"The Wedding Planner" stars Jennifer Lopez as the planner, a secretly bereft soul named Mary who plans weddings for others, as opposed to her own. It's quite a lucrative business and only a true insider ( you, the audience), could see that she is bereft.
Well, one day whilst planning somebody's nuptials, she takes one look at the groom ( Matthew McConaughey), and that's it. Oooh and aaah. She's smitten. Whatever can she do now? Well, make a movie of it.
It is said that Jennifer Lopez is no Julia Roberts, in the inevitable comparison with "My Best Friend's Wedding," where Robert won hearts all around with a remarkable performance ( and, it is said, a far better script). She also had benefit of Rupert Everett as her marvelously gay sidekick.
McConaughey's performance has been called "mortally ordinary." However, on the sidelines, veteran actors, Joanna Gleason, as a thoroughly enjoyable tippling mother of the bride, and Fred Willard, capering around as a ballroom dance instructor, bring redeeming features to a movie that, apparently, could use them. Oh, by the way, groom Mc Conaughey's ersatz bride, a snotty, elite type, is played by Bridgette Wilson.
It is directed by Adam Shankman, and rated PG-13 for language and some sexual humor.
It starts Thursday at Sunny Isle Theaters.
