Breakup At A Wedding

I broke up at this wedding
Normally, I tend to avoid wedding movies because, well, wedding movies bore me to tears. Happily, this isn't one of those movies. There were tears here, too, but mostly because I was laughing so hard. I had no idea what to expect, and was therefore very pleasantly surprised by the story, which is told with 'found' footage via the very ambitious videographer (Vic James (Victor Quinaz) whose credits at the beginning of the movie remind me of the credits in the ultra-short "Bambi vs. Godzilla"). Shot from the POV of the two videographers who should get combat pay for their often stealthy shots), we ride along for a wickedly sweet story about nearly-weds Alison and Phil who decide to fake their wedding, so as not to disappoint their guests. Watching the couple frantically trying to keep things together (sometimes barely succeeding) was half the fun. And the hotel scenes (including a science fiction convention/party running concurrently with the wedding, with a hilarious collision between...

Highly recommend, very funny
Caught a screening in New York with a friend of mine, and it's not really my genre, so I didn't have high hopes. But we both laughed through the whole thing, and planned on showing to a few of our other friends. It's really funny, a lot like Bridesmaids with a kind of improv style sense of humour.

Breakup at a Wedding is hilarious. Check it out!
It's all in the title: Breakup at a Wedding revolves around some of the most disastrous nuptials you've ever seen. Coming from comedy film collective PERIODS., the film follows Allison and Pete as they try to put off the strain of splitting up until after they get married. It's all for show, of course, until they can get their relatives and friends to leave; after all, they don't want to disappoint. Naturally this leads to hijinks of the highest order in a film that is one of the funniest films I've seen all year.

The simple plot is hilarious on its own accord - a couple earnestly pretending to get married is clearly ripe territory - but world-duping aside, this film presents endlessly funny characters just lost in their faux-marital storm. Whether it's the groom sabotaging his best man with gallons of booze, the photographer who loves all the "calf meat," the increasingly odd role-playing party going on next door, or the token African-American couple shocked at the...

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