There’s nothing revolutionary happening in You’re Cordially Invited, but by feeling like something Dan Ackroyd and Goldie Hawn might’ve starred in in 1987, it brings back a welcome large scale frivolity to the mainstream comedy movie. More please.

| Apr 3, 2025

There are a lot of funny bits that will have you laughing, even if you're folding laundry or paying attention to a second screen as you let this unspool.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 19, 2025

You’re Cordially Invited is a fun film to stream with friends or family. With themes of generational trauma, relationships, and honesty, there’s something there for everyone, even if that something overstays its welcome a little too long.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 15, 2025

Half of Prime Video’s You’re Cordially Invited is a familiar but nicely played comedy about a Southern family wedding, white middle-class variety. The movie’s other half keeps disrupting it with sloppy slapstick.

| Mar 8, 2025

Look, I also saw the alligator. I get that you think I’m crazy. But try to overcome your entirely justified prejudice and you will probably have a good time.

| Original Score: B | Feb 20, 2025

"You’re Cordially Invited” is the kind of movie that you watch when you want to turn off your brain, have a few laughs and forget the world."

| Feb 19, 2025

Sure all the characters are over the top. Ever seen a zany comedy where they weren’t? You were expecting subtlety from Will Ferrel? In the end, the film is a well-meaning relief after a long day of dealing with all too frequent conflict and chaos.

| Feb 17, 2025

Dumb comedy on dueling weddings.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 15, 2025

You can’t make a romantic comedy work without the romance, no matter how much gator slapstick you introduce.

| Feb 14, 2025

The script isn't sharp or supple enough to accommodate both, and the direction lacks the spritz needed to compensate.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 13, 2025

Witherspoon and Ferrell are good but Leanne Morgan steals the show.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 13, 2025

Witherspoon and Ferrell can elevate can elevate even the lamest of material, but the material they've been give is just too lame and predictable. The star power of these two can't help it.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Feb 12, 2025

It might feel familiar and sometimes overwrought, but this comedy works thanks to its comic cast and string of silly situations.

| Feb 12, 2025

The movie really dumbs down to its audience and assumes they're not capable of understanding weddings, wedding movies, or comedies.

| Feb 11, 2025

You’re Cordially Invited is unfortunately a movie to be uninvited from.

| Feb 9, 2025

A January streaming release is like shoving your kid out into the alley and leaving them there for two hours. All the warning signs were there, but a chance to see a 90s-star-driven release prompted me to attend the screening. Bad idea.

| Original Score: D | Feb 9, 2025

Separately, Ferrell and Witherspoon are just fine. Together? Not so much.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Feb 8, 2025

It’s all entertaining enough, but you do wish Stoller could have reined in the slapstick, stabled the alligator and let the talking do the talking.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2025

This somewhat unholy combination of Father of the Bride, Sweet Home Alabama and, um, August: Osage County certainly has its moments, but despite the undoubted charisma and game-ness of its two leads, it only registers as fitfully funny.

| Feb 7, 2025

The strength of the film, written and directed by Nicholas Stoller is the rom-com power pairing of Farrell and Witherspoon, who seem like they could do this all day long, and we’d be only happy to tag along.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 6, 2025