"Das Hochzeitsvideo" (which means "The Wedding Video") is a German movie from 2012, so this one has its 5th anniversary this year and if you see it, you will probably really wonder why with quality like that director Sönke Wortmann is famous in Germany. Well it mostly has to do with his earlier works and then again the only thing you can really blame him for here is that he agreed to direct it because the camera work is not that bad, but the script (by Gernot Gricksch) is a complete mess really from start to finish of these slightly under 1.5 hours. It is basically the outcome you'd imagine if you hear about the German approach to "The Hangover" gone completely wrong. What was the worst thing here. The man's best friend and best man? The ridiculous ending scene at the church? The ex-boyfriend porn actor? The missing ring? The rushed-in drama where they made it look as if the wedding is really in danger? It is totally impossible to mention just one. The film never manages to be funny at all, has nothing to do with reality and has several characters that are written over the top in the most vomit-inducing way one could imagine. The film is mildly known because of Wortmann's involvement, but it probably would have been mostly forgotten without him. Also the amateur wedding video idea clearly limits him in terms of any chance to save the film. Actors probably realized what mess this was turning into and the consequence is that even the lead characters are portrayed by people that not even film buffs like myself have heard of. Obviously nobody really in the cast here has the talent to elevate the horrible material, but probably Oscar winners would have failed there too. Pop singer Sasha is the only famous face in here playing himself as a less inspired version of Matt LeBlanc on Episodes that gets old as quickly as everything else about this movie. A definite contender for weakest career effort for everybody involved with this project. The best thing about it? That it did not run for 100 minutes or even longer. Definitely skip this one.
Review of Das Hochzeitsvideo
