It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Should you be looking for something you can watch while needing a distraction from boring paperwork or mundane housework, that is light, fun, fast moving and so not needing to be taken seriously 'The Wedding Date' is perfect! It has the potential to rescue any viewer from cynicism and pessimism or just a bad mood. There is lovely chemistry between the leads and though the story is completely unbelievable the leads (both couples) are lovely together. This 'feel good' movie is a nice reminder that life does not need to be always serious, and while some people are simply not redeemable that is, they are not good boyfriends or partners, and can waste our time and our life, there are always other fish in the sea.

My journey into Rom-Com Hades is a short one so far, but I've seen enough of the genre to determine this movie the worst. To begin with, the movie's premise and nauseating characters are bad enough for their insulting lack of charm or logic. Dimwit Debra Messing hires male gigolo Dermot Mulroney for $6000 to accompany her to a family wedding, but it gets worse. Do male gigolos even exist, excluding jail-bait for homosexuals in sexual tourist spots in Tangiers or Thailand? Whatever. Every repellent bridesmaid, jilted ex, bumbling parent, in-law, etc. embody bug-eyed cartoons with awful clothes and mannered acting choices. Messing's hair is the putrid color of Orange Crush. Who designed this flick, anyway? In fact, the whole movie shares one color scheme, which seems to be Flight Attendant Uniform, and this best epitomizes how the movie's smallest details make its biggest flaws even worse. Add the rip-off locale of England (to remind audiences that, hey, "Four Weddings & a Funeral" took place there!), and it's not enough to distract one from all the other cliché's on screen. Lots of Michael Buble on the soundtrack and the obligatory Motown hits to keep the honkies in the Cineplex entertained—yet without unsettling them with music that sounds too much like actual negroes—and I'm sure the studio thought they had a hit soundtrack as well. They even afforded to buy a Maroon 5 ballad to stick into the movie's one sex scene! Lines of dialogue include, "I'd rather fight with you than make love with anyone else", and Mulroney looks so exceedingly uncomfortable in this swill you can almost forgive him. Almost. But not once his character falls in love with Messing's charm-less, spas of a 9 year old girl masquerading as a 20-something female (and the audience's object of sympathy). This another failure on the script's part, as I don't know how any woman could identify with Messing's creepy brat. The final insult the movie delivers: it was written, directed and produced by women. If this doesn't set back the dignity of both sexes a century or more, I don't know what could. Horrific.

I really can't believe the low rating on this movie. I understand that it's not movie gold or that it's predictable in mostly all parts of the movie but I loved the spunk and humor displayed as well as the deeper more serious parts of the movie. I can watch this movie any time it comes on TV without getting bored with it. You can't rate this as an Oscar movie or to some standard as Titanic or Atonement....both AMAZING love stories, however, this love story is just as interesting as previously stated. I don't always want to CRY to see a romantic movie. Laughter can be there too. So for romantic comedy, this movie is great and is sweet to watch with friends or relatives. I watch it with my mother and sisters all the time.Grab some popcorn and enjoy, Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney are great together and he's not bad to look at either. ;)

In my opinion, the movie could have been so much more. I wonder if the jacket was written by someone who watched the movie before the editor finished slicing and dicing. Many of the deleted scenes should have been left in. Other scenes would have made more sense (Amy asking Nick if he told her for instance) and the humor the jacket spoke of, would have been much more apparent. At several points we were left wondering where a scene was going only to have it cut away without resolution. Other times, it was as if some crucial lead-in had been left out.The story might be a bit cliché but the writing was passable and the acting and characters were believable enough. The settings, cinematography lighting etc, were great and I like the actors. However, none of this was enough to elevate this movie out of mediocrity.I would have a DVD for sale but then I'd be guilty of criminal behavior, if not as bad as the one those responsible for the way this film turned out perpetrated. The editing crew appear to be guilty of felony film vandalism.