Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon’s video film is anyone who except you.

The Rom-Com Amazon Prime You are cordially invited is written and directed by Nicholas Stoller, who made some of the most memorable comedies of the 2000s and 2010s, in particular Forget Sarah Marshall And THE Neighbors movies. His new film is also a step back at that time in other respects. He co-stars two of the biggest prints at the aughts box office, Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon, although each in a role that none of them would have taken a large comedies of friends at this moment than warm romances And Witherspoon because 20 years ago, she was interpreted as the bride with high interview herself, rather than the older sister of the microgestion of this character. The idea of ​​bringing these two titans together with Hollywood sympathy – the veterans, in the case of Ferrell literally, of the comedy of the old -fashioned – promising studio. The emphasis on the “HAD”.

Jim de Ferrell is a widower only one dad who raised his only child, Jenni (Geraldine Viswanathan Blockers and 2020 Bad education), since she was 6 years old. Their father-daughter connection is so close to becoming an in progress, the pair, immediately short-circuiting any suspicion of potential conflict with a demonstration of cooled affection. When Jenni announces that she marries her boyfriend (Stony Blyden), Jim represses her fears of abandonment by gushing in Superdad mode, by reserving them immediately a wedding weekend at Maison Palmett, a small hotel on an island of The state of Georgia where he and his deceased wife married years ago. The problem is that the opposite of Jim, the elderly innkeeper who answers his phone call falls in death before being able to find a work pen to write his name – a gag of view of Pitch comes out of the genre that this often traising comedy Could have used more.

The margot of Witherspoon is a more delicate work, a producer of reality TV closely coiled in Los Angeles semi-elected from her family based in Atlanta because of a thorny relationship with her mother of judgment (Celia Weston). However, Margot loves her younger sister Neve (Meredith Hagner of Research part And Bad monkey), therefore when she learns that Neve is both engaged to a chippyal dancer fucked but adoring (American vandalJimmy Tatro) and secretly pregnant with her child, Margot is determined to go to the planning of the perfect marriage for her sister. Guess which distant island station she chooses to book for the blessed event? This is true, the Palmetto House, where the two families converge the first weekend in June for what each party thinks is a private family gathering.

After a certain negotiation with the anxiety manager of the Auberge (an underused jack mcbrayer), the two clans agree to share the limited space in defeating their expected events so as not to overlap. The shenanigans taking place in the coming days at double reserve should be predictable for anyone who saw a romantic comedy taking place during a wedding. At one point, a cake on several developed levels will crash on the ground. A quay collapsed from the participants dressed in the new in the water. A pair of guests will perform a Pop Sappy song (here, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, duo under “Islands in the Stream”) which is taken up by the whole casting under closing credits, just like last year with Natasha Bedingfield “unwritten” in the unpleasant but successful rom-com Anyone except you. And although not everyone ends up with the partner for which they thought they were intended, family rifts will be healed, long -term injuries will be confessed in tears and, at least in this case, living alligators will be struggled at the hotel. Bedroom beds, for reasons that are never entirely clear for characters or the public.

The best moments of You are cordially invited Come in its central section, when Jim and Margot dug in their battle positions and have sworn to put themselves both as an event organizers and as an emotional guards of their respective brides. Even when they work from a less than sparkling script, the huge reserves of Ferrell and Witherspoon films charisma, and their shared flair to play characters who are also comically self-absorbed as they are sure of their own Moral justice, do their committee of the launching episodes of the dance floor and this really funny wedding toast. Stoller also understands that no wedding comedy could work without a casting casting for terrible endearing parents, so he gives Margot an enlarged family that includes Leanne Morgan as a perpetually drunk and excited sister, Rory Scove as a dragon brother , and better of all, Celia Weston, flying each scene in which she is as a matriar of the hypercritical south whose barbed wire hides unexpected maternal warmth.

Unfortunately, You are cordially invited Finally, founders on the same rocky banks as many recent attempts to revive the Rom-Com. In his final act, while the intertwined aspects of nuptial chaos begin to resolve a relaxation among the newlyweds and their families, Jim and Margot abruptly emerge as a romantic partners themselves. Although the age distance between the two is not huge – Ferrell is 57 years at 48 from Witherspoon – there is a curious intention for these two as a couple, especially given their characters as previously established in the movie. Jim, we were shown in stage after stage, is an over-enraged father who really needs time alone to understand who he is. Margot, for his part, is a happy career woman who has never expressed any sign of dissatisfaction with her unique status. Associating them at the end as the lovebirds singing mutually the same song which was earlier used as an example of the co -pesting relationship of Jim and his daughter who leaves the spectator with a claustrophobic sense that the couple domm is the only happy end.

What if Jim and Margot had found themselves so close but who bicker friends, continuing to get up by text on the continuous bliss of their respective brides? Or if they had slept together in a moment of madness fueled by Champagne, only to make the next morning that although they were not a long-term viable match, at least they would still have that night at Maison Palmetto? So that the romantic comedy continues to evolve as a genre, a result that each fan of film seems to want, we need more viable paths towards a model of joy than the Shakespearean model to marry all the characters of the last scene. If You are cordially invited Merit your RSVP – and for unconditional fans of the genre, it could – it is because of the comic chemistry between its duel event planners. But each couple of quarrels in a wedding rom-com must end up as the figures above the cake?