Film Reviews & Movie Analysis

On the day of his sister Hayley’s (Eleanor Tomlinson) wedding, Jack (Sam Chaflin) has the chance to make up for loosing out on a shot with her friend Dina (Olivia Munn) that has haunted him for the last three years.

Unfortunately Jack’s love life isn’t the only situation to be handled at this chaotic Italian wedding. There are a hundred and one ways things can turn out, and only fate gets to decide if we get the one we seek.

I don’t want anyone to be confused about some of the praise I’ll attribute to this movie so I’ll just tell you straight now; this movie is not great.

First and foremost I was a very big fan of protagonist Jack, and more specifically the fact that he did a great impersonation of Hugh Grant in every British Romcom he’s ever starred in. Plain, bumbling, awkward, polite and adorable. Its ‘Britishness’ is where most of this movies charm linger, as it has a feel of a modern day Four Weddings and a Funeral feel… minus the funeral (kind of).

I am the first to put my hand up and say that I’m not a fan of that ‘awkward British Comedy’ style, and yet I laughed a lot more than I would have thought. There was just something about the mix of general awkwardness, the anticipatory chaos and the mismatched group of people that just worked.

On the absolute flip side of the praise above, I will say for the first half hour I was unimpressed that the majority of the characters were pretty much exactly the same: Socially awkward Brits. I know there’s a stereotype, along with the excessive drinking (and casualness with cocaine apparently) but there are a handful of other tropes they could have pulled out and sprinkled across the core group to spice things up.

One of my biggest issues with Love Wedding Repeat is that it had a great, albeit unoriginal, formula for a movie and it was wholly underused. There is an episode of Community (S3 E4) that used the ‘alternate timeline/situation’ theory better in 22minutes than Love Wedding Repeat did with all of its 100minutes.

A quick one for the Poldark fans; both Eleanor Tomlinson and Jack Farthing star in this movie who might be more recognisable by their on-screen names in the series; Demelza Poldark and George Warleggan.

(Truly the pool of British actors is that shallow)

In conclusion, this movie featured a weird mix of cast but I wasn’t mad at it. There were definite elements of humour and the concept of the movie was there, however they should have committed to its use, and utilised it to its full potential, or left it out all together.

Love – 2/10
Wedding – 8/10
Repeat – 4/10