License To Wed (2007)
8 %
Reviews Counted: 117 Fresh: 9 Rotten:108 Average Rating: 3.1/10
Consensus:
Featuring one of Robin Williams' most shtick-heavy performances, the broad and formulaic License to Wed wrings little out of its slightly creepy, unappealing premise.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Theatrical Release: Jul 4, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $43,745,954
Synopsis: An all-star cast inhabits this romantic comedy about a couple who must endure a humiliating obstacle course of a marriage-training program in order to gain permission to wed from their church's over-the-top reverend (Robin Williams). Hilarity follows as the lovebirds (Mandy Moore and THE... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: John Krasinski, Robin Williams, Mandy Moore, Christine Taylor, De Ray Davis
Director: Ken Kwapis
Screenwriter: Kim Barker, Tim Rasmussen, Vince DiMeglio
Producer: Arnold Messer, Mike Medavoy
Composer: Christophe Beck
Screenwriter: Kim Barker, Tim Rasmussen, Vince DiMeglio
Producer: Arnold Messer, Mike Medavoy
Composer: Christophe Beck
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Sadly, License to Wed lived up to my expectations 100%. That is to say, it was unfunny and uninspired.
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08/25/08
As someone engaged, I felt they disrespected what marriage can and should mean. And most importantly, I'm offended at their attempt at cringe-worthy humor.
03/03/08
You know it's bad when there are more interesting things happening during the outtakes in the closing credits than in the movie itself.
10/24/07
It's not quite as bad as some would have it (it will not, for example, kill puppies), but it is really very horrible.
09/12/07
This movie is an ecclesiastical disaster and, like the Rector of Stiffkey, Williams should be thrown to the lions.
08/18/07
The biggest letdown, is Williams, whose manic improvisations now bear all the hallmarks of a pub bore.
08/10/07
Robin Williams is back in this horrifically embarrassing and misconceived wedding comedy.
08/10/07
Josef Goebbels had a home movie made of the failed 1944 Hitler assassins being hanged from meathooks with piano wire. It probably had more laughs, more fun, more feelgood moments than this family comedy.
08/10/07
The comedy, starring Robin Williams as a reverend who won’t marry couples until they have passed several ridiculous tests, raised a good few laughs.
08/10/07
License To Wed never escapes the combined trap of terminal blandness and a severe lack of decent jokes.
08/10/07
This bewilderingly bone-headed movie convinces that Ben and Sadie, should be kept as far apart as possible, if only to prevent them from breeding the kind of morons who would see nothing wrong with a movie such as Licence To Wed - or worse still, make it.
08/10/07
Ken Kwapis’ comedy ploughs a well-tended furrow, from the hard truths our lovebirds discover to Williams’ family-friendly schtick. There aren’t enough laughs or sparks to warrant saying, “I do!” at the box office.
08/10/07
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08/10/07
Dismal comedy that's every bit as bad as the words Robin Williams plays a comedy priest might lead you to expect.
08/10/07
If ever there was lawful impediment for a marriage to not go ahead, it's this mess of a movie.
08/10/07
Dismissing License to Wed as a comedy unworthy of a sitcom is to insult sitcoms.
08/04/07
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