The Wedding Ringer

Plot synopsis:
Jimmy Callahan (Kevin Hart) provides best man services for guys who don't have the friends necessary for a wedding. As Doug Harris (Josh Gad), a successful tax attorney, and his fiancee Gretchen Palmer (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting) are planning for their wedding day, Doug becomes frantic searching for a best man. He faints and is referred to Jimmy's company, The Best Man Inc., by his party planner, Edmundo (Ignacio Serricchio).Doug is sent to The Best Man Inc., by Otis (Corey Holcomb), which is located under an amusement park. Doug meets Jimmy and asks him to pull off a "Golden Tux" (seven groomsmen) to match with Gretchen's bridesmaids, which has never been done before. Jimmy refuses, claiming he is complacent and doesn't need the pressure. After hearing Doug's plea, Jimmy agrees to be his best man along with a payment of $50,000 and all expenses paid. When going over the formalities for the wedding, Doug tells Jimmy his name is Bic Mitchum.Jimmy recruits some former friends. Fitzgibbons (Colin Kane), a criminal who escaped from a federal prison, agrees to be a groomsman because there will be seven bridesmaids to hit on. Next, he recruits Lurch (Jorge Garcia), a plumber, who agrees to get away from his nagging wife. Lastly, he recruits Reggie (Affion Crockett), an airline security agent, who agrees because there will be good food. Jimmy, his secretary Doris (Jenifer Lewis), Fitzgibbons, Lurch, and Reggie interview people willing to fill the four remaining spots based on their "party trick distractions." They choose Kip (Alan Ritchson), a sexy man with a stutter, Endo (Aaron Takahashi), who has three testicles, Bronstein (Dan Gill), who can dislocate and relocate his shoulder, and Otis, who can say every sentence backwards.Doug, excited, tells Gretchen that "Bic" flew in from El Salvador, and he will be at the wedding. He also presents to her two honeymoon tickets to Tahiti. Gretchen insists that Bic comes to the family brunch. Doug meets Jimmy and they memorize their identities. Doug also tells Jimmy that he must act as a military priest from North Dakota.At the brunch Gretchen's father Ed (Ken Howard) asks Jimmy what part of North Dakota he's from. Doug becomes nervous and almost blows his own cover until Jimmy accidentally sets Grandma (Cloris Leachman) on fire. They take her to the emergency room, and Jimmy makes up a lie to Ed that Doug used to play football. Ed challenges Jimmy and Doug to a football game with some of his old college teammates who will be at the wedding.Doug meets his groomsmen, who he is initially not fond of. Doris gives all of them fake identities, all of which share the last names of famous Los Angeles sports figures (Plunkett, Rambis, Garvey, Alzado, Drysdale, Carew, and Dickerson) which they have to memorize. Jimmy takes the groomsmen on fake photo shoots of skydiving, scuba-diving, bowling, running a marathon, and climbing mountains. As Jimmy realizes Doug is beginning to doubt him, he is taken to Edmundo's house. Doug learns Edmundo's flamboyant personality is just a ruse for better business. Edmundo tells him that the only key is to please Gretchen and her mother Lois (Mimi Rogers) and nothing else matters. To prove to Doug how good he is at being a best man, Jimmy takes Doug to a wedding where the best man (Josh Peck) makes a terrible speech. After, they have drinks and show off their dance moves. The two drink after the wedding and talk. Jimmy said he made an excellent best man speech for a minor friend which led to his career as a wedding ringer. Doug said that his father was an international tax attorney and moved frequently as a child, so he never got to make friends. He also tells Jimmy he's never been on a "guy trip" and just wants a friend to "sit down and have a beer with." When his parents died, Doug took over the business, and work consumed him, leaving him without a best man. Jimmy drives Doug home, and reiterates that they are in a business relationship, and Doug, although hurt, agrees.Jimmy, thinking about what Doug said, is reminded by Doris why he started his business in the first place. She tells Jimmy he needs a real friend for himself, and he is motivated to pull off the rest of the wedding.The next day, Doug is captured by Reggie and Fitzgibbons and taken to his outrageous bachelor party. He is introduced to Nadia (Nicky Whelan), who tries to seduce him. Doug instead befriends her and she later puts peanut butter on his genitals. Doug, who is blindfolded, is unaware that Jimmy and Nadia have a basset hound to lick off the peanut butter. When the prank goes awry, the groomsmen and Nadia race to the