Despite the cliches, shameless sentimentality and rampant unsubtlety, it’s an engagingly enjoyable comedy tear-jerker.

| Apr 13, 2022

My favorite performance from Steve Martin especially the scene where he flips out over hot dogs

| Nov 27, 2020

Beyond its personally threatening nature, and its unnerving idea about laying out a life's hoardings for a single unrewarding day, this new version of the romantic comedy first filmed by Vincente Minnelli in 1950 feels false.

| Jun 5, 2018

The film's sole dramatic preoccupations are with broad physical comedy and unrealistically offbeat characterizations; a few moments of nominal pathos are really just structural pauses in the joke series.

| Dec 20, 2016

The strengths of these films are not so much laughs as sincerity and heart. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2012

"Father of the Bride" should bring a smile to anyone who's been in a family that's had a wedding-regardless of your point of view. But the sequel doesn't offer quite the same level of comedy and insight.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 11, 2012

Neither the '90s nor the husband-wife team of Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer (they wrote the new version, she co-produced, he directed) can match the original film's grace or wit.

| May 23, 2011

The film belongs to Steve Martin, whose crisp, almost bitter delivery, although frequently off-putting, manages to put an edge to a film that, without him, would be mush.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 23, 2011

The film does work, but not quite as well as the Hepburn-Tracy classic that it seeks to replace. Mildly amusing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 23, 2011

A charming, if pointless remake of the Spencer Tracy classic.

| May 23, 2011

Steve Martin's sweet-natured wedding weepy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2011

Best stuff here comes strsight from Martin, such as his frenzied antics in the in-laws' house or his ridiculous Tom Jones imitation in front of a mirror in a too-tight tuxedo.

| Mar 26, 2009

Humdrum remake of Tracy classic, but has its moments with Steve Martin.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 21, 2008

See Spencer Tracy in the original instead.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 17, 2008

Some sequences and dialogue are lifted directly from the original, but in the wider context, this merely serves to underline the remake's comparative lack of tenderness and subtlety.

| Jan 26, 2006

For all its glad-handing of cheer and all-encompassing warmth, has a heart as tiny and cold and calculated as a Grinch's.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 12, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 4, 2005

...it's not difficult to see why the film has endured since it's release or why a sequel was commissioned just a few years later.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2005

Not much more than a fluffy little valentine of a movie, but there's still some actual warmth and wit underneath the "been there, seen that, nice wedding" exterior.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 8, 2005

This 1991 update of Father of the Bride may not be quite as touching or as funny as the older version, but it is still lighthearted, gentle, sweet, frothy fun.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 7, 2005