#LoveWeddingRepeat

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Love Wedding Repeat (2020)

Love Wedding Repeat only had one novel thing going for it. Had this been done right, the movie might’ve been saved but writer/director Dean Craig botches it completely. With no laughs, no romance, cliches upon cliches, and characters you don’t even love to hate, this movie struggles - and fails - to validate its existence.

At his sister Hayley’s wedding, Jack (Sam Claflin) is allowed to reconnect with “the one that got away”. He and Dina (Olivia Munn) are seated at the same table but so is his nightmare of an ex-girlfriend (Freida Pinto), her new man (Allan Mustafa), socially inept Sidney (Tim Key), the man/maid of honor who is more concerned with launching his acting career than helping the bride (Joel Fry), his ex-girlfriend and -worst of all - Hayley’s stalker, a coke-head named Marc (Jack Farthing).

This is another rom-com that asks us to cheer for a wet noodle of a protagonist. Jack had his shot with Dina but he didn’t think of calling her or keeping in touch during the three years they were apart. He didn’t care enough to put in the effort so why should we care about this "couple" now?

Everyone at the reception is beholden to idiotic rules no one in the real world would follow and they’re all too obsessed with themselves to be endearing. When Hayley (Eleanor Tomlinson) discovers Marc, she doesn’t try to kick him out. She asks her brother to knock him out with sleeping pills while giving him a spot at the same table as her brother and maid of honor. Then, runaway children switch the seats around, the spiked glass of champagne is given to the wrong person and all the couples are "broken up" by the new arrangement and drama ensues. Hystericals should too, theoretically. Instead, you grow frustrated. Come on Jack. You had THREE YEARS to get Dina. You can’t set aside your feelings for a day to deal with Marc? Bryan hasn’t even written a speech for his “best friend” and with only hours left before he must offer words of encouragement and he doesn't even care.

You'll wish you'd been given sleeping pills after hearing the jokes this movie has to offer. Look at Sidney, a man who - for no reason - has decided to wear a kilt to the wedding. He keeps complaining that the unfamiliar garment is too tight around the crotch (how?) and has to repeatedly adjust himself. He’s no one's friend. He doesn’t speak Italian so he can’t be a guest of Hayley’s husband. Why is he even there?

Up until about 20 minutes to the end, Love Wedding Repeat does NOTHING new. Then, a twist. We’ve seen this disastrous scenario play out when suddenly, the omniscient narrator (Penny Ryder) asks us “but what if the names had been re-arranged this way instead?” The film then rewinds and presents a different course of events, the “right” one. This gimmick is set up early on, but why? We only see two scenarios so you know the second one will end happily. You learn nothing about the characters. All you get is more of your time wasted.

Love Wedding Repeat is well shot but the script and story are worthless. It’s the kind of movie you’ll dislike all the way through and then forget within days, leaving you full of negativity that's got nowhere to go. The end credit deleted scenes don't help. (February 12, 2021)

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Check our our review of Love, Wedding, Repeat. While trying to make his sister's wedding day go smoothly, Jack finds himself juggling an angry ex-girlfriend, an uninvited guest with a secret, a misplaced sleep sedative, and the girl that got away in alternate versions of the same day. #movie #film #cinema #loveweddingrepeat #netflix #samclaflin #oliviamunn #romanticcomedy #romcom #netflixoriginalmovie #moviereview #filmsnobreviews https://www.instagram.com/p/CCAesV0l8Ej/?igshid=1r5ia8vjkko7c

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LOVE, WEDDING, REPEAT

Il 10 Aprile è uscito su Netflix “Love, Wedding, Repeat”, la commedia romantica diretta da Dean Craig e ambientata a Roma. Il film è il remake della commedia romantica “Plan de table”, realizzata in Francia nel 2012

Trama

Hayley, una ragazza inglese che ormai da molti anni vive a Roma, sta per sposarsi con Roberto, ma il giorno del matrimonio niente sembra andare come previsto, finché…

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‘LOVE WEDDING REPEAT’ IS ONE WEDDING TO SLEEP THROUGH

Eleanor Tomlinson and Sam Claflin play brother and sister in the film

Love Wedding Repeat was released on Netflix on April 10, 2020. The film is an updated version of the 2012 French short film Plan de Table, which follows eight guests at a wedding.The synopsis Netflix provides for its newer version is simple enough - “Different versions of the same day unfold as Jack juggles difficult guests, unbridled chaos, and potential romance at his sister’s wedding.” 

