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 enlarge | Director: Michael Ian Black
Actors: Dennis Albanese, Jason Biggs, Audra Blaser, Julia Montgomery Brown, Mark Consuelos
Studio: MGM
Category: Movie
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 7185
Genre: Comedy
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 92
ASIN: B001408D4K
Theatrical Release Date: February 1, 2006
Release Date: September 30, 2008
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It was OK March 24, 2008
Just an OK comedy, not musch to add i bought it for the lead actor/actress, and they were . . . well OK.
 Jason Biggs is in need of a new agent February 23, 2008
"Wedding Daze" Written and directed by Ian Michael Black, also released as "The Pleasure of Your Company".
Anderson (Jason Biggs) is in what he believes to be a committed relationship to the woman of his dreams. He intends to propose to her dressed as cupid at a fancy restaurant but the proposal goes awry and leaves Anderson's Fiancé to be, dead of shock. Anderson is devastated by the loss and left feeling that he will never fall in love again. A year passes and Anderson hasn't gotten out of his slump. Anderson's friend Ted (Michael Weston) suggests that Anderson won't find happiness again unless he tries to find it. At his suggestion Anderson ask the next girl he sees to marry him who happens to be, Katie (Isla Fisher) who is in a relationship with a guy who her mother loves although she isn't so sure she loves him. Her boyfriend had recently proposed over a family game of charades but Katie wasn't sure and said she had to think about it. For some reason she feels Andersons proposal is a good idea even though she has never even met him and agrees to marry him on the spot and comedic hilarity ensues......
This has to be some of the worst script writing that has ever made it to film. I really feel bad for Biggs and Isla Fisher because I really like both of them but this cant be a good indicator of things to come.
The Good: ?????
The Bad: None of the comedic situations in this movie worked. The words Hackneyed and trite come to mind when thinking about them. A lot of the comedic moments felt like poor "American Pie - Unrated (Widescreen Collector's Edition)" rip offs. The end result was a comedy that wasn't funny at all.
The overall plot and story are implausible at best and ludicrous at worst which would have been fine if writer/director Michael Black was attempting to take us on a "Dude, Where's My Car??" type ride. It seems like he tried slip seamlessly between that genre and the slightly more realistic situation comedy genre ala "Knocked Up (Unrated Widescreen Edition)" and it just didn't work. This left the movie with a very awkward "Hodge podge" type tone which left you wondering how seriously you were supposed to be taking the characters or subject matter.
Overall: If you need to see Biggs in a movie about weddings check out "American Wedding - Unrated (Widescreen Collector's Edition)". If you need to see Isla Fisher in a movie about weddings, check out "Wedding Crashers - Unrated (Widescreen New Line Platinum Series)" but do not waste your time on Wedding Daze.
Immaturity Shines Through Black's Directorial Debut February 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
With Wedding Daze (formally The Pleasure of Your Company), the directorial debut from Michael Ian Black, I expected a romantic comedy in the vein of Wedding Crashers... though that is probably only because both star Isla Fisher... what I got, though, was a gag-full American Pie-esque romp centering on two individuals with just the right amount of crazy that makes it hard to root for them either separately, let alone together.
When the opening credits rolled, I clapped with glee over the potential: Joanna Gleason (Kim from Friends) played Katie (Fisher)'s mother, a skeletal Joe Pantoliano as her father, Heather Goldenhersh (Lizzy Caplan's sister on The Class) as her best friend, and Matt Malloy as her adoptive father... not to mention the aforementioned Edward Herrmann as Anderson (Jason Biggs)'s father. Herrmann is a man I've loved since he played Macaulay Culkin's father in Richie Rich, and I will pretty much give anything he's in a try, allowing it the benefit of the doubt because he's such a classy, intelligent actor that he must choose his projects with care. His first scene in Wedding Daze made me shake my head and exclaim: "Oh, Richard Gilmore, no. Just no!" as his on-screen wife licked whipped cream from his face. Unfortunately the ones that followed (presenting his son with his c*ck ring; watching two naked women less than half his age make out on a rug in front of a fire in his living room) just proved that not even the cast could save this crude romantic comedy.
