Love doesn't stink you know?

Rating: 8/10 (24 September 2009)

Robbie Hart is a popular wedding singer who's life gets flipped upside down after he is jilted at the altar. Enter pretty waitress Julia who's all set to marry her supposedly dream guy.
Oh the 80s was a fun decade, few like to own up to it, but yeah it was colourful and...The 80s, a time of big hair, Miami Vice fashions, red leather jackets and the Michael Jackson glove. All of which gets captured perfectly in Frank Coraci's The Wedding Singer.
Starring Adam Sandler as Robbi and Drew Barrymore as Julia, The Wedding Singer is a simple, but highly effective boy meets girl frothathon. The story has been told a million times in a number of other eras, but how many really tap into the zeitgeist of the time the way Coraci's movie does? A great soundtrack is backed up by a lovely poignant script, and our two protagonists are chemistry personified. Wonderful humorous support comes from Alexis Arquette as a Boy George wannabe, and Steve Buscemi pops in with one of the funniest cameos of the 90s.
It's possible that The Wedding Singer only really strikes a chord with those who were youth of the 80s? (it made over $100,000,000 profit though), and rest assured this is only one side of the decade we are witnessing. But it has charm in abundance and it's funny and irresistibly joyous. It has flaws if one wanted to delve down deep into the production, but really, why would you? They haven't made a film for intellectuals and muso's of the cinematic medium. They made a film about love in the 1980s and slyly took the rise on the way.
Now where did I leave my glove? 8/10