Two wisecracking single friends attend endless, mortifying nuptials together in a predictable, familiar-feeling mashup of previous romantic hits
Here is a boilerplate romantic
comedy from first-time feature directors Jeff Chan and Andrew Rhymer, co-writers of the Hulu TV comedy PEN15, whose star Maya Erskine now takes the female lead. It is a formulaic mashup of Four Weddings and a Funeral and My Best Friend’s Wedding.
Erskine plays Alice, a smart Japanese-American woman who has just had a tough breakup with her boyfriend; her dorky best friend, Ben (Jack Quaid), is also single. So they agree to be each other’s plus one at all the mortifying weddings they’ve got invited to this year. Ben and Alice are always wisecracking and kidding around together and mocking the cute nonsense of weddings, and Alice is always setting Ben up with the hot women they see there. (“I totally microwaved that hot meet-cute for you!”) But then … well, you know what’s coming.