hospital and evade a cop chase. When Doug wakes up the next day, Nadia kisses him goodbye, and hints she would like to know him better. Later, the groomsmen play football with Ed and his college football friends, including Joe Namath, John Riggins, and Ed "Too Tall" Jones. A mud bowl ensues and Ed blows out his knee on the last play.At the rehearsal dinner that night, Gretchen's bridesmaids sing a song, while Doug's groomsmen create a slideshow of the fake pictures they previously took, winning Gretchen over. That night, Gretchen, speaking to Doug, notices Bic razors and Mitchum deodarant in their cabinets. She recognizes the familiarity in the last names of the groomsmen and deduces the scheme. She asks Doug about it but he brushes it off, saying Gretchen is paranoid, to which she reluctantly agrees.On the day of the wedding, the family priest cancels and is replaced by Jimmy's old Catholic school principal. Doug hatches an idea where Reggie and Fitzgibbons kidnap the priest and Jimmy officiates the wedding as Bic Mitchum. The wedding reception is initially successful. Jimmy passes Gretchen and congratulates her on the wedding. Gretchen exclaims that the wedding is a disaster because her grandmother has third degree burns, her dad's knee is blown out, the food is bad, the bridesmaids are not attracted to the groomsmen, the zipper on her dress is broken, and she isn't marrying the man she loves. Gretchen confesses to Jimmy she only married Doug because she was tired of having bad relationships and he can easily provide the lavish lifestyle she wants. Doug overhears this in the bathroom and tells Jimmy that he can't go through with the rest of the wedding. Jimmy dismisses Doug's ideas and makes the best man speech. Before Jimmy wraps up his best man speech, Doug stops it and reveals he and Gretchen aren't married since "Bic" is not a real priest. He also tells everyone that his groomsmen are fake. Jimmy, Doug, and the groomsmen try to escape. Before doing so, Jimmy asks Gretchen's sister, Allison (Olivia Thirlby) on a date, which she accepts. Doug pays Jimmy his $50,000 like he promised and they accept each other's friendship. As they leave, Jimmy has an idea.They use Doug's first class honeymoon tickets to Tahiti, taking him on a guy trip where the groomsmen, Edmundo, Doris, and Nadia, who begins her romance with Doug, party in the plane, while Lurch says that he "has a bad feeling about this flight."In a scene at the end of the credits, Jimmy and Doug are seen playing a painful game of tennis.

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Review:
Kevin Hart's best performance and sporadic laugh-out-loud moments, but it ultimately clutches onto the same tropes and beats as other movies of its ilk..
Not financially of course; the guy has been starring in more than a few comedies the past couple years, but critically, none of them (Ride Along, Get Hard, About Last Night) can be called a genuinely great movie.
This is Kevin Hart in his element - his most dynamic performance and playing a Hitch-style role where he gets hired to be people's best mans for guys who don't have any friends.
Josh Gad plays the loser character, and he and Hart have great chemistry and some very funny back and forth moments.
They may have defining traits, but not one of them feels like a fleshed out character.Structure is another problem in this movie because after an excellent setup, it starts going down the list of the same tropes and beats as every other zany wedding comedy.
But those moments become less and less often as the movie tries to tie itself neatly with a bow in the third act.The Wedding Ringer is good for a few laughs, but in the end it's just another Kevin Hart comedy that had potential but didn't explore it.
It did exactly what it seems it set out to do- make people laugh and have them walk away with the warm fuzzies.The characters have great chemistry on screen, especially Kevin Hart and Josh Gad. The plot is pretty easy to predict, but there are still a few surprises on how some points are executed.
There are some great laugh-out-loud moments, even with a couple of cringe-worthy ones (was the view of what the dog chomped on really needed?).All in all, I had a good time watching it.
The only thing i can think of that wasn't that great was actually Kaley Cuoco-Sweetings acting, she was a bit annoying in this movie.
Josh Gad and Kevin Hart bring the laughs out in this hysterical buddy comedy.
He hires Jimmy Callahan, played by Kevin Hart, to provide best men to attend his wedding.
A silly funny film that makes for a good laugh and realize the silliness of putting needless pressures on a big day in a man and woman's life.
