My Best Friend's Wedding Critic Reviews
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Based upon 12 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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Obtuse, prettily decorative comedy. Characters burst gaily into song when, as often happens, they don't have anything better to do.Read the full review
The film makers understand that it's possible for a romantic comedy to appeal not only to the heart, but to the mind as well.Read the full review
Feels repetitive at times, but its star power and willingness to undercut convention come through at the end.Read the full review
Ultimately, My Best Friend's Wedding works for some very old-fashioned reasons: It skillfully engages us in the story and its characters. And, for no additional cost, it has something to say about how we live, act, commit and relate.Read the full review
And when [Roberts is] on screen with Mulroney, who seems a frat-house jerk -- all dimples and a perma-tan -- we don't feel much of anything.Read the full review
The story isn’t bright enough or grand enough to contain all of Roberts’s star power.Read the full review
One of the pleasures of Ronald Bass' screenplay is the way it subverts the usual comic formulas that would fuel a plot like this.Read the full review
The real casting disaster is Mulroney. His blandness in the role makes it impossible to believe two beautiful women would fight over him.Read the full review
Julia Roberts glitters like gold dust, and she is ideally partnered with Rupert Everett, who gives a witty, wicked, bust-out performance.Read the full review
Poor Roberts, pretty and perky as the day is long, hasn't a hoot in hell of bringing Julianne off. She's simply not actress enough, she doesn't have that suppleness that would enable her to sell the complexity of emotion, the jealousy, the irrationality, the meanness and the intelligence.Read the full review
