![]() ![]() ![]() The wedding itself is an afterthought – we’re not introduced to the groom until nearly the end of the film – so the movie is a series of vignettes that are basically extended skits of physical comedy. They all descend on long-suffering Eloise in London and waste no time dredging up petty annoyances and grievances from their past. Paul, goaded by his partner Dominic (Karan Soni), has time on his hands based on an unplanned, and unpaid, leave from his job. Alice, who’s sleeping with her married boss (Jorma Taccone), is promised that he will be her plus-one. The plot does backflips to get them on planes from their various cities of departure. ![]() Neither Paul nor Alice has an interest in attending picture-perfect Eloise’s upcoming nuptials (mostly due to a withheld slight between Alice and Eloise, but also a long-festering feeling of inferiority). The redoubtable Allison Janney is Donna Stevenson, the much-divorced Mom to gay Paul (Ben Platt), single Alice (Kristen Bell) and half-sister Eloise (Cynthia Addai-Robinson). ![]() Yet this story of a dysfunctional American family wreaking havoc at the wedding of their British half-sister squanders the comedic talents of a crackerjack cast and strains, desperately, to make us laugh. The characters recognizable from the source material. ![]()
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