5/10
Entertaining but so-so Spanish comedy with a lot of fun situations , antics , bemusement and with a bunch of hilarious roles
6 May 2022
Fun and funny comedy with hilarious set-pieces, good feeling, functional interpretations, laughters, amusement and entertainment. It is a remake to ¨Jour J¨ or ¨The wedding planner ¨(2017) written/directed and played by Reem Kherici. Set 2019, City of Madrid ., there Marina (Belén Cuesta) is a wedding planner in charge of preparing ceremonies along with her close friend Irene (Mariam Hernández) and her own botcher mother Lourdes (Gracia Olayo) as employee. In their last job Marina meets by chance Carlos (Alex Garcia) , one of the invited . Having a drink together , between the two lights the flame and they make sex in the idea that they not will meet again. When at the next day Carlos' fianceé Alexia (Silvia Alonso) finds Marina's calling card in his T-shirt , she assumes that he is planning a proposal and instantly says yes. However, the business card was actually for Carlos's mistress, who is now hired to plan his unwanted wedding. Carlos is unable to say her the truth , lying Alexia to make her believe that he wants to marry . Then Carlos and Alexia meet Marina, he learns Alexia and Marina are former school schoolmates and that Marina suffered bullying from Alexia. As the groom is now trapped between his bride and his lover who in charge of his unwanted marriage . Due to possible bankrupt , Marina is forced to accept the new assignment , moving they three to Tenerife to meet hotel owner Arturo (Antonio Dechent) , Alexia's daddy, and to plan the wedding between Carlos and Alexia , and about get married things go wrong , resuting in a series of disaster to come. Love affair to hide. A wedding to prepare. Everything that you can imagine is far from the stupid things that may happen her , as it results in the wedding celebrations turned upside down.

Nice and nutty comedy starred by Belén Cuesta , a new star of Spanish comedy . Fun and diverting Spanish romantic comedy with crazy events , amusement and absurd situations . This entertaining film packs amusement , comical situations , tongue-in-cheek , surrealist comedy including conventional pitfalls and many other things . Sitting in a strange middle ground between the completely absurd and the stylishly cool . This is another Spanish comedy romp , a bemusing story that contains lots of humor , entertainment , and involving a pecular wedding planner and her friends . This is a slightly funny film with entertaining events , giggles , emotion , profanities , twists and triangular love stories . The film moves in fits and starts most of which would be desirable , with more traps the viewer resists any kind , and some moments of enjoyment and others quite a few ridiculous . Humor is sometimes cheesy and gross-out with numerous naughty and picaresque situations such as sex jokes , bad taste , profanity , and adult scenes . This is a special Spanish comedy from the 2000s with the usual ingredients such as wild humor topped with a little bit of original touches here and there and the tone of the film is light-hearted . It's an agreeable , moving film , adequately acted and concerning the narration about the relationship among fiancée , fiancés , and brides . This is a typical and contemporary Spanish comedy similar to ¨Tres Bodas de más¨ by Javier Ruiz caldfera with Imma Cuesta , Martino Rivas , Quim Gutierrez , ¨La Gran Familia Española¨ by Daniel Sanchez Arevalo and ¨Quién mató a Bambi?¨ (2013) by Santi Amodeo with habitual ingredients such as silly humor , embarrassing events and close relationships among people . It turns out to be pleasantly fun that offers no intellectual stimulus whatsoever ; an exercise in pure amusement in which entertainment and fun are guaranteed . The characters are quite odd , grotesque and weird and the film races on at incredible speed . On the surface, ¨Hasta que la boda nos separe (2020)¨ doesn't get much wrong , it looks okay , the comedy misunderstandings pile up in a reasonably amusing fashion and the performance is acceptable . My feelings are extremely mixed but I must admit there are things I haven't been able to stop laughing about ; however , it also contains bad taste , piggy humor , abound sexual scenes and grossed themes . A few of the scenes are amusing , they elicit chuckles but no very enjoyable laughters . Sympathetic acting by Belén Cuesta as a woman who works as successful wedding planner in her own company but is unable to believe in love after her father was unfaithful to her mother when she was a child .Fine support cast , such as : Silvia Alonso, Antonio Dechent , Mariam Hernández , Gracia Olayo , Ernesto Sevilla, Adrián Lastra , Jordi Sánchez ,Juana Cordero, Antonio Resines , Leo Harlem as a likeable priest , and Malena Alterio as a Chef.

It contains a sunny and colorful cinematography by cameraman Chechu Graf , shot on location in Madrid, capital of Spain, and Canary Islands, west to Africa. As well as catching and moving musical score by Zavarias de la Riva, adding some popular songs . Being well financed by three important producers of the Spanish cinema : Eduardo Campoy, Mercedes Gamero and Mikel Lejarza. This fast crazy motion picture was regularly directed by Dani de la Orden. He is a good craftsman who has directed a few fine films, such as : "Mama o Papa" , "Hasta que la boda nos separe" , "Barcelona noche de invierno" and the successful "El Pregon" starred by Berto Romero . And some episodes of TV series as "Elite" and "Boca Norte". Rating : 5/10. Regular but passable . This average film will appeal to Spanish comedy enthusiasts and Belén Cuesta fans.
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