the jarring shift in tone or pacing from an unmotivated scene change. I simply cannot wrap my head around what they were trying to achieve.And what makes it all even worse is what could have been. Noah Baumbach has proved himself to be a compelling director and storyteller in the past, even with unlikable characters such as Ben Stiller's Greenberg. Nicole Kidman often makes fascinating, adventurous choices in the roles she portrays. What we are left with is a sloppy, nihilistic mess of a film about a miserable family without any intuition of how decent humans should behave, thus robbing the audience of any sort of fulfillment or engagement that one would hope for in watching a film.If the film had ended with the tree falling on their house and killing them all, I might have seen a redeeming quality in the poetic justice of the situation. Instead I'm left with a bitter aftertaste of a meandering, boring, dreadful film about people with whom nobody could relate, and therefor engaging in their conflicts was in no way possible. It isn't easy to sympathize with such miserable souls such as those in this film... what a shame.

Any attempt I make to describe this film isn't going to do it justice, in short: if you like dark and powerful films then watch this, you won't regret it. In long: I was bored so I watched this with 0 hype on cable. I watch 1-2 films per day almost every day but I was completely blown away by how powerful the screenplay is on this film. It features Nicole Kidman, someone who wasn't on my radar of good actresses and Jack Black - a slapstick comedian, what on earth was I suppose to expect here? The reality is that the screenplay for this film could be performed by a twig alongside a slice of apple pie and the twig would win an Oscar. It's an extremely dark depiction of a relatively normal event, a wedding, through the interactions of half a dozen flawed adults and the three children that they drag, kicking and screaming, through childhood.The writers really paint the complexity of everyday people, these aren't people that have extreme mental disorders - these are people you work with that often find themselves thrust together and bound by the most semantic of bonds, family, friends, marriage. Nicole Kidman blew me away as 'Margot', arguably the most flawed of the characters but by no means the protagonist or villain. Jack Black really suppressed his usual over-the-top slapstick to give a subtle performance of a serious character.I was watching avidly until the end which was like a punch in the face. I mean in the middle of a scene it just says 'Fin'. This film should have been twice as long as it was! Maybe I was just so into the film that I didn't want it to end, either way I make it an 85 minute film when I wished it was over 2 hours.

Don't waste your time or money-this one stinks really REALLY BADLY!! This film makes the Royal(flush it down the toilet)Tenenbaums look like a masterpiece!! The only reason I rented this smelly turd was because we live in the very town-East Quogue, where some of it was filmed...so naturally we had to check it out. Boy, what a mistake that was!! Can even remember having Main Street(Montauk Hwy) closed down for a day or two while they filmed-thanks Noah, the inconvenience and intrusion definitely wasn't worth it!! Plus they shot some other scenes nearby, I believe it might have been Red Creek-a really beautiful area-such a waste of some great scenery. I think I even stood behind the food crew on the "express" checkout line one morning at the local supermarket-I swear!! (buying what seemed like a half million dollars worth of food-at least ten cases of bottled water, must have been for Nicole's sustenance). I even saw the van as they loaded it up, I guess Hollywood has to make a big production out of everything. Sorry-I'm beginning to sound like this movie-haha. Anyway...This film pushed our patience, in the sense of "when is this movie going to start getting interesting". My wife and I unfortunately had to wait until nearly the end before the one scene that showcased our tiny town revealed itself. Ouch, what an agonizing wait. Even my wife thought this was painful to watch, and she gravitates towards these kind of flicks. Awful, AWFUL dialogue. Silly, banal bickering one minute, followed by seemingly hollow, half-hearted apologies and reconciliations the next. Over and OVER and OVER again-the whole movie was pretty much that. I'm not sure what Baumbach was thinking when he wrote the screenplay, and then directed this junk. Sure he had some success with "The Squid and the Whale"-which we both liked... But I guess he thinks he can just expand the wackiness-dysfunctional-kooky factor and sprinkle in some dull, laughless humor and voilà, he's got a viewable movie-well WRONG!! This movie tries too hard to be off-center, dysfunctional and wacky. I agree with other posters that while some people find these introspectives of nutjobs' lives amusing, most of us find them dull, boring and almost unlifelike. Main stream folks have their problems, but not like this.Want more? Really dopey dialogue throughout most of this film(did I just say that-well it's worth repeating), bad casting-read Jack Black, that Pais kid was rather pathetic too, horrible editing at times, several shots that just totally did not match up, hey that should never happen in this day and age, and a lousy plot... This film is just a total waste of time and space(on anyone's DVD shelf). Avoid this stinker at any cost!! Even a 99-cent rental!!!