He is easy for the audience to identify with.Kevin Hart is a natural to play the boisterous and gregarious Jimmy, who had to fit in all the tall tales that Doug told Gretchen about his imaginary "best friend" dubiously named Bic. Despite his character's filthy mouth prone to profanity, Hart still manages to be funny and engaging in a potentially annoying role.
The lead pair of Josh Gad and Kevin Hart share a vibrant bromantic comic chemistry together that is a lot of fun to watch.
This isn't the kind of comedy to sit down with your family and watch (due to the strong language in certain scenes, and moderate nudity) but, if you like raw, oddball comedies, with non-stop "laugh out loud" punchlines, then this movie will suit you perfectly.
He doesn't have any friends, so he hires a professional "best man" and his team, so he can offer to his woman the wedding she dreamed of.Josh Gad and Kevin Hart are not first class comedians.
The groom, played by Josh Gad, asks the agency for the "Golden Package" so the fake best man (Kevin Hart) recruits his close friends to help him with the job.
Budget: $23million Worldwide Gross: $80millionI recommend this movie to people who are into their comedies about a groom who hires a best man for his wedding because he has a lack of close friends.
Doug Harris (Josh Gad) is about to be married to Gretchen (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting), but has no friends he can call upon to be Best Man or Grooms.
I knew Kevin Hart would be hilarious cause that is what Hart does no matter what the quality of the actual film is, but the entire movie and it's cast turned out to be humorous as well.
The movie opens with Josh Gad looking for a best man after realizing his fiancé has planned an extravagant wedding using lots of bridesmaids.
Sort of like an I Love You Man, but with better and more colorful characters, the audience I saw this with laughed so hard at times I couldn't hear the next scene.
Above all, I rate this movie a perfect 10, because it's funny, surprisingly refreshing, and a comedy that actually makes you laugh..
Putting on a fake best man relationship I thought would have been stupid, and at times it is, but the concept is a bit of a change from the normal comedy film.
Kevin Hart and Josh Gad co-star in "The Wedding Ringer" and we've got intel on whether it should make your weekend watch list..
Any film that Kevin Hart stars in is sure to be funny and The Wedding Ringer co-starring Josh Gad, is no different.
However, "The Wedding Ringer" is funnier, much of that due to the actors' on and off-screen chemistry (listen to my interview with Hart and Gad for more intel).In this funny flick, Jimmy Callahan a.k.a. Bic (Hart) is in the business of finding best men for guys who can't find their own.
Needless to say, Bic finds a gaggle of guys that Doug dubs as "Goonies" and it's wedding day countdown to snap these misfits into tip top shape so that they are presentable for Doug's in-laws.The plot is predictable but the comedic timing of Hart and Gad makes this film hilarious.
I found Kevin Hart to be hilarious in this movie, it was a great comedy and great acting!
It's like the movie has a split personality, one good, one evil, both exhausted.The movie opens with the suave, charming pretend best man played by Kevin Hart (is he the "Wedding Ringer" of the title?
Anyway, our hero tracks him down to employ his services as a best man for his own wedding - he's an average looking fat guy with no friends who has improbably convinced some blonde babe to marry him: Kaley Cuoco, who has made a career of playing the blonde babe with an improbable connection to quirky geeks and misfits.If you aren't clichéd out by now, it gets worse: Kevin Hart doesn't want take the job!
In a wiser comedy, this material could actually be poignant and truthful, but of course it just goes for silly montages showing ridiculous ways of faking photos to convince people they have a history.The movie gets more than a little weird in its reliance on cliché when Hart has to assemble a group of groomsmen who will also pretend to be the loser hero's friends, and exclusively chooses weirdos.
Normally a predictable storyline can be excused in a comedy, if the jokes and little skits that fill the gap are actually good, but the sad part was, even their jokes were predictable for the most part; It's hard to find a joke funny, when you can predict the punchline ahead of its delivery.Realistically the only part of the movie I actually thought was funny was a simple little one liner at the end of the movie, which I won't disclose so to avoid spoilers.Only reason it isn't getting a lower score than 4 is because despite the substandard writing, Hart played his role well, as did Josh Gad..
Saw The Wedding Ringer starring Kevin Hart and Josh Gad at Regal Cinemas last night and it was too funny!
