MaryAnn’s quick take… This strained comedy might have been progressive in the 1960s, but today it reeks of an infantilization of women that warrants squashing, not celebrating. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m desperate for stories about women
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
It’s Bridesmaids lite — very, very lite — in the tedious and dated The Wedding Invitation, in which three Los Angeles friends scramble for last-minute dates to the nuptials of a former high-school classmate. The strained comedy here might be progressive and feminist if we were still living in the 1960s, but today it reeks of an infantilization of women that warrants squashing, not celebrating.
It is disappointing to see a movie written and directed by a woman that casts female passive-aggressive idiocy as charmingly kooky.
Lucy (Rainy Kerwin) is so excited to have been invited...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
It’s Bridesmaids lite — very, very lite — in the tedious and dated The Wedding Invitation, in which three Los Angeles friends scramble for last-minute dates to the nuptials of a former high-school classmate. The strained comedy here might be progressive and feminist if we were still living in the 1960s, but today it reeks of an infantilization of women that warrants squashing, not celebrating.
It is disappointing to see a movie written and directed by a woman that casts female passive-aggressive idiocy as charmingly kooky.
Lucy (Rainy Kerwin) is so excited to have been invited...
- 6/12/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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