6/10
The Wrong Choice !
17 September 2013
Warning: Spoilers
True that traveling in time, fulfilling a high school dream, preferring the geek over the cool, all are usual things in fantasy and sci-fi movies. True that there are similar movies to (The Wedding Wish - 2007) like (Back to Future 2 - 1989), (13 Going on 30 - 2004), and even (Seventeen Again - 2000) which's a TV movie represents the opposite of (The Wedding..) and centers around 2 lovers who come back in time to their high school days. But the thing is (The Wedding..) holds itself pretty well, standing - somehow - alone with its script, and 2 leading actors.

The script is too funny, with witty dialogue. I just hated some obvious abbreviation at the end, and the lack of hotter climax. As for (Katee Sackhoff), she's the queen of this movie. No one could outclass her. She stole every second with her catchy smile, cartoonish reactions, and lovely performance. Her co-star (Sage Brocklebank), who looks like (Kyle Chandler)'s younger brother, is comedic, and charismatic. It's not sad that everyone and everything else weren't as half good, it's so sad!

The other cast members were at variance with things like comedy and charisma. Moreover, I felt that some of the actors, who embodied high school students, were real high school students; let's face it, that judge can't fool anybody as a 34 years old! And while the geek-turned-journalist (Tommy Lioutas)'s haircut was supposedly used to indicate his mature being, it did the complete opposite!

Don't get me starting on the direction. OH GOD! How any direction can get more dead?! There is no sense of artistic anything during the movie. Every single moment is made without the least amount of creativeness. The cuts are robotic and incredibly bore. Many well written scenes were utterly ruined by that lazy, rather invisible direction. I have watched better TV episodes for sure!

(The Wedding Wish) is a nice comedy about the nightmarish life we get after a wrong choice. It had a few fine factors. So sad, and so bad, that the movie's makers didn't learn themselves a lesson, from their own presented moral, and made the "wrong choice" concerning the rest of the factors!

.. And as for the running debate, (The Wedding Wish) is better than (13 going on 30). At least (The Wedding..) has events, thrill, and ending that respects itself and you!
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