Mother of the Bride (2024)

Mother-of-the-Bride-(2024)
Mother of the Bride (2024)

Recently, the style has turned out to focus on expensive destination wedding romantic comedies. Take for instance George Clooney and Julia Roberts’s Ticket to Paradise, as well as Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamele’s Shotgun Wedding. Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell got international recognition just two years ago through anyone but you and became successful in earning out of it. It was just a question of time when the less aggressive version should make its way to net streams. Allow me to introduce some of the new films “Mother of the Bride” with Brooke Shields, Miranda Cosgrove, and Benjamin Bratt. It draws from other great movies, remembers them, and then throws in forever unforgotten characters and a movie is born that should never have been made.

Brad Krevoy and Steve Stabler of the Motion Picture Corporation of America and Netflix are some of the people I admire most of the time. The romantic comedy movies Knight Before Christmas and A Castle for Christmas (which also featured Shields) are, I must admit, on my TV quite often these days. Now, there are the two other movies Falling for Christmas and Irish Wish that recently got uploaded to this site that I had also spoken of at length and in rather gushing terms. Mark Waters is not bad on this one because he has also been involved in directing a number of blockbusters such as the first Mean Girls, Freaky Friday, and Just Like Heaven among others. Even his failures like Head over Heels and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past can be considered in the list of my guilty pleasures.

What were the faults here? Writers of the movie haven’t been able to write anything interesting after the Netflix “The Princess Switch” Trilogy, and only Robin Bernheim was left for the writing with the actors of the film not doing anything interesting.  

Shields plays the role of Lana genetic expert who is known around the world but does have some painful romantic experiences alongside a whole lot of understanding. She has sharpened up quite an awkward perfectly more than a little neurotic screwball comedy character persona during her screaming ad adaptation of the sitcom ‘Suddenly Susan.’

At this moment, it does not go unnoticed to Lana that her daughter Emma (an excruciatingly dull Miranda Cosgrove) is getting married to RJ (Sean Teale) who is, in fact, the son of Will Benjamin Bratt who has as much charm as a ‘frosty hulk’ ever since he crossed 30, and while we are at it, Rachael Harris is cast as the Sister of Lana, who is just a ‘slutty baby lovin woman’ and at one portion, the Cynthia styled character shows off a ‘Hemsworth hunkie’ muscular Chad Michael Murray Michael McDonald and Wilson Cruz are yet another married couple of imported gay men whose role in the film is purely comic and to move the storyline forward. 

In essence, Emma is a lifestyle influencer who sealed off a deal worth several hundred Gs with a company that essentially buys off her wedding in order to sell their promotion. Their Resort in Phuket Thailand

The film fails to mention the underlying economics behind how viewers are able to effortlessly scroll through photoshoots or “looks” designed dresses during the film today. It could have critiqued the rampant commercialization of our lives with respect to even the most cherished and embarrassing moments that lasted, but instead, it spins into the work/life equilibrium narrative. This theme is naturally so simplistic that the lessons imparted in ‘27 Dresses’ become fairly universal. One of the few redeeming traits in the film is how Tasneem Roc plays an obsessive and distressed brand manager portraying herself in an unrestrained style, though these moments are infrequent which diminishes the overall quality of the film.

As I write this essay, I have exerted all my self-control not to mention the groom even once and that is a huge task for me. X is the sole focus of this film. She is the sort of Instagram socialist who when out with her boyfriend is only seen while he snaps pictures of her. The only distinction is that all her pictures are without her boyfriends. A brief reference is made at the start to how the man being introduced was in what profession and how he was able to mingle with Emma and finally, they got married. In fact this seems to be so minor in importance that when they come around to the wedding people should forget what the bride’s name was and what was the ceremony all about. What is significant about them? Why do they look as if they found each other and are working at that place in London when it is so easy for her father to buy a Tribeca apartment worth millions? A picture also should address these concerns which go beyond mere surface stereotypes.

Or maybe this certain film is the type of film those situated in this subgenre despise as it seems like Shawshank and other movies related to romantic ones that I loved and still hate, seem to be delusional in disregarding the possibility of throwing a destination wedding, especially since it is really expensive to start with. 

It’s sad to see someone with such talent as Shields gravitating to that sort of trash. In the end, Mother of the Bride is the bottom of the barrel for almost everyone involved.

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