mcleajc
This is a great movie - I bought it as soon as the DVD was released! The main characters are great and believable - but Carrie Fisher makes this movie! As mother of the bride she is over the top and hysterically funny! The stuff she does is just crazy - who would think of telling their future son-in-law that his bride is out having "vaginal rejuvenation" to work out her stress? She is funny, sarcastic and waaaayyyyyy over the top! It's a great love story without her - with her and her dramatics - makes it a great and funny movie. The romance is pretty hot as well, Matt and Laurie really bring it on and there's definitely chemistry between them - and Matt is totally hot and lucky us, takes off his shirt and gets wet as well. Even my mom loved this movie when she borrowed it - I was lucky to get my DVD back! I guess I'll have to buy her her own copy!
kbanta
I can't imagine what would have possessed Carrie Fisher to be in this movie. Maybe she had a big house payment looming...I can't say. But I can't think of one good reason to watch this movie, so don't ask me why I did.It opens with Melissa (Laura Prepon from That 70's Show) waking up next to Carlos (Matt Cedeño) the day before her wedding. There's just one problem...Carlos isn't Melissa's intended groom. She's hung over and doesn't remember anything from the previous evening, not even marrying a total stranger.What follows is your typical meant-for-each-other-but-they-don't-know-it comedy of errors that won't provide any surprises. The few laughs (and I'm talking 1 or 2) come from Carrie Fisher as Melissa's headstrong mother. The only good thing I can say is Matt Cedeño is quite easy on the eyes, and the scenery is breathtaking. So unless you're a bride-to-be scouting locations for your honeymoon like the previous reviewer (I mean really...ever heard of a vacation planner?) you should avoid this movie.
dsummoner
I had the horrible misfortune of changing the channel to one that was showing this "thing that should not have been made." The plot was corny, tired and absolutely unbelievable. Furthermore, Laura Preppon as anybody but Donna just doesn't work. I kept waiting for the rest of the cast of characters from that 70's Show to appear at any moment as I watched the approximately five minutes of this movie that I could stomach. She has definitely typecast herself as Donna. The male lead, Mr. El Pollo Loco, was laughable in his role as well. What were the casting directors thinking when they cast these two in the leads? Princess Leah as a blimp did not help things either.
heathentart
I gave this movie a two because of the scenery, which is Alcapulco, Mexico and stunning.The cast can't act. In fact, the best acting comes from the native Mexicans cast in this movie of a bride, who wakes up on the day before her wedding to a scuzzy, wealthy guy, to find she's already married some unknown Mexican hottie. In a rather distasteful staged script, the bride, Melissa, went off the rails the day of her last bridal gown fitting because she found her fiancé, Brian, in bed with her wedding planner. So Melissa went out, drank something that made her blotto, and she woke up married to a stranger.The basic problem, besides the stupidity of the story, is that Laura Prepon, who plays the bride, cannot act. She's very pretty, but there must be more. Her lines are delivered in either low shriek or dumbfounded woodenness. Matt Cedeno, as her surprise husband, is handsome and has a body to drool over, but he's no Benecio Del Toro.To give them credit, they're struggling against a script that is about as bad as the worst of any Harlequin Romance. In fact, this entire movie screams of Harlequin category romances. What ever happened to the snap, crackle, pop of the 1930s and '40s madcap romantic comedies? There is a scene where Melissa and Carlos are chased by the Mexican police. They end up in a swamp filled with alligators. I found myself wishing the reptiles would win.Carrie Fisher plays an overbearing, wisecracking, loud mother-of-the-bride. Sadly, she sounds like a (much) older Princess Lea. I found her scenes with the Mexican hotel staff to be unnecessarily nasty. Yes, she's supposed to be a snob, but you don't have to be a racist snob.There is little to care about in this film. About 12 minutes into it, my eyes glazed over and stayed that way until the end. Anyone who can sit through until the end deserves a medal. Heck, *I* deserve a medal. Ah, well, the search continues for a good romantic comedy made for TV.
