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32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperChicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperThere’s not a bad performance in this movie. De Niro, Keaton and Sarandon are particularly good, what a surprise. But it feels as if all the guests at “The Big Wedding” are wearing ID tags telling us their one Plot Point.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe movie's own brand of charm has its subset of smarm.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMost of this huge-cast extravaganza is a botched farce. When that doesn't work, it turns sentimental. The presence of liked and familiar actors helps make it watchable, but there is no disguising that this is a weak, badly constructed comedy. At least it's short.
- 50Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaNo one is bad in The Big Wedding, but no one is remotely believable, either.
- 40VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeThe film isn’t so much funny as it is merely amusing — a laundry list of inappropriate and potentially embarrassing moments that strive mightily, but never quite manage to land the laugh.
- 30Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzThere is nothing about the movie that isn’t utterly predictable. You meet a character, and it’s immediately obvious what’s going to happen to him (or her). And then it happens. Maybe it’s meant to make you feel good about your deductive reasoning skills or something. But mostly it just makes you want to see something else.
- 25Boston GlobeTom RussoBoston GlobeTom RussoQuaint and crass get together — or would that be “bump uglies”? — with awkward, thoroughly flat results in The Big Wedding, an ensemble comedy with a tonal cluelessness as surprising as the name cast that signed on for it anyway.
- 20New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThe Big Wedding lets them all down with bottom-rung sitcom shtick and an undercurrent of squareness masquerading as absurdity.
- 16The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinIt’s almost impressive how the moronic new ensemble comedy The Big Wedding manages to cram three hours’ worth of nonsensical subplots, extraneous characters, and implausible plot points into 90 minutes of streamlined idiocy.