WEDDING DAZE 
Starring:
Jason Biggs, Isla Fisher, Joe Pantoliano, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Edward Herrmann,
Joanna Gleason, Chris Diamantopoulos, Margo Martindale, Audra Blaser and Michael
Weston
Writer/Director:
Michael Ian Black
Running Time:
92 mins
"Will you marry me"
When Vanessa (Blaser) died of a heart attack just as he had proposed to her, Anderson (Biggs) knew that he would never find anyone that perfect again. A year later and with his best friend Ted (Weston) stick of him moping, Anderson finally admits he is never going to replace Vanessa and should start living again, so as he exchanges glances with a beautiful waitress but when he jokingly asks her to marry him, Katie (Fisher) says yes.
Getting over losing someone can be a long process but can you be overly impulsive when it comes to moving on?
How many of us have done anything truly impulsive? When was the last time you just did something with really thinking about it and then went with that decision for better or worse? This is premise behind writer/director Michael Ian Black's 'Wedding Daze' and it should have provided a decent platform for comedy but unfortunately if you are looking for big belly laughs, then you have impulsively looked in the wrong place.
After his girlfriend dropped dead of a heart attack just as he proposed to her, Anderson spent a year trying to get over losing the perfect woman. His best friend Ted thinks the best way for him to do this is to start dating again but Anderson takes an even bigger step by asking waitress Katie to marry him. Katie was having her own problems, her perfect boyfriend, in her mother's eyes, had asked her to marry him but she didn't really know if she was ready to make a life with William. So when a nice looking guy just asks her to marry her she says yes. The movie then takes this interesting premise and takes it on, asking if two strangers can get to know each other, get married and most importantly, fall in love. The problem is that it never really pushes the story as far as it could go.
Two strangers trying to make a go of a relationship, when they have no history or even know anything about each other could have had great comedic potential but filmmaker Michael Ian Black doesn't push the premise as far as it could have gone. His lead actors are gifted comedy actors but Jason Biggs and Isla Fisher are basically playing their characters from 'American Pie' and 'The Wedding Crashers'. Anderson is the loveable loser, who is accident-prone and has appalling bad luck. Katie is slightly mad, overly emotional but adorably cute. Sound familiar. It is the rest of the cast that provide most of the laughs however, with Joe Pantoliano and Joanna Gleason rediscovering their lust for each other as Katie parents, the outrageous sexual escapades of Edward Herrmann and Margo Martindale as Anderson's parents and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as the circus obsessed Matador.
'Wedding Daze' is simply a nice romantic comedy that brings nothing new to the genre and won't live in the memory for very long after seeing it. Simplistic but sweet, this is a movie that relies on the presence of Jason Biggs and Isla Fisher but the problem is that it doesn't ask them to do as much as they could to make this is a better movie.
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