Parents' Guide to

The Wedding Planner

By Nell Minow, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 14+

Disappointing would-be romantic comedy with innuendo.

Movie PG-13 2001 103 minutes
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age 11+

Based on 4 parent reviews

age 12+

Unrealistic

No drugs, some drunkenness. Gives an unrealist idea of relationships - As if at a chance meeting and a dance you know that someone is the love of your life. Personally I preferred the “loser from the home country” to the somewhat slimy doctor.
age 10+

The best romance with just the right amount of everything

Amazing and a romantic movie there is kissing but no sex so don't worry about that some drinking and silly violence such as horseplay one drinking scene and barely any swearing watch it.

This title has:

Great messages
Great role models

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Kids say (5):

The Wedding Planner is a disappointing would-be romantic comedy -- neither comic nor particularly romantic. Its biggest problem is a sitcom-style script with too much emphasis on the situation and not enough on the comedy. It fails to create a single believable or sympathetic character. What it gives us instead is a string of barely related skits about people whose behavior ranges from inconsistent to random. The result ranges from dull to annoying, with the few comic bits already overly familiar to us from the commercials. Jennifer Lopez is a talented and attractive performer, but she does not have the acting or comedy skills to transcend the limits of the script. She looks beautiful, but a little remote and unsympathetic.

There is no real narrative, only different locations for the characters to get into faux-adorable fixes. Here's one example: Mary and Steve knock over a nude male statue and his genitals break off. Much hoped-for hilarity but no actual laughs ensue as they try to glue it back on. Here's another example: Mary and Steve run into Mary's former beau and Mary hides under a table to avoid him. But they run into him (with his pregnant wife) anyway, and Mary responds by getting drunk. Two weddings have to be disrupted before it can all get straightened out and even that never-fail standard of the romantic comedy drags on until we can go home to find something better to watch on UPN.

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