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Griffinheart
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Posted: July 30, 2008 at 12:00am
Nearly every romantic-comedy ever released has been described as "the perfect date movie", but most either focus too much on the romance or comedy side or are just too damn annoying (here's looking at you Serendipity). Nonetheless, the closest this genre is going to come to perfection was achieved in 1998 with "The Wedding Singer."
Robbie Hart, played by the then not as goofy Adam Sandler, is an excellent wedding singer: he keeps the crowd entertained, smooths over abysmal best-man speeches, and makes sure that even the kid who just found his drinking limit has a good time. Robbie's back-up singer George could use a little help...with wardrobe...make-up... learning more than one song...gender selection...but Robbie makes every wedding he plays at wonderful. Which makes it ever so ironic that his own wedding is ruined when his fiancee never shows up. This sends him into a depression and out of the wedding singing business. The only bright spot left in his life is his new friend Julia (Drew Barrymore), who desperately needs help planning her wedding. But, when Robbie finds out that the man Julia is going to marry is a lecherous hump, will he let sleeping (around) dogs lie or will he follow his heart?
Now onto the somewhat more technical description. The actors were selected very well for their parts. Adam Sandler is perfect as a depressed loser, and Drew Barrymore is plenty innocent enough to be the naive girlfriend. Other roles were well cast as well: Alexis Arquette as the androgynous George, the old drunk guy at the bar, and the limo driver Sammy played by Allen Covert.
Time out for one of my favorite movie quotes (no idea why I love, I just do):
Robbie - You hit two cones. Those could have been guests at their wedding!
Sammy - They were cones!
The pacing is just fast enough to be neither boring nor incomprehensible. The humor and romance also walk the perfect line without straying towards either extreme. But this brings me to a difficult point. I really want to give this movie a perfect score, but I just can't bring myself to. While this movie will forever be on my top 10 list, its greatness is almost too subtle to punch me in the gut and demand a 10/10. If someone told me that was the score they thought it deserved, I wouldn't argue, but, today, I'm declaring:
The Wedding Singer - 9/10.
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Tristan
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Posted: July 30, 2008 at 8:48pm
\"The best man, the better man.\"
This is my favourite Sandler movie, hands down. 10/10.
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Nirrad
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Posted: July 30, 2008 at 9:18pm
Not my favourite, but still great.
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Crispy
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Posted: July 30, 2008 at 9:53pm
One of a very small handful of Sandler movies I like, but damn do I like it a lot.
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Edd
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Posted: July 31, 2008 at 9:33am
After this, Sandler started to go downhill. Not a Billy Madison or Happy Gilmore, but a great movie in it's own right.
\"Little news flash, Pop. Harold ain't so perfect. Remember that time in Puerto Rico when we picked up those two, uh... well, I guess they were prostitutes, but I don't remember paying\".
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bluemeanie
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Posted: July 31, 2008 at 2:56pm
Sorry. I hated this film. Adam Sandler's only semi-decent comedy was \"Happy Gilmore\" and he was the least humorous part of THAT film. \"The Wedding Singer\" is lame through and through with Sandler's same ridiculous schtick. 3/10.
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Lucid Dreams
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Posted: November 22, 2010 at 3:33am
Come on meanie, open up to some Sandler. 7/10
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