Wedding Daze starts off simply enough: a young romantic's whole world crashes down around him when the girlfriend to whom he is in the middle of proposing collapses on the floor in front of him. He spirals, needless to say, and decides on an impetuous whim to propose to the woman currently waiting on him in some roadhouse diner. Luckily, she is just as spontaneous (read: nuts) as he is, and though she had been pondering a proposal from her Charades-loving boyfriend, she needs nothing but a split second to scream in joy and accept the hand (though no ring) of Anderson. Fisher is one of a handful of this generation's true comedic gems, whose talent would be best suited in a female-centric piece in which she can really shine. Needless to say, Wedding Daze is not one such piece, and in it, she is forced to take a backseat to prop humor (a diaphragm ending up in a sandwich... is that the best you could do? Really?) and the much more one-note Biggs. He relies on his bright white smile to endear his audiences, but years after first winning them over as a big-eyed, geek-chic teenager, the act (like himself) has just grown old; he has not matured.
Katie and Anderson go through the usual dance of trying to fit into one another's worlds and overcoming the obstacles of different families and friends but still come out on the other side wanting to get married. I think they have known each other for about four days at that point. The movie picks up quickly from there, as the duo steal a car to elope, all the while Katie's mother and biological father hold up a hardware store to get their daughter the money for a proper wedding. Arresting chaos ensues, including a cameo standoff with Rob Corddry, and Katie delivers her "Despite all of our insane obstacles and the red flags advising us otherwise, I want to be with you" speech while both families are behind bars. Her words-from-the-heart (or perhaps the gun she shoots at the ceiling) is somehow enough to convince everyone (perhaps because it's the eight-minute mark, and for a comedy this thin, that's nearing the end) because thirty seconds later, they are marching down the aisle at the little Atlantic City wedding chapel at which her own parents eloped twenty-odd years ago. The Reverend tells the happy couple that he can personally guarantee anyone who marries at his establishment will be happy forever, but it's way too late for the love affair with this movie.
(Though I will admit the "Jewnicorn" and "Jewlahoop" did elicit a chuckle.)
Wedding Daze should have ended there, but Black (who was a hybrid on this project) just couldn't end on a genuinely sweet (albeit completely unrealistic) moment. Instead, he gave us another six or seven minutes of drawn-out residual drama in the form of a mock-police standoff, at which point I had had more than enough and just ended the $3.95 rental prematurely. Michael, I still love you for your witty Stella performances and snappy VH1 Countdown Lists commentary, but please, please, please stick to in front of the camera work until your sense of humor hits puberty.
 Surprise January 29, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
It wasn't that bad, It was surprising good and heart warming. A movie doesn't need to be pioneering or edgy it just needs to be entertaining and this movie was very entertaining. It was refreshing in that it wasn't edgy or trying to hard. I've seen every movie to come out in 2007 and 2008 and this was far from the worst of them. With all the bad reviews I'm sure it will suck for most people, but give it a chance.
Wedding Daze January 26, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
There are bad movies. There are stupid movies. There are silly, pointless romantic comedies. For others, there should be a scale of badness that's entirely their own. This movie is that movie.
Movies like American Pie and There's Something About Mary are smart stupid comedies, movies like Wedding Daze are just plain stupid.
If you thought Good Luck Chuck and Shallow Hal were horrible, wait until you see the outrageously, intolerable gags in this lowly film.
The whole script is a tutorial on how not to write a screenplay. The entire movie is a Filmmaking 101 lesson - how not to make movies. It's a shame that good actors such as Jason Biggs and Isla Fisher were used, abused rather.
There's usually a reason for not releasing movies in the theater, and this movie rightfully set on the shelf for two years before getting a straight-for-DVD release last week. Nonetheless, that was not enough - in this movie's case, the tape it was recorded on should've been destroyed.
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