Wonderful character development!

recommended

Absolutely brilliant

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

This is a decent movie presented in a unique way and it has some good performances particularly by the stars. It does get a little bit boring sometimes but is worth watching.

Great movie. touching in it's attempt to understand it's heroes, slowly but fascinatingly evolving, while we come to get to know them closely and in depth. big drama but at the same time very human. kind of a free spirit movie. very good.

Seeing the reviews for this movie I was hoping to see a movie of European style where you can feel the depth through the story which some will consider as -nothing happens through the whole film.And-as I have expected-it was just that.Front story pictures Kym as younger, rebel/addict sister who makes a great contrast next to elder sister Rachel miss "doing everything right in life". Their relationship is portraying a question of why does the little messed up sister has all the love and attention of their father, and can this struggle between sisters finally be settled in a few days around a big event such as Rachel's wedding.I can easily say that performances were on a same level by Anne Hathaway as for Rosemarie DeWitt. It really hits the point between younger-older sister relationship. The two characters are very different but despite that, sisterhood connection is still strong and in the end that is all that matters and can lead you through all the past painful memories.Secondary, story about divorced parents with new partners and next to it, how the two families meet for the first time preparing for a big event is carrying the red line next to the sisterhood story just perfect through the movie. And of course we cant get pass the sisters father outstanding performance by Bill Irwin.altogether; 8/10

10. Director Demme shot this as if for TV, with an emphasis on close-ups that reveal way more than necessary of Bill Irwin's thinning hair and Anne Hathaway's gums. Close-ups are used as exclamation points on the big screen, which makes this movie all exclamation points. 9. Adding injury to insult, Demme also unwisely used a hand-held camera, which left me vaguely sea-sick, and failed to create what he was apparently aiming for-- a documentary feel. Documentaries have to be about reality; nothing in this movie feels real or honest.8. No subtlety. If there's a core problem, that's it. Everything is spelled out and heavy-handed. Hathaway has bobbed hair that looks like it was chewed off (read: dysfunction). She inexpertly smokes cigarettes (Hollywood's tired way of signaling a troubled or bad character)-- cigarettes which never burn down. No butts for Ms. Hathaway, only long slim white cigarettes as props for her. She is also the only smoker in a film crowded with unnecessary characters. Her character, "Kym," is the center of the movie, and she may be the most relentlessly self-indulgent, self-pitying character since Mildred Pierce's daughter, Veda. Not a character to build a movie on.7. Every single scene, without exception, is too long. The wedding toasts seem endless, as do the AA meetings. Worst: more than 5 minutes devoted to loading a dishwasher-- a contest between groom and future father-in-law. Five minutes. Seriously. I timed it. 6. No one is likable. Rachel comes closest (Rosemary Dewitt), but even she is alternately strident and sentimental-- those are the movie's two notes, and it reels between them without warning. Rachel also suffers for having zero chemistry with her groom, played by Tunde Adebimpe, who is given no distinct character to limn.5. Adebimpe is only one of many black characters who are good-natured, smiling ciphers (see Martin Yu's perceptive review about the cast). The cast is preposterously post-racial, yet presents African- Americans with the same benign attitude that we used to get in minstrel shows.4. The dialog is largely inaudible, and the whole movie depends on speeches. Nothing is advanced visually, except in reaction shots. 3. Horrible nonstop folk/world music. There is one scene with credible jazz combo, but it's not worth waiting for. 2. "I'm pregnant." That line is dropped like a bomb into a scene, allowing everybody to emote yet more, and Veda-- I mean "Kym" to launch into yet another strident, self-pitying attack on her family. 1. It's the kitchen-sink school of drama. Besides unexpected pregnancy, the movie drags in drug addiction, alcoholism, sibling hatred, divorce, anorexia, sexual molestation, and two car accidents, one of which kills a child. The only thing missing is racism, and that would actually have been a breath of honesty in this multi-kulti mess.