The Wedding Planner
The Wedding Planner
PG-13 | 26 January 2001 (USA)
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San Francisco's premiere wedding planner, Mary Fiore is rescued from an accident by the man of her dreams, pediatrician Steve Edison, only to find he is the fiancé of her latest client. As Mary continues making their wedding arrangements, she and Steve are put into a string of uncomfortable situations that force them to face their mutual attraction.

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heatherhilgers

I'll level with you - I like this movie. The one thing I can't get behind that has haunted me for the past 17 years is the scenes where they waste M&Ms. As a spoiler, Matty McConaughey has an initial scene where he's throwing out all M&Ms that are not brown; reason being, he thinks they have more food dye. Later on, Jenny from the Block does the same. This is wasteful and really took me out of the cinema experience. Why would you buy a bag of candy and refuse to eat 5/6 of it? Almost every processed food has food coloring in it, is this really a way to live your life? In sum, this is a top notch chick flick with a significant plot hole.

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Amélia Maëva Pinot

Wow. I didn't expect to dislike a movie that much. I'm rather difficult in this type of movies but I forget any of my standards and try not to think of lots of things. But even trying to forget my 'standards', the scenes sometimes seemed too long (for example when someone is just waiting for the camera to stop, or looking in the horizon, without, of course, any music), the acting was OVERALL good BUT I really cringed at times, too many times for me to be happy about it. I didn't like the music, but this is just my taste in music that doesn't match. The plot-line was senseless. Sure, you don't look for extremely believable movies in that genre, but I still think this one is something else in that field. I'm not one to badly want a movie to end (Which actually only happened in the third installment of Hunger Games) but I was looking forward to the end of this one. All in all, I hope I'll forget that movie.

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canuckteach

Hollywood really struggles producing these romantic comedies - they seem to overflow with predictability, and, too often, mean-spiritedness. Bollywood does these things better, since they have invented several harmless ways to get the guy and girl finally together. Having said that, J-Lo and McConaughey have a little bit of chemistry together, and the supporting characters have some charm. My only complaint was the pacing - it was draggy in places - I don't mind being drowned in syrup - I just mind being drowned s-l-o-w-l-y in syrup. You can't beat the carefully-structured quick-paced Astaire-Rogers comedies of the 30's. Still 7/10 for a decent entry in the rom-com genre.

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Jackson Booth-Millard

I knew the lead actress, and I knew it was spoofed in Date Movie (with the big ass joke being a highlight), so I thought I'd give it a go, from director Adam Shankman (Cheaper by the Dozen 2). Basically Mary Fiore (Razzie nominated Jennifer Lopez) is a hard working and well organised wedding planner, who can make any wedding a spectacular event, oh, and she enjoys Scrabble. One day, she is rescued from a near accident by doctor Steve Edison (Matthew McConaughey), and it is obvious after dancing and a near kiss that she has fallen for him. But there's a problem, he's engaged to one of Mary's biggest clients, Fran Donolly (I Know What You Did Last Summer's Bridgette Wilson), and even worse, Steve's hired her to plan the wedding. Not only is Mary finding this hard to do, but Steve might be having doubts that he wants to marry Fran at all, oh, and Mary might have accepted a proposal from childhood friend Massimo (Justin Chambers). So it comes to the wedding day, and thankfully, Steve tells Fran his doubts, and she feels the same too, and Mary pulls out of her wedding, and it ends happily ever after with them dancing. Also starring Judy Greer as Penny, Alex Rocco as Salvatore, Joanna Gleason as Mrs. Donolly, Charles Kimbrough as Mr. Donolly, Fred Willard as Basil St. Mosely , Kevin Pollak as Dr. John Dojny and Kathy Najimy as Geri. I can see what the critics mean about this being like a Julia Roberts film, it is close to the premise of My Best Friend's Wedding, just giving us the ending we could have had, and making it okay. Lopez is an alright female lead, plenty of chances to view her curves, and McConaughey has his small moments as the male lead, and even though there isn't a lot to laugh at, it is worth a go, at least once. Okay!

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