Really Well-Planned

Rating: 8/10 (3 August 2005)

This movie really hid a lot of its good points. They really didn't advertise Will Ferrell in this film, and he was hilarious in a sad pathetic way. You wondered what dumb girl fell for him, but you just went with it and whispered to yourself, the heffa deserved it if she could fall that loser. More to the point, the film just didn't seem that funny from the trailers. I was begged to see it and walked out laughing and more determined to create a site with memorable lines from films I've seen. Wilson and Vaughn have a great chemistry that can't be denied. You just didn't see a lot of the humorous moments coming, which is important in a funny film. Everyone played their parts extremely well, but I'm confused about Jane Seymour's "Touch them and see if they're real" moment. I thought that was going to be explained, but it never was. It never even came up again and you just wondered, why did we just see that? Awkward...
The guy who played the "homo" brother, according to granny, was just weird, lol. He had his face and posture in a perpetual seizure as if epilepsy was a part of his life. I didn't think it was necessary for him to stand out, but you noticed him a little more. The over-competitiveness of that reject boyfriend and the rest of the psycho-Brady Bunch was another humorous note. It was like watching an illegal American Eagle commercial with the light colored plaids and solid stripes. I felt lost and wondering what the hell was going on? Rachel just didn't sell me. The hair color was just wrong for her first off. It looked like a wig, but you knew it was her hair. I would recommend a black hairstylist. We know how to blend baby girl. However, beyond that, I felt that she was playing a character very much similar to the one she played in "The Notebook" as Allison Hamilton. It was just a more modern time. You don't get the appeal about her for Owen and she's not doing anything different than she did in that movie. She's the rich girl who doesn't quite like her lifestyle, so is amused by us lesser mortals. And why the over-exaggerated sense of her community involvement? Come on. Who in college still knows non-profit organizations like Greek-letter ones? Her character just didn't make any sense, but you could tell they just had to make her "different". No, she was as eccentric as that mad-cap family.
The period where Owen plunges into utter despair at the loss of Claire (and the alliterative/rhyming last name was a bit over the top, just a bit!) was like, huh? I thought this film was supposed to be funny. It was unneeded and unsightly. We could've gotten the point with him walking around looking longingly at other couples. It made the film longer and took it on an awkward turn toward melodrama and sincerity. All in all, the film was funny. It's really sad if people do this. I kept wondering throughout the initial segments of the film where it showed their wedding crashing montages if they'd try a black wedding. I didn't think their ruse would play out too well there. But, I wanted them to try just for the amusement factor of them being disassembled before being thrown out. Oh, we don't play with that kinda wedding crasher nonsense, lol. Do take a gander at the film. It was surprisingly funny and charming.