Our Family Wedding
Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: March 12, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
12
Negative:
9
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
SalonStephanie Zacharek
A breezy, uncomplicated, unapologetically broad comedy. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
A formulaic wedding comedy about mismatched families, but thanks to several appealing performances this rote exercise turns out better than most. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The movie is made livelier by its bit players -- King, Murphy, Lupe Ontiveros as Lucia’s bigoted grandma, Anna Maria Horseford as Marcus’s grandmother, Shannyn Sossamon as one of Whitaker’s airhead girlfriends, and, best of all, Anjelah Johnson as Lucia’s car-mechanic sister. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
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 full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
Though the intended hilarity is forced and flat, there's a sweetness to the silliness. Read full review
50
VarietyJustin Chang
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 full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A pleasant but inconsequential comedy, awkward for the actors, and contrived from beginning to end. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
The families' hopes for a tasteful, upscale wedding are sabotaged by warring egos and low-rent, walking-stereotype relatives. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
While patience is a virtue in a marriage, we shouldn't need quite this much to make it through a movie. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad Derakhshani
Wait till the DVD release. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
The contrived insult comedy here feels old, borrowed and blue. Read full review
50
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike Scott
It has a sweet quality, and Forest Whitaker gets a chance to show off his comic chops. Read full review
50
Boxoffice MagazineSara Schieron
It’d all be pretty ho-hum weren’t it for some decent chemistry between the leads and the effortless presence of Regina King and Forest Whitaker. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
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. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey
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 full review
38
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
A broad and formulaic culture-clash comedy built on fill-in-the-blank wedding comedy clichés. Read full review
38
St. Louis Post-DispatchKevin C. Johnson
Director Rick Famuyiwa did much better when focusing just on African-American culture in films such as "Brown Sugar" and "The Wood." Here, in bringing together two cultures, he does neither any favors. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
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 full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
We know to a certainty what will happen. More to the point, the writers know that we know. But here’s the intriguing bit: They don’t care. Rather, their job as diligent Tinseltown hacks is simply to devise ways of filling up the remaining 90 minutes. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
A cringeworthy, unfunny example of a culture-clash romantic comedy. Read full review
25
Tampa Bay TimesSteve Persall
Our Family Wedding should embarrass Whitaker and each of his co-stars, perhaps except Carlos Mencia, whose chief attribute as an actor is that he's a so-so standup comedian. Read full review
20
Village VoiceAaron Hillis
Might've made for a progressive film if director and co-writer Rick Famuyiwa (Brown Sugar) hadn't pandered to the lowest common denominator with brainless screwball laughs. Read full review
20
Time OutNick Schager
Aside from an uncomfortable-looking Carlos Mencia, who seems to actively cower before the camera, the cast is robotically efficient--though that’s not the same thing as coming out of this lifeless mess unscathed. Read full review
16
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
We remain a nation divided, but hopefully we’ve at least progressed beyond the need for clumsy message movies about racial tolerance, as fortified with dick jokes. Read full review
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