Wild Angel

This corny, cheesy American romantic comedy deserves to be fried, burnt and regurgitated. When you think of the cast you might expect a little more but unfortunately they fail to reach the altar. Robin Williams stars as the exasperating Reverend Frank and Mandy Moore and John Krasinski act as the happily engaged couple, Sadie Jones and Ben Murphy. It is a light-hearted comedy but unacceptably mediocre. Ken Kwapis directed The Sisterhood of the travelling pants, and to see him slaughter his career with this is quite a disappointment.

The movie sets off to a hilarious start, but everything goes downhill from there as the humour becomes tasteless and unsatisfying due to its unimaginative script. Disasters are highlighted to make everyday situations seem funny; however, we have seen this countless times. This movie will only be humorous and entertaining for people who are easily pleased by clichéd jokes. There is unquestionably nothing exceptional about this movie but it will amuse you with its humour around religion, love, family and marriage. It’s definitely not worth making the effort to go to the big screen, but it has the potential to get you cracking under the sheets on a cold, rainy, miserable day when you have nothing better to do.

It is the type of comedy we have all seen before but many still enjoy. The director could have made much more of it in terms of originality and style. It’s not exhilarating and does not capture one’s interest too much because of its completely unoriginal and bland plot. It is definitely not one of those memorable comedies, it’s just another hopeless film coughed up by Hollywood.

Sadie is a domineering and Ben is the typical, flawlessly sweet and subservient boyfriend, who loves Sadie to bits. This is John’s first big screen leading role. His personality and good acting brings his character to life. For an experienced actress, I don’t think that this was one of Mandy’s better pieces, to put it mildly. I expected much more from Mandy since this is her 9th appearance in a big screen comedy, but John’s performance definitely was impressive and will help to keep viewers a bit more interested.

It was not an absolute failure, even though it’s so predictable. It just does not make a lasting impression. Unlike most romantic comedies however, this movie focuses a lot more on the comedy side and this would make it much more appealing to male viewers who may find most romantic movies as soppy. This would be best recommended as a good date movie because there’s no difficulty in getting the plot so if you get a little distracted you’ll miss nothing. Both men and women will enjoy it because this romantic comedy is well balanced. There are no real surprises in License to wed as it abides to all the romantic comedy conventions, which inevitably leads to this failing its license at the cinema.