Basically, a wedding meets Groundhog Day. That actually sounds pretty interesting.

So why was Love Wedding Repeat so bad?

It’s nearly impossible to answer that question without doing some serious digging and examination into the movie. Is it the shallow plot, tonal inconsistencies, or Sam Claflin’s atrocious haircut that caused Love Wedding Repeat to miss the mark? Let’s march down the aisle and see.

In this post, I will:

Summarize the plot

Conduct a character analysis for the ensemble (spoilers!)

Examine the  film’s poor execution of “repetition” 

THE PLOT

From the start, it’s obvious Love Wedding Repeat has close to no concept of time. We start out with Jack (a miscast Sam Claflin) and Dina (a pretty, but boring) Olivia Munn at the end of a stay in Rome, where they’ve supposedly spent time together and fallen in love. Dina is the roomate of Hayley, Jack’s sister. Now, not only is the romantic chemistry between Jack and Dina non-existent - it’s really more of a sexual tension - but so is the desire to care about the two of them ending up together. The two are interrupted before a kiss can occur, and eventually head their separate ways.

Sam Claflin and Olivia Munn play love interests to one another

Fast forward 3 years and Hayley is getting married to wealthy Italian Roberto, causing Jack and Dina to reunite. The “3 years” might as well have been the next day, since there appears to be little growth in any of them - especially Jack, who still struggles to formulate a sentence around Dina. Luckily, Hayley’s placed them at the same table. But Jack’s desire to make a move is constantly interrupted by the other guests, and the distractions only grow when Hayley’s ex-boyfriend Marc shows up to crash the wedding and a sleeping drug is misplaced in a champagne glass. And when love doesn’t prevail, the movie switches things around: showing us another seating arrangement at the table that changes the situations of each character. What should be a wild ride that eventually ends with love (and yes, a kiss) - feels shallow and undeserved.

THE CHARACTERS

The ensemble is talented, but lacks cohesion

JACK

Sam Claflin portrays the main character

I like Sam Claflin. I really like Sam Claflin. He’s more than suitable to handle these types of films, with romances Me Before You and Love, Rosie under his belt. But, here, the lack of personality to Jack’s character makes it difficult for Sam to bring much to the film. Now, Sam certainly does carry the film, but it’s definitely breaking his back in the process. There’s only two things to know about Jack: 1) he likes Dina a lot (I still doubt it’s love - despite what the film says) and 2) he loves his sister. Everything else: dead parents, a job as an engineer, an ex-girlfriend -  all which would help bring a sense of depth to Jack as a person - is simply mentioned and never truly explored. His bumbling speech and “just can’t win” trait make it hard to not like Jack, but it does grow old after a while. One would think that losing Dina 3 years prior and finding her newly single would make Jack jump at the chance to make a move, but he still struggles to articulate his feelings to her, or even ask guests to leave so he can speak to her alone. It hurts to watch Jack’s awkwardness be one of the biggest barriers between him and Dina - the film would strengthen if Jack was actively trying to speak or flirt and then was pulled away. Jack’s supposed conflict of having Amanda, his ex-girlfriend, attend the wedding is hardly a conflict, given their relationship seems to have consisted of more sex than substance and Dina barely seems to care about Amanda’s presence. In an attempt to make Jack have something to his character, he ended up with nothing. Well, nothing but a kiss and a wealthy brother-in-law. 

HAYLEY & ROBERTO

Eleanor Tomlinson and Tiziano Caputo play the marrying couple

Hayley and Roberto are the couple causing the “wedding” in the film’s title, which fails to show a ceremony and instead, spends the film at the reception. Now, Roberto plays next-to-nothing of a role in the film, so let’s focus on Hayley, who is arguably the cause of all conflict in the film.

