Such a frustrating disappointment

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I gues I like to torture myself with bad movies these days. The opening with the best man's speech should be the biggest clue for what was awaiting me, but I still had hope (whyyyyyyy?). I really like stupid humor, dark humor, cheap sex jokes and I can tolerate a lot in movies. But this is just awkward humor without the humor in it. So it is just awkward over the top situations. If you're doing awkward humor, you should be realistic and subtle (or over the top with a good sense of how to do it, see "The Office"). The movie is, same as the best man, trying too hard to be likeable and funny. And fails miserably. Also, the depiction of "happy" and "unhappy" married couples seems to come from a 15 year old. Not emptying the trash can and the toilet seat problem seem like cheap cliches from a golden book of rom-com cliches. And the couple, that loves each other through hate shoud represent what? Hopelessness for all marriages? Real life? Hope for all disfunctional couples? Why do I even bother to know?! This movie is poorly written with ridiculous scenes (in a bad way), no message, nothing worth remembering about it (except as a bad examble) and I recommend it to people who hate rom-coms to have one more reason to hate them even more.

It's British humour at it's best, perfect in every way but one - hence the 8 rather than 10. All the good stuff first - toe curling awkwardness, England - I think I was married in that church, class divides - snobbish in-laws, a Young One, in-laws, Olivia Colman as a marriage counsellor I think I met once, the realness of married life presented with self-depreciating humour - I love the play off between the sister and her husband, watch for it... The bad - Simon Baker, an Australian with an American accent - why? I watch this movie when I need to laugh, it works, you should too.

After having watched the trailer, I immediately knew this film would be worth procrastinating with and I was not wrong. Such comedy! The film centres in on the lives of a newly-wed, quite unlikely, couple. In their words, they only happen to be in 'love with the idea of being in love'. Their friends do not believe their shambles of a marriage will survive a year, it is quite obvious why that is. And what happens when the couple begin to see a 'better' option? The prospect of a life free of such misery? The film had me on my toes up until the very last minute, it didn't seem plausible one way or the other. But that's what love is: uncertain and unpredictable, of that I'm sure.So, of course, because they are a well-off, contemporary couple dealing with such issues, they consult a marriage counsellor. She invariably added a welcome spin on things-what, with her own disintegrating marriage and all. Why they stuck with her was quite stupid, possibly the only flaw in the film. It's like allowing a doctor with a notorious track record of killing his patients, inject you. Okay, maybe not quite as serious but you get my drift. The cast was brilliantly engaging, and Simon Baker ('prospective' love interest) was charming as always..After having watched The Mentalist religiously, I am quite a fan of his work. An entertaining watch, and a lucky find. Films which have you both, cooing and laughing hysterically are quite rare. In my final attempt to convince you to watch this, I'll mention that the leading couple have English accents, as do many of the other characters. Did that work, at all?

The Stephen Merchant parts are funny but the rest are atrocious. It is a fourth rate copy of 4 Weddings the acting is awful with no comic timing. The characters are paper think uncharming smug rich kids. Every cliché is overused together with hackneyed awkward sentences and engineered Anglo-American comrardary and unsubtle romantic sound tracking. The jokes are old and recycled from old episodes if Robin's Nest. Who watches these banal chick flicks? This is a totally forgettable date movie. As always with Romcoms they try to be romantic and funny and fail at both. Olivia Coleman was completely wasted in this using lines recycled from Agony and It takes a Worried Man. No originality just a complete fail. The audience must have been suckered inti the cinema by the Stephen Merchant bits that you see in the trailer.