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Director: Ken Kwapis
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In a lot of jobs, people get a gold watch after 25 years of service. Apparently, in the TV industry, after 25 years of work as a director, you finally get to make a feature film. I can’t think of any other reason that Ken Kwapis was allowed to make such a Kwappy movie, and that stupid ass pun is as about as funny as anything in this movie. Robin Williams, as talented as he is, is as hit and miss as a slot machine. There is a big payoff once in awhile, like Good Morning Vietnam or Mrs. Doubtfire, but as often as not we get Toys or Father’s Day. The story is weak, even for a comedy, and Mandy Moore and John Krasinski must have thought they were in for solid sailing, rather than an unbailable sinking wreck when they signed up to do a movie with Robin Williams. Oh well, the pay was probably good.
Robin Williams is Reverend Frank, most assuredly the creepiest man of the cloth since Robert De Niro played an escaped con posing as a priest in We’re No Angels. His congregation, which includes the rich, snob family of Sadie Jones (Mandy Moore). The young and bland Miss Jones has become engaged to an equally bland young man named something or rather, played by John Krasinsky. Miss Jones feels she can only be married in his church, but can only obtain a suitable date by agreeing to a binding pass/fail church course to assure their compatibility, or not allow them to wed. Problems predictably begin as the groom-to-be is unimpressed with Reverend Frank’s invasive counselling style.
License To Wed is a mix of Meet The Parents and Anger Management, but is not even as funny as either of those dubious projects. If you are lifting your head and making a face at my knock against your two favorite movies, then this one is for you. If you think that ‘dubious’ is too kind a label for them, then buy a copy of this DVD and run it over with your car as a public service.
