License to Wed
by Ken Kwapis
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Actor: Christine Taylor, Eric Christian Olsen, John Krasinski, Mandy Moore (II), Robin WilliamsDirector: Ken Kwapis
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-30
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of License to Wed
DVD Review: Great Movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
I realize a lot of people hated this movie, but come on! Movie's are meant to be enjoyed and if you want realism, try a reality show. "License to Wed" was a great movie. I have not laughed so hard in a long time. I especially enjoyed the robot babies in the department store changing room scene. I watched it over and over again, because of it's slaptstick qualities. Granted the robot babies did look a little creepy, but it just added to the laughs.
Robin Williams is a great actor and his one liners are hard to beat. Maybe his role was a little far-fetched, especially all the spy parts. But he did it with a certain elegance that made me laugh and want to see the movie again and again.
There is probably no movie ever made that has 100% realism. If there was, it would be boring and there would always be few people that would think it is unrealistic.
So instead of looking at "License to Wed" as a monumentally unrealistic movie, see it as a rollercoaster ride of laughs and what it is like to learn to get along.
I am looking forward to purchasing this movie after renting it from NetFlix, because in this world with all of it's negativity, it is great to laugh and find something to pick me up when I need it most.
DVD Review: Robin Williams - Good, Movie - Just OK
Summary: 3 Stars
Reverend Frank (played by Robin Williams) holds this movie together with a portrayal of a psycho reverend that puts couple, Sadie and Ben (played by Mandy Moore and John Krasinski) through a couples workshop before the big day (aka wedding). He puts them through some grueling and insane things such as bugging their apartment, staging fights, no sex till the wedding, taking care of a set of fake babies, etc.
The movie has its laughs and the acting isn't half bad (although to be honest without Robin Williams you wouldn't have much of a movie). I give it a three because although it was cute and I got through it, I was bored. Some parts of the movie follow along the similar lines of all the other wedding movies. There are some funny parts where I found myself chuckling (when Reverend Frank really goes overboard) but then again, the ending is pretty predictable.
My suggestion would be to make it a rental, or an on clearance purchase. Unless of course if you don't like Robin Williams, then I wouldn't see it at all, because the rest of the movie won't keep you interested long enough to get through it.
DVD Review: average at best
Summary: 3 Stars
License to Wed isn't one of Robin William's finest moments, but he was easily the highlight of the film. While he had some funny lines, the main storyline of the movie is about two young people in love who have to go through some rather silly steps in order for Robin to agree the couple are ready to marry.
If you were to take out Robin Williams from the movie, you'd be left with one unmemorable storyline. The actor and actress who played the man and woman in love were good enough in their role, but weren't really funny or interesting when the story focused on them. It always had to be Robin Williams on screen to keep things above average.
In fact, the final 20 minutes of film were really average and looked like any other romantic comedy out there. About as predictable as you'd expect a storyline to be. A very average conclusion.
The one thing about the movie I DID like was when the young couple were foolish enough to believe they'd never get in a fight with each other *ever*, and Robin had to show them that EVERY couple gets involved in an argument from time to time. I liked that part.
DVD Review: Some license...
Summary: 2 Stars
I rented this movie recently, but was dismayed by what Robin Williams has come down to. I mean, I've seen what I would call some of his best works till date - Good Will Hunting, Insomnia, Bicentennial Man... why, even Mork & Mindy, and I was terribly surprised by what he's been made to do nowadays.
After the smash crash "RV", one would have thought he would do better. Well, he perhaps does.
The story revolves around a couple who decide to enroll in a pre-nuptial course run by a Minister, who guarantees that it will make them ready for married life. Little do they know that by going through this, they might possibly end up with no married life at all.
I mean, seriously, some of that stuff is outright crazy and stretched. Like that sequence about "learning to fight fair - especially when you've never had a fight before", or "driving blind-folded"... the intro / breaking the ice routine is typical Robin Williams stuff, and was actually reasonable. However, most everything else is not.
See this movie only if you are a die-hard Williams fan. Under no other circumstances. No other performer does anything worth writing home about.
2 out of 5 - only because of RW.
DVD Review: Forgettable nonsense
Summary: 2 Stars
Not even Robin Williams could save this movie. And normally I like him. What's wrong about this movie? Mandy Moore is just there to look pretty (sorry but she is), the male lead is just a pain, there's annoying priest-to-be, and Robin Williams seems to be sleep walking through the role.
Of course when you're a couple you have all the firsts: first time you set eyes on each other, first date, first kiss, first time you go to bed together, then there's the whole moving in process, the engagement, the marriage, the baby. Not necessarily in that order. But in order to lower the divorce rate, Reverend Frank tries to make couples fall out before the wedding, therefore negating the purpose of the wedding. He tries his hardest with one couple, who seemingly have never had an argument (do they ever talk?) to realise that they shouldn't get married. (What's wrong with living in sin? Buy rings but the rest is just a piece of paper.)
Really, Licence to Wed is not worth seeing. It's instantly forgettable, with characters sleep walking through their roles, and this certainly isn't Mandy Moore's or Robin Williams' best movies.
Description of License to Wed
Newly engaged Ben Murphy (John Krasinski) and Sadie Jones (Mandy Moore) can't wait to start their life together and live happily ever after. The problem is that Sadie's family church St. Augustine's is run by Reverend Frank (Robin Williams) who won't bless Ben and Sadie's union until they pass his patented "foolproof" marriage-prep course. Consisting of outrageous classes outlandish homework assignments and some outright invasion of privacy Reverend Frank's rigorous curriculum puts Ben and Sadie's relationship to the test. Forget happily ever after--do they even have what it takes to make it to the altar? Also available in HD format.Running Time: 91 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?COMEDY/ROMANTIC COMEDY UPC:?085391160694 Manufacturer No:?1000025306Marriage is a huge step in any relationship and, with the divorce rate skyrocketing, some clergymen find it advisable to council prospective couples prior to the marriage ceremony. Reverend Frank (Robin Williams) takes his marriage preparation course to a whole new level, putting couples through a very unusual and grueling set of classes that cover everything from trust and communication to experiencing childbirth, meeting each other's needs in and out of bed, and group sessions on how to fight fairly. Happy couple Sadie Jones's (Mandy Moore) and Ben Murphy's (John Krasinski) perfect compatibility is tested to the limits with extraordinary (and hysterical) assignments like caring for twin baby robots that cry and poop without restraint while baby-sitting a friend's two young children and shopping for wedding china. Driving a car blindfolded while one's intended gives directions is no simple task either, but abstinence from sex and writing their own marriage vows may be the couple's most difficult homework assignments. Comedy reigns throughout the entire movie thanks to Robin Williams, his choir-boy assistant Josh Flitter (Nancy Drew) and the rest of the cast and laughing out loud is definitely a course requirement for viewers, but underneath the hilarity is a serious message about making marriage work. --Tami Horiuchi DVD features
- Includes widescreen anamorphic and full-screen versions
- Additional scenes with optional director commentary
- Ask Choir Boy: Choose which relationship/marital questions he answers
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