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Moviegoers should annul the likable but incredibly dumb "The Wedding Ringer"
Well at least the last line is hilarious. As for the rest of the mostly incoherent and dirty comedy "The Wedding Ringer," it's largely forgettable. It's one of those obvious rentals in which you see most of the funny stuff - all 2 minutes of it - in the trailers. Jimmy (Kevin Hart) provides best man services for socially challenged guys, who - for whatever reason - have no one close enough to agree to stand by them on the day of their wedding. Doug (Josh Gad) a groom-to-be, has found himself in just such a situation and seeks out Jimmy's services to carry out a charade designed to make Doug look his best, but threatens to destroy everything if it fails. Directed and co-written by Jeremy Garelick and produced by Will Packer, whose been a part of most of Hart's comedies of late, "The Wedding Ringer" is an unfunny, dirty attempt at yet another odd-ball pairing - this time the awkward Jewish guy and the loudmouth African-American guy - and while the leads are charming - about 90% of it falls flat under silly, contrived situations and cardboard caricatures that make absolutely no sense. It also wastes a bevy of decent, talented actors, including Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Ken Howard, Mimi Rogers, the lovely Olivia Thirlby and the wisecracking character actress Jenifer Lewis, who's good for a minute or two as the voice of reason (and as for you Cloris Leachman, you should know better than to take a paycheck like this). Though the uber-annoying Hart isn't all to blame here, it's mostly the awful script, which fills it many unnecessary and unfunny stretches of filler, including many awkward party scenes and that painfully bad bachelor party scene, which Gad (who will always be Olaf to me from "Frozen"), should be embarrassed by, until it reaches the predictable, stale ending. Jorge Garcia, Hurley from "Lost," is one of the paid groomsmen here, and he's given little to except utter the film's final and funniest line, which "Lost" enthusiasts will get a kick out of. People spend loads of money on weddings, a fleeting, if not memorable affair for everyone involved. "The Wedding Ringer," while filled with a couple of good moments, is not a memorable affair, but a crowd-pleasing mess of a comedy that should make loads of money for its producers. Don't waste your money on it.
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