Are you with Reese Witherspoon or Will Ferrell? “You're Cordially Invited,” a new comedy directed by Nicholas Stoller, brings together two stars whose movie worlds are nearly as divided as wedding guests on separate sides of the aisle.
Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon’s Prime Video movie seems destined to be a streaming hit. I’m not sure it should be.
There is really nothing that is not completely predictable about Amazon’s Prime Video latest big budget romantic comedy, but with Reese Witherspoon back in the genre,,and Will Ferrell doing what he does best,
The most surprising thing about this by-the-numbers comedy, in fact, is that it comes to us from writer-director Nicholas Stoller. He updated Kermit & Co. so delightfully in “The Muppets,” tartly reconceived the revenge rom-com with “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” and scored on the small screen with both “Platonic” and the updated “Goosebumps.”
In this flick, directed by Nicholas Stoller of Bad Neighbours fame, Ferrell and Witherspoon play bitter rivals fighting over a wedding venue booked for the same day – a plot that harks back to noughties classics like Bride Wars and Wedding Crashers.
The duo's latest romcom 'You're Cordially Invited', directed by Nicholas Stoller, is currently streaming on Prime Video
Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon are rivals who crash each other's wedding parties in the unfunny Prime Video rom-com "You're Cordially Invited."
Their characters deal with a major hitch as their family members get hitched in a consistently funny wedding comedy.
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Weddings are meant to be joyous occasions, but in “You're Cordially Invited,” they become a setting for comedic mishaps.
John Serba of Decider says You’re Cordially Invited is almost funny enough and almost heartwarming enough, but ultimately the critic finds it “too long, too pointlessly chaotic and ultimately too blah to recommend.” Serba explains: