3/24/2023 0 Comments Wedding ringer![]() Kevin Hart works the material as best he can, and The Wedding Ringer works best when it allows itself to drift from its central premise. The Wedding Ringer sticks to its guns, hitting all the plot beats that one might expect from a movie espousing that philosophy. Instead, The Wedding Ringer never shifts its position. It seems like a stock stereotype that the movie is setting up to subvert – that Jimmy and Doug will eventually learn (in a “knowing is half the battle” sort of way) that marriage is a two-person enterprise that becomes shared at the moment of union. “Weddings are for the woman,” Jimmy assures his client, Doug Harris, in one scene. This is perhaps the most dialogue that The Wedding Ringer affords any female character in any one scene. Doris explains to Jimmy that male and female relationships work differently that it is tough for men to acknowledge emotion and to connect with one another. At one point, professional best man Jimmy Callahan (head of “TBM – The Best Man Inc.”) is confronted by his assistant Doris Jenkins. The Wedding Ringer comes packed with awkward gender truisms. ![]() The Wedding Ringer is an addition to the rapidly-growing subgenre that focuses on a stereotypically masculine perception of “the big day” – wondering what the groom makes of festivities. Producing a comedy about weddings can be something of a minefield it is very easy to play into the familiar gendered stereotypes the controlling fiancée or the disengaged husband-to-be. The bromantic wedding comedy is a fairly reliable comedy subgenre but it is also one that requires a great deal of care. ![]()
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