During her relationship with Roberto and (fairly near to the wedding), Hayley slept with old classmate, Marc, who unexpectedly shows up to the wedding to declare his love for her and expose the secret. Hayley threatens to have security to remove Marc from the wedding, but decides that recruiting Jack to drug Marc with sleeping medication is somehow a better idea. How? In the first scenario, the infidelity is exposed and during an argument with Hayley, Roberto accidentally falls off of the balcony to his death. In the second (and final) scenario, Marc has a change of heart, keeping the secret to himself, leaving Roberto to live his married life in blissful ignorance. Apparently, if in the second scenario love prevails, being honest isn’t part of the deal. Hayley’s infidelity is excused because according to her “it didn’t mean anything” and she “loves Roberto!” If love truly prevailed - if Haley truly loved Roberto - the truth should’ve come out with Hayley admitting it and (hopefully) Roberto forgiving. But, that’s just me and my ideas. 

Anyways, Hayley also decides to invite Jack’s ex-girlfriend Amanda for whatever reason (it’s not even mentioned if Amanda and Hayley are friends) and to sit her and Jack at the same table. I thought she loved her brother? It’s no surprise when the table arrangement goes south, and is that the fault of the little kids who switched the name cards, or the bride who planned: not only for those particular people to sit at the table but to add a sleeping drug into the mix? 

DINA

Olivia Munn plays Dina

Olivia Munn really tries with this role. You can tell she attempted to bring something to the table with Dina, but - similar to Jack - there’s not much to her. She’s a foreign correspondent and former roommate/friend of Hayley, but she’s mainly just the pretty girl who’s Jack’s love interest. Dina is at the wedding as a plot device. She’s there to remind Jack to seize his chance at love, she’s there to be separated from Jack or whisked away, she almost exists as a symbol. Her story of being kidnapped whilst in Afghanistan and coming back to care for a sick mother who would eventually pass is played twice for laughs, making it hard to find anything to care about for her. “Does she even like Jack?” is what I wondered in the back of my mind. She definitely engages in conversation with him, but her flirtiness is hard to find as more than friendliness. It’s known that Dina is newly single, having broken up with an ex. While this is a golden opportunity for Jack, it’s not even determined whether Dina is interested in another relationship. It certainly would’ve been nice to see Dina try to make an effort towards Jack as well - truly making it feel as if both sides are being kept apart.

BRYAN & REBECCA

Joel Fry and Aisling Bea play Bryan and Rebecca

It’s established early that the comedic side-kick is Bryan, the man-of-honor-maid-of-honor, whose relationship to Hayley or Jack doesn’t feel entirely sincere no matter how the film tries. He doesn’t come across as a “ride-or-die” type of best friend, and it’s unclear how he and Hayley even met, or what his relationship is like with Jack. Is he best friends to both of them? There’s little time to ask these questions (not like the film would answer) since Bryan announces his plan for the evening: convincing famous director Vitelli to give him a role in a film. This “subplot” is little plot, since Vitelli’s presence or effect on the wedding is barely felt. In the first scenario, this plan fails tremendously, with Bryan (victim of the sleeping medicine) falling asleep on Vitelli and mid-speech. In the second scenario, the plan works, but only after he falls in love with Rebecca, the blunt Irish guest whose relation to Jack or Hayley is not made clear. Honestly, Rebecca was my favorite character, possibly because she had a clear personality. Even if her chatterbox nature was exploited for exposition, Aisling Bea plays the obliviously honest nature with such perfection that I didn’t mind. Rebecca and Bryan have supposedly dated, but in the end, the two end up together, so there’s little time to care about what caused the breakup. I could only wish that Bryan had acted as more of a wingman for Jack and Rebecca had been given a larger role, perhaps as a wingwoman for Dina.

MARC

Jack Farthing plays the coked-up wedding crasher

If Marc was more of a looming threat, his arrival could’ve easily saved the movie. In fact, I was intrigued by his arrival: who is this disheveled, red-eyed man stumbling into the wedding reception? Whoever he was, he was obviously up to no good. However, the one thing that makes Marc interesting: the secret of him and Hayley having slept together, is quickly taken away or avoided when Hayley reveals the information to Jack (and the audience) on her own. Marc is not much of a physical threat either, his druggy demeanor makes him easy to overtake, hence why in the first scenario he’s locked up in a armoire. While the whole situation with Marc could have easily been avoided had Hayley had security remove him, the sleeping drug intended for him never finds its way in his champagne glass. And what’s worse: the audience never gets to see that scenario. If Marc was intended to be the antagonist of this movie (which the film will try to convince you he is), he surely failed by barely being much of a threat to begin with. 

