As stale as last week's wedding cake.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 29, 2010

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2006

As forgettable as a Hollywood couple's marriage vows.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 20, 2005

Seldom has a movie so blatantly illustrated the need for genuine star power in the lead, especially considering The Wedding Date's obvious comparisons to not one, but three more successful Julia Roberts movies.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 19, 2005

Inexplicable Fantasy Romances for the Harried Modern Gal 101 is a more fitting title for this shameless mediocrity.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 19, 2005

And while Mulroney is definitely a breathlessly sexy performer even under the worst circumstances, he's given little to do here except act like a sexual Yoda and look wistfully at Messing.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 19, 2005

Nothing says true love like a movie about a desperate, neurotic woman who hires a male whore to take her to her sister's wedding so she can make the ex-fiance jealous. I wonder if they have a Vermont Teddy Bear for that?

Full Review | Feb 14, 2005

Clare Kilner's cast frolics in the countryside in an appropriately British-romantic-comedy fashion, and at times the characters trade silly snaps, but Dana Fox's screenplay is structurally shaky.

| Feb 8, 2005

Mulroney is a stealth actor: Whenever you see him in a picture, you're not just reminded of how good he almost always is -- you have the sense of discovering it for the first time.

Full Review | Feb 4, 2005

Admittedly, no part of the year is immune to bad romantic comedies. But what distinguishes The Wedding Date, what qualifies it so impeccably for turkey season, goes way beyond generic foulness.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 4, 2005

Like a bridal shower, it's probably more fun if you have some champagne first. Perhaps some enterprising theater manager will consider this.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 4, 2005

Not a single scene connects smoothly with the next, characters make head-scratching choices that come out of nowhere and logic consistently proves itself an enemy to be avoided at all costs.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 4, 2005

The film has an energetic grace, directed with fluid efficiency by Clare Kilner.

Full Review | Feb 4, 2005

Why Kat must be so emotionally clueless or her sister so selfish is a mystery that invites an essay about what women think of each other these days.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 4, 2005

This particular wedding-cake walk does feature the excellent comedic timing of Debra Messing and the charm and sex appeal of Dermot Mulroney, which will likely combine to make this film a hit with the date crowd.

| Feb 4, 2005

Even if we could buy the contrived setup (right: Debra Messing needs to buy a date), there is no thought to fleshing out the characters.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 4, 2005

Messing should know this is precisely the kind of movie Grace would ridicule Will for dragging her to see.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 4, 2005

Don't bother asking how an Ivy League guy would end up hooking. Such a query could only lead to some dark answers, answers that the filmmakers have no interest in dealing with but which would make for a much more interesting movie.

| Feb 4, 2005

A fairly mediocre film, not nearly as funny as it should be, nor as heartfelt.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 4, 2005

From the look of it, poor Debra Messing's first starring vehicle was an unmitigated disaster even before the cameras started rolling.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Feb 4, 2005