"Doug Harris" played by Gad is a loner, or man who has no friends, has to show his supposed dream girl "Gretchen Palmer" played by Kaley Cuoco Sweeting that he has some popularity and is not a loser.So to do this, "Doug" is in need of seven best-men for his wedding.
"Jimmy" hooks "Doug" up with some weird looking characters that are paid to act like they were his best buddies in an effort to pull of "The Golden Tux" of weddings.During their fake wedding, "Doug" finds out that "Gretchen" doesn't really love him, only wants to be with him because all she had dated were losers, and he is the only one who can provide her with the life she has only dreamed of.
"Doug" is with "Gretchen" only because he would never think a girl like her would fall for him, let alone marry.Hart and Gad most definitely have great on-screen chemistry.
There are 2 scenes in particular where I literally thought to myself "Have they just given up on this movie and are adding these scenes in because it looks like it would be an absolute blast to act?" Even the plot isn't new; it's a recycled theme and a movie with this plot comes out maybe once every couple of years.AND YET with all the terrible caricatures of people (and women in particular) I actually found myself laughing out loud (literally) in the cinema on more than one occasion.
None of the laughs seemed forced, and don't get me wrong it wasn't perfect, but it did give me enjoyment for an hour and a half.Kevin Harts best movie without doubt, much better than Get Hard..
Kevin Hart plays the "Have great speech for hire Best Man" who knows how to impress a groom's newlywed wife and mother-in-law since everyone knows a wedding is always focused on the bride and the bride's mother.
Apparently 5 years if enough for Hollywood to think they can get away with basically copy-pasting a plot from another movie (look up "I Love You, Man").You know what they say down there, if you stumble unto something good you should be able to get away with reusing it at least 3 or 4 times.Problem is, it wasn't all that good to begin with.
As you've seen from the Synopsis , this movie is about a loner guy named Doug who needs a best man and 7 groomsmen for his wedding .So Jimmy comes to the rescue.
The reason this film works is down to the two very likable leads - Gad as Doug & Hart as Jimmy/Bic. They have very different comedic sensibilities, but work great together on screen - I feel this is the first time we're seeing each of them begin to reach their potential.
Some great set pieces - meeting the family for the first time, the gridiron match, the Bucks Party, the dance-prep - which let all the cast play a part.I really enjoyed this and have to give it a good rating because the film did precisely what a comedy sets out to do - make you laugh!
Kevin Hart and Josh Gad on the other hand looked like they were in separate movies.
The Wedding Ringer(2015) Starring: Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco, Affion Crockett, Jorge Garcia, Corey Holcomb, Ken Howard, Cloris Leachman, Jenifer Lewis, Mimi Rogers, Aaron Takahashi, Olivia Thirlby, and Nicky Whelan Directed By: Jeremy Garelick Review He's the best man...
The Film is about Jimmy who provides best man services for socially challenged guys, who – for whatever reason – have no one close enough to agree to stand by them on the day of their wedding.
Last year was Ride Along which also starred Kevin Hart and now we have The Wedding Ringer, which you should already know is not funny.
Hart and Gad have a good chemistry, a bromance as you can see in the dance sequence in that wedding they attend to observe a terrible best man speech.
In conclusion I would recommend seeing the film only if you don't have anything better to watch at the moment or if you really likes Kevin Hart's acting.Final score: 5/10..
This was hands-down a 10/10, and not just for the laughs!Believe it or not, Kevin Hart actually does some pretty great acting in this movie, and I hope to see more like it out of him in future movies.
But the cast overall, especially the crew that works with Kevin Hart's character in the movie, is so incredibly lovable and memorable that you'll wish you knew a group like that in real life.
The story line sweet and simple which makes very little room for too many 'twists', hence there was only one twist towards the end of the movie, which is rather funny and sad at the same time.Overall I'm happy with this movie and would watch it again as it made me laugh but not hard enough.
I'm not gonna spoil anything, but the movie steals badly from better movies like Wedding Crashers, Old School and even Usual Suspects and this just came off as bad to me and desperate.Kevin Hart is funny as hell in this one and Josh Gad delivers, but eventually you just realize the Wedding Ringer is just another mediocre, bland and generic comedy..
Still, there are some very funny moments courtesy of Hart and Gad, and my guess is most viewers will enjoy a few laughs, even if they forget most of this once they leave the theatre.Supporting work is provided by Ken Howard, an on-fire Cloris Leachman, Mimi Rogers, Jorge Garcia and Josh Peck.