CHAZ & AMANDA

Allan Mustafa and Freida Pinto play Chaz and Amanda

If Hayley’s enemy of love is Marc, then surely Jack’s is his ex-girlfriend Amanda. Or, supposed to be. Unfortunately, what is told about Amanda is worse than what is shown. For someone who’s supposed to be extremely rude and problematic, Amanda just seems to be extremely annoyed at best. Even when seated next to Jack, she doesn’t bother commenting on the situation, but her unbearable fiancé Chaz sure does. His angry comments towards Jack seem to be coming from a place of hurt: Amanda has not responded to his marriage proposal six months prior. But where Chaz could really be a character to wreak some havoc, especially for Jack, his lines are delegated to unfunny penis jokes for nearly the entirety of the movie. No wonder Amanda is annoyed.

SIDNEY

Tim Key plays Sidney

Speaking of annoying, it’s time to talk about the last character of the ensemble: Sidney. Who is this guy? Once again, his relationship is not made clear and the audience is quite confused by the kilt-wearing-crotch-adjusting guest who lacks social intelligence. You can tell when Sidney is supposed to be funny and unfortunately it falls short every time. I guess him finding love in the end is supposed to make us feel some type of way, but it failed to move me. Every member of an ensemble should have something to contribute, and I can say - aside from a few scenes where he was needed to act as a barrier between Jack and Dina - Sidney was completely unnecessary in the film.

VITELLI

Paolo Mazzarelli plays Vitelli in the film

Why was Vitelli in this film? What exactly did he add? Is he actively scouting for a new movie or did guests just assume? What’s his whole relationship thing with Dina? He offered her a ride - was he romantically interested or trying to cast her? Who even is this guy? How does Roberto know him?  

I just...why?

THE ORACLE

Penny Ryder voices The Oracle

There’s a narrator in this film. Don’t ask why. Not only is she completely unnecessary and unhelpful, the message she spews for a majority of the film is not only untrue but contradicts the entire plot: that chance is the enemy of love.

“REPEAT?”

Confused, Bryan? So am I.

I don’t what’s worse: that I can’t tell you how many times the film lived up to the “repeat” part of its name, or that I don’t want to. It’s true: the film only plays out the entirety of two scenarios when it comes to seating at the table. The rest are muddled in what is perhaps the worst montage I’ve seen recently (and I’ve been subjected to multiple ‘senior szn’ recaps on IGTV), and offer no information. In this montage, we don’t know who has the sleeping drug, and the entirety of the table isn’t even in frame. You don’t know who is sitting where or who has the sleeping drug. I guess it doesn’t matter because Jack and Dina don’t end up together, but it does matter because it needs to make the wait worth it. The audience should be subjected to different crazy scenarios: they should realize how completely wrong everything has gone. They should be tired of reliving the same wedding reception, they should want Jack and Dina to end up together to just end it. 

But I must say, the best part of the montage was Jack and Rebecca end up tongue-kissing. That’s a scenario I’d love to see.

CONCLUSION

A kiss to end it all

I hate to bash a directorial debut. But I hate wasted potential more.

Love Wedding Repeat could’ve been something great - it really could’ve. It’s easy to see the same idea executed better going down as a modern rom-com classic. But Love Wedding Repeat’s failure to live up to its name is a major disappointment, especially giving the talented leads (who are better off playing friends than a couple). The idea was certainly there, and so were the resources. I mean, they shot on-location in Rome. But if Love Wedding Repeat shows anything, it’s how a lackluster script can truly harm a concept. You can’t tell us sad stuff about our characters, show the sadness. Show the tension between Jack and Amanda, show us the camaraderie between Hayley and Bryan, show how reckless and wild Marc is - make us care and understand. It shouldn’t just be Jack who wants a kiss between him and Dina - it should be us.

Overall, I can only hope what Netflix has in store for the future when it comes to rom-coms isn’t anywhere close to repeating this complete mess. 

