(To avoid spoilers, only read the 2 paragraphs after this one)
After watching the trailer, I thought this could be fun: rich boy gets engaged to working class girl, and a funny clash of cultures between the families follows, as in e.g. My Big Fat Greek Wedding. And for the first 20 or so minutes, that is what we get.
Then it turns strange. The boy and girl become background characters, and it becomes a romantic drama about the mother of groom, torn between her feelings for the energetic father of the bride, and her loyalty to her rich but boring scientist husband. And it becomes more light drama than comedy.
OK, now the spoiler:
the boy and the girl happily marry, but the affair between the mother of the groom and the father of bride causes both their marriages to break up, leaving all four of them single. I know life is sometimes like that, but having two marriages break up is not what I call an enjoyable romantic comedy.
After watching the trailer, I thought this could be fun: rich boy gets engaged to working class girl, and a funny clash of cultures between the families follows, as in e.g. My Big Fat Greek Wedding. And for the first 20 or so minutes, that is what we get.
Then it turns strange. The boy and girl become background characters, and it becomes a romantic drama about the mother of groom, torn between her feelings for the energetic father of the bride, and her loyalty to her rich but boring scientist husband. And it becomes more light drama than comedy.
OK, now the spoiler:
the boy and the girl happily marry, but the affair between the mother of the groom and the father of bride causes both their marriages to break up, leaving all four of them single. I know life is sometimes like that, but having two marriages break up is not what I call an enjoyable romantic comedy.