Overall Impression — Yay! Another dysfunctional family wedding movie.
THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Who’s your main character? — Kym.
What’s she trying to accomplish? — Professional: be a good guest at her sister’s wedding; Personal: deal with her issues while forming a new relationship with a new boyfriend; Private: deal with the ghost from her past of the car accident that killed her younger brother.
Who’s trying to stop her? — Her own demons, mostly.
What happens if she fails? — She ruins her sister’s wedding.
THE FOUR ARCHETYPES
Orphan — Kym is just out of rehab and arrives as a person semi-non-grata at her sisters wedding.
Wanderer — She tries to figure out how to be a good sister and good guest, ultimately needing to learn that her sister’s wedding is NOT about her issues.
Warrior — When she can’t get the acceptance she craves, she becomes more erratic, eventually wrecking her father’s car.
Martyr — Kym gives up nothing, however her sister seems to kinda, sorta, accept Kym for who she is. I think.
AND, IN THE END…
A cousin to MARGOT AT THE WEDDING, one of the first films I reviewed here . Sadly, the same comment I wrote then holds true now: “Another great cast squandered with self-indulgent storytelling. I’m not sure for whom this movie was made, but unpleasant characters running around saying and doing unpleasant things seems to me like something that would appeal to only a small handful of potential audience members. “
This is a movie which is made by a great director and with a performance by Anne Hathaway that is heralded by people who herald things as being Oscar worthy. Whether it is or it isn’t, I can’t say. All I know is that $10 million dollars in domestic ticket sales after 3 months of general release can’t be all wrong…if you know what I mean.
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