Jeremy Garelick directs "The Wedding Ringer", a comedy film that centers about Jimmy Callahan (Kevin Hart) who provides best man services for soon to be grooms who don't have friends necessary for a wedding.
Perhaps I should start at the beginning.The main and stand out stars of the film are Josh Gad and Kevin Hart.
'THE WEDDING RINGER': Three and a Half Stars (Out of Five)Romantic comedy/Buddy flick about a 'professional best man', who provides his 'special services' to socially awkward grooms in need.
The movie is reminiscent of other, similar, romantic comedy/buddy films (like 'I LOVE YOU, MAN' and 'HITCH', most obviously) but it's also pretty funny, and somewhat touching, in places.Gad plays a groom-to-be, named Doug Harris, who can't believe he got a really hot girl, named Gretchen Palmer (Cuoco-Sweeting), to agree to marry him.
I'd definitely say it's funny enough to recommend; especially if you like Hart, Gad and romantic comedy/buddy flicks.Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5es95jIdgR4.
The Wedding RingerThe Wedding Ringer has all the clichéd recipe in it; from characters to the plot or from jokes to emotions, having said that it also has funny moments and has a great music and Kevin Hart..
When Doug (Josh Gad), a groom-to-be is pressed to find a 'Best Man', he eagerly hires Jimmy (Kevin Hart), a false friend to fill the void.1.
The Wedding Ringer starring Kevin Hard, and Josh Gad. The film starts out with Doug Harris (Gad) having a problem.
As pointed out, the film delivers what one would expect and is better due to the odd yet good pairing of Kevin Hart and Josh Gad. Although it is somewhat predictable, the humor and comedic jokes do deliver.
Josh gad plays the groom and he has very good chemistry with hart that really carries the film.
But this film doesn't start with him, it starts with Doug(Josh Gad) about to marry the girl of his dreams(Kayley Cuoco.) Problem is, he isn't too social, and in fact, has no groomsmen or even a best man.
The wedding coordinator Edmundo recommends Jimmy Callahan (Kevin Hart) who specializes in playing the best friend role.This starts at a similar place as 'I Love You, Man' but it goes off on a different and dumber route.
"The Wedding Ringer" shows Kevin Hart seemingly getting better with each movie..
That's the case with "The Wedding Ringer" (R, 1:41).In his first film of 2015, Hart plays Jimmy Callahan, a best man for rent.
It is funny, have good characters (Kevin Hart made me laugh from the very beginning of the movie), the plot is new and original.
In "The Wedding Ringer," Kevin Hart plays an enterprising young man who hires himself out as a best man to grooms who can't come up with one of their own.
It's an above average comedy whether Kevin Hart movies are good or bad his scenes always seem to shine.
The Wedding Ringer is a comedy starring the genres most featured star right now Kevin Hart alongside Josh Gad. This movie has an premise that at first seems pretty interesting and does have the potential to be very funny if done right.
- 6.2After watching the film i would have loved this movie to focus more on Kevin Hart's character moving from wedding to wedding as oppose to focusing on just Josh Gad and his wedding.
Kevin Hart said before the release of the Wedding Ringer that the film was his best work yet and after watching it I agree with him.
The Wedding Ringer is what you get when to add I Love You, Man and Wedding Crashers and the result is a film that will likely headline the best comedies of 2015 and I think it beats Hart's other release in 2015, Get Hard..
. .Kevin Hart aka Jim does a stand up job at his role as a fake best man and Josh Gad aka Doug plays a believable nerd, who is desperate not to lose the women he 'loves.'One of the things that strikes me as odd about most of the negative reviews out there is they claim there is a lack of respect vibe going on and that there is a lot of crude humor.I'm sorry, but did you forget this is an R rate movie?
The Wedding Ringer (2015): Dir: Jeremy Garelick / Cast: Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Ken Howard, Cloris Leachman: Dreadful laugh-lacking comedy about being true to oneself, and if viewers were true to themselves, they would avoid the real ringer, which is this film.
Hart's character Jimmy is a "BEST FRIEND FOR HIRE" (some scenes show him doing speeches in different places making people laugh, smile or cry).
There were some funny parts but with a cast of Kevin Hart and Josh Gad we expected more.