I Didn't Hate, Hate, Hate This Movie...

Rating: 6/10 (22 August 2019)

That's what Roger Ebert did with this movie, though I didn't. But I didn't find the movie particularly good either. The plot is standard romantic comedy: boy (the wedding singer) is about to marry an unsuitable woman, while girl (a waitress coworker) is engaged to a wealthy but horrible man. The rest you can guess.
The movie takes place in 1985 and is supposed to be about the decade, though as someone who lived through the 1980's and who has attended weddings, I never heard of wedding singers until I saw the title of this movie. Was this a 1980's fad? Funny, I remember Yuppies and those stupid yellow signs to stick into car rear windows but never this. Also, Boy George and Madonna may have been 1980's successes but Huey Lewis And The News, Peter Gabriel, and Phil Collins were bigger and more successful during that time period, and without resorting to gimmickry.
The movie did have one real surprise, though. Billy Idol showed up at the end to help the good guy defeat the bad guy. The icon of raw sexuality Billy Idol in a romantic comedy? That's like putting Fred Rogers into a slasher movie.