A mediocre comedy that has just enough laughs, crass humour and an interesting premise to make it worthwhile. Josh Gad is about to marry his fiance but knows he is out of his league and with no friends to speak of he hires Hart, a professional 'best man', to assemble some makeshift groomsmen to impress the wedding guests and his fiance.
The humour comes from the unlikely rag tag characters Hart puts together to be his Groomsmen and Gad constantly having to cover up the fact to only sink deeper into a web of lies that Hart, with his likeable quickfire delivery, has to put right. The pairing of Hart and Gad works for the most part but the script doesn't really deliver and everyone tries too hard to compensate. It soon loses sight of the original premise and becomes a rather hit and miss affair.
This is not Kevin Hart's best but he is the best thing about it and there are better buddy movies and romantic comedies about weddings out there but Hart makes it worthwhile and with a change in tone in the last act the crass silliness and cheap gags make way for genuine sentiment to make us want to care about these characters after all.
The humour comes from the unlikely rag tag characters Hart puts together to be his Groomsmen and Gad constantly having to cover up the fact to only sink deeper into a web of lies that Hart, with his likeable quickfire delivery, has to put right. The pairing of Hart and Gad works for the most part but the script doesn't really deliver and everyone tries too hard to compensate. It soon loses sight of the original premise and becomes a rather hit and miss affair.
This is not Kevin Hart's best but he is the best thing about it and there are better buddy movies and romantic comedies about weddings out there but Hart makes it worthwhile and with a change in tone in the last act the crass silliness and cheap gags make way for genuine sentiment to make us want to care about these characters after all.