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Destination Wedding (2018)
Dry, emotionless delivery, predictable plot
I'm all about quirky, indie-feel movies and smart dialogue and that's what i was expecting in this movie. However like others said, it totally didn't deliver. Keanu and Wynona delivered (pretty much recited) their lines in such a dry, boring manner that my husband and I considered turning it off after a half hour. Constant, stupid and disjointed bickering made it exhausting to watch. There needed to more down time and strategic silence! Then to top it all off, predictable ending. Just so shallow and unoriginal. Sorry to all who were involved in producing this film.
Gringo Wedding (2006)
Lacked depth!
Being bilingual, and knowing well how it can be with cultural differences, I had high hopes for this movie, however, within the first 10 minutes I realized this was not going to be any Walk in the Clouds. :) I was disgusted by the shallow character of "Matt". For wanting to find the right "upstanding" girl, he sure wasn't willing to be an "upstanding" moral guy with very superficial taste. So he didn't have me on his side from the moment he hooked up with a girl on their first date. :( And it it put me over the top the whole scene when he gets to Columbia at the Agencia del Amor and there's a statement made "I feel like a kid in a candy store." was so disgusting I wanted to hurl. How about giving some dignity to women instead of lusting after them?
On the plus side, the high rate of infidelity and the religious, cultural and linguistic prejudices are quite accurate I felt. However, I personally find it difficult to believe that two people can fall in love without being able to converse properly. I also feel that in a situation like that of Rebecca's (coming to the US to live without knowing him for very long) that the least of her worries would be that she would have to do everything herself! How about living in a dump of a house to a lazy jerk who abuses you or makes you his slave in whatever sense? Now that would have my sympathy! Not to mention that I would say the vast majority of women in other countries do cook and clean etc for themselves and cannot afford a maid!!! Super unrealistic. Also, I didn't appreciate the slap-stick way the other workers at Agencia del Amor poked fun, and almost humiliated the more indigenous worker. Very saddened to see that, although I know the Telenovelas or other comedies in Spanish indeed do do that, it doesn't need to be passed on!! Needless to say I was disappointed and can't recommend unfortunately.