Our Family Wedding 2010

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A broad and formulaic culture-clash comedy built on fill-in-the-blank wedding comedy cliches. Read more

A.O. Scott, At the Movies: Alternately flat and overwrought. Read more

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Alternately rancid and ridiculous, strident and sickly sweet, Our Family Wedding offers plenty that's old, borrowed and blue; it's the something new that's missing. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: The likable cast keep things watchable, particularly handsome Gross, who is surely destined for bigger things, and Ferrera, who's still as sweetly unaffected on-screen as she was back in Real Women Have Curves. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Most comedies would be content to mine the comic possibilities of Viagra only once, especially if they're going to devote considerable screen time to the dramatic acting of Carlos Mencia. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Our Family Wedding is another Hollywood fast-food sandwich. But instead of two squirts of ketchup someone actually took the time to lay some fresh tomato on that greasy bun. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: Instead of invitations, they should be sending out apologies for Our Family Wedding, a cake-and-kisses comedy that has disaster written all over it and not for the right reasons. Read more

Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Vacuous and contrived. Read more

Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: [A] slick, slapsticky, forgettable comedy, a cool-jazz riff on upper-middle-class American families sorting through misconceptions. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Our Family Wedding plays out like an elongated Disney TV episode, going precisely where you expect every inch of the way. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Be prepared to swallow a lot of empty-calorie jokes in which blacks and Latinos insult and misunderstand one another in a spirit of vigorous buffoonery before dancing together in maniacal harmony during the never-in-doubt wedding-scene finale. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Ferrera and Gross are the most appealing pair I've seen in awhile; their calm confidence is a welcome antidote to the unrealistic couples who've been cluttering our screens way too long. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: A cringeworthy, unfunny example of a culture-clash romantic comedy. Read more

Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: Wait till the DVD release. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: You almost miss the laugh track. Difficult problems are sidestepped, arguments are overacted, and there are three food fights involving wedding cakes. Read more

Kevin C. Johnson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: They're all generally nice people, so there's no reason why they wouldn't get along, except for reasons forced. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: To anyone who has ever sparked up a TV set, let alone entered a movie theatre, all this is perfectly evident in the first five minutes. Read more

Jason Anderson, Toronto Star: Rick Famuyiwa's movie repeatedly trips and falls on its way up the aisle. Read more

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Claudia Puig, USA Today: This mixed-race page from the Meet the Parents book is a tasteless exercise in familiarity and contempt. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: This broad ethnic farce serves up a full-on culture collision, but -- thanks to a handful of diverting performers -- stops just short of becoming a train wreck. Read more

Aaron Hillis, Village Voice: An unconvincingly broad culture-clash comedy whose Latino and African-American ensemble might've made for a progressive film if director and co-writer Rick Famuyiwa hadn't pandered to the lowest common denominator. Read more

John Anderson, Washington Post: The only bouquet anyone's going to catch from this contrivance has the aroma of stale comedy. Read more