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"#LoveWeddingRepeat can be a funny, charismatic, & an enjoyable romp. However, Dean Craig's script is frustrating by only dipping its toe in the water instead of diving in headfirst. It's an imperfect comedic #film that could have been a very good one."⭐⭐💫#SteamIt #Netlfix https://t.co/kPv4XW4Cx2 #film #filmreview #filmreviews #filmIG #shortandsweet #movie #movies #moviescenes #movieclips #moviequotes #movienight #filmcriticism #filmtwitter #filmcritic #moviereview #moviereviewer #movierecommendation #movietime #filmmaking #filmisnotdead #filmbuff #NetflixAndStayStill https://www.instagram.com/p/B-7Uvs5lcdV/?igshid=o5h355vm2djc

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‪It just needs one friggin’ twat to start a War! 'We live in a universe that's ruled by chaos and chance, where all it takes is just one moment of ill fortune for all our hopes and dreams to go right down the sh**ter.' - The #Oracle #LoveWeddingRepeat #Penguin #Nature #MovieQuote #HUmansSuck #InsectWars #Apriline #Apriline2020 #LignaClaire #NewWorld #Procreate #Procreate5 #DigitalArt #DigitalDrawing #artistsoninstagram #ArtistsofInsta #artistsontwitter https://www.instagram.com/p/B_EweMNA2xA/?igshid=1qcs8iqasbupw

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Reseña de #Amor, #Boda y #Azar (#loveweddingrepeat) la nueva comedia romántica para adultos ya disponible en la plataforma de @netflixlat. . ¿De qué viene? Diferentes versiones del mismo día se desarrollan mientras que Jack lidia con invitados difíciles, una dosis de caos y un posible romance en la boda de su hermana. . ¿Qué sucede? Jack (Sam Claflin-Yo Antes De Tí) se enamora de Dina (Olvia Munn) tres años atrás y se reencuentran en la boda de la hermana de Jack. . Durante todo este tiempo él no dejó de pensar en lo que no le dijo o hizo y este matrimonio era su oportunidad de cambiar todo, el detalle es que debe ayudar a su hermana a que el matrimonio no sea un desastre. . La película está dividida en dos historias, que ocurren en universos paralelos donde beber de la copa equivocada muestra dos destinos diferentes. . La historia posee varios momentos divertidos, retomando esa vibra de comedias como Cuatro Bodas y un Funeral, que resalta la ironía de revelaciones que llevan a situaciones de comedia negra. . Resumen Jack tiene infinitas oportunidades con Dina, solo debe cambiar su actitud. Está comedia romántica refresca el género con muchas risas y comedia negra. . Calificación 4 de 5 . Fuente de imagen @netflixlat . . #netflix #series #love #strangerthings #movie #netflixseries #netflixbrasil #movies #netflixandchill #romcom #romance #romanticcomedy #comedy #drama #bookstagram #film #movie #romantic #chinesedrama #love #kdrama #yuanhao #tv #movies https://www.instagram.com/p/B_EQdwBngZr/?igshid=priwv2fkn6i5

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I could only get through about 50 minutes. Found it to be boring #netflix #movieday #loveweddingrepeat https://www.instagram.com/p/B-9ztCHBsnw/?igshid=4y84kfmch6bf

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So i just watch this film on Netflix titled ‘Love wedding repeat’

and also when the characters said.. “what in life turned out as planned?” 

and then i thought, yeah... she was right.. life didn’t go the way we want them to. Most of the time, it messes up your plan. You want to go the left, and then life will turn you to the right.. sad reality. But sometimes, or most of the times... even if life messes up our plans.. it does makes it better than what we actually planned. And that my friend is what you call “God’s plan.” ;)

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Excelente película recomendada #loveweddingrepeat #netflix (en Bucaramanga, Santander) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-6CMc8gMUsJWWAM8zAD7-H3CkgrqlSyRcFpgE0/?igshid=4ce6crr5kh7x

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I hope #LoveWeddingRepeat comes to @netflix in the US. So many lovely familiar faces 😍 #Poldark #MeBeforeYou #romance #comedy #movies https://www.instagram.com/p/B-e_hz6pHxD/?igshid=1bibhd7cphc1f

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' Blue is my colour ' hahahahaha

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First look at Love Wedding Repeat

A new trailer has been released for Love Wedding Repeat, which is set to release April 10, 2020.

While trying to make his sister's wedding day go smoothly, Jack (Sam Claflin) finds himself juggling an angry ex-girlfriend (Freida Pinto), an uninvited guest with a secret, a misplaced sleep sedative, and the girl that got away (Olivia Munn) in alternate versions of the same day.