Love, Wedding, Marriage

Movie review by S. Jhoanna Robledo, Common Sense Media
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Common Sense says

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Ho-hum romcom covers well-worn material; some iffy stuff.

PG-13 2011 91 minutes
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The parents' guide to what's in this movie.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this romantic dramedy about a marriage counselor trying to save her own relationship as well as that of her parents isn't too likely to appeal to tweens and young teens, despite the fact that Kellan Lutz (of the Twilight movies) and Mandy Moore star. The subject matter is a bit mature -- including discussions of affairs and allusions to strip clubs -- and the pacing is slow. There's also some drinking, light swearing, and loud arguing.

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Team Ethan Jostad Adult
October 30, 2011
age 13+

My review (spolier alert at end)!

This was a great movie! Saw it with one of my girlfriends the other day and we laughed so hard! But it is a sex-based movie with the words Jesus used many times. The husband says he will hump his wifes vigina some time this week, and they also make out on top of one another in the morning and he clearly is in his boxers and her only in a sexy night gown. It also has a scene where the young married couple start the dry to have sex on it, and when they are kissing profusely and starting to undress each other, the father walks in on them. But the movie has a good message to it, and that is, the daughter tries to keep together her parents who are in the process of spliting up after a 25 year marriage because they are un-satisfied with one another. In one scene the daughter tells her husband to take her father for a guys night and then the father is shown drinking vadka out of a younger womans belly button and the younger woman is only in a bra and very low cut jeans. But in the end the parents stay together and the married couple end up having a child together! Great movie though!

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What's the Story?

Eva (Mandy Moore), a psychologist who's newly married to her boyfriend of two-and-a-half years, Charlie (Kellan Lutz), believes in happily ever after. That is, until her own parents' relationship -- which was the inspiration for her career as a marriage counselor, since they worked so well together -- starts to unravel. Eva's mother (Jane Seymour) is still smarting over a perceived infidelity when she and her husband were separated; Eva's father (James Brolin) is suddenly religious. Obsessed with helping them work through their problems, Eva starts to neglect her own marriage. Then she discovers that Charlie has a secret of his own.

Is It Any Good?

LOVE, WEDDING, MARRIAGE is as ho-hum as the advice that the supposedly wise Eva dispenses to her hapless clients. The dialogue and plot are ridden with cliches -- for example, during an argument with Charlie, Eva complains, of all things, about the empty toilet paper roll in the bathroom.

Though Moore and Lutz try their best, they just don't have chemistry. (On the other hand, Alyson Hannigan makes a cameo and nearly steals the show. And Seymour is fairly authentic and grounded.) And must every workshop coordinator be loud and quirky? Ultimately, this is one of those paint-by-numbers dramedies that you're better off skipping.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about infidelity. How does the media typically portray it? How does this movie compare? Do you think it's believable?

  • How does this film compare to other romantic comedies about marriage and honesty? Parents, talk to your teens about your own values regarding relationships.

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