Like, I've never been a particularly big fan of any of the films that the Wayan brothers have done, and I generally don't find remakes of foreign movies to be all that great either. However, since it is pretty hard to actually locate the original I probably have to basically settle for this one, which I suspect is probably a lesser rendition, but I guess that is life.
Anyway, we have Rob, who is sort of one of those happy-go-lucky guys that just seems to let life be life, but after seven years his girlfriend has managed to convince him to marry him. However, there is a problem - he wakes up naked in an elevator and has only an hour to get to the wedding. The other problem is that after that one hour has passed, he wakes up in the elevator again. Mind you, he doesn't remember a thing about what happened the night before, but it does eventually sort things out, and we do end up with a happy ending.
The thing is that this guy is actually pretty lucky because it becomes clear that he is literally screwing up his wedding day, and he literally has an infinite number of chances to get it right. For instance, the father of the bride hates him, so he must win him over. Also, he is naked, so he pretty much has to find his tuxedo. Also, he was going to do the vows off the top of his head, so he has to work that out as well. All on top of trying to solve the mystery of who is trying to sabotage the wedding (it isn't the father - he's paying for it, so why he's paying for a wedding he doesn't want happening is probably a pretty big clue that he isn't behind it).
By the time we got to the end though, I thought that it was actually a pretty sweet film. Like, I didn't find it hugely funny, and apparently the original version is even worse than this one, but in part I felt as if they had done a pretty good job with this film. Sure, it isn't anything new, and of course nothing is going to beat Groundhog Day, but this film certainly still has some charm about it.
Anyway, we have Rob, who is sort of one of those happy-go-lucky guys that just seems to let life be life, but after seven years his girlfriend has managed to convince him to marry him. However, there is a problem - he wakes up naked in an elevator and has only an hour to get to the wedding. The other problem is that after that one hour has passed, he wakes up in the elevator again. Mind you, he doesn't remember a thing about what happened the night before, but it does eventually sort things out, and we do end up with a happy ending.
The thing is that this guy is actually pretty lucky because it becomes clear that he is literally screwing up his wedding day, and he literally has an infinite number of chances to get it right. For instance, the father of the bride hates him, so he must win him over. Also, he is naked, so he pretty much has to find his tuxedo. Also, he was going to do the vows off the top of his head, so he has to work that out as well. All on top of trying to solve the mystery of who is trying to sabotage the wedding (it isn't the father - he's paying for it, so why he's paying for a wedding he doesn't want happening is probably a pretty big clue that he isn't behind it).
By the time we got to the end though, I thought that it was actually a pretty sweet film. Like, I didn't find it hugely funny, and apparently the original version is even worse than this one, but in part I felt as if they had done a pretty good job with this film. Sure, it isn't anything new, and of course nothing is going to beat Groundhog Day, but this film certainly still has some charm about it.