Just looking at the cast for this movie, I knew it was going to be a winner. It was full of classic favorites for everyone.

Now being a little bias, due to being both a girl and in the process of planning my own wedding, I really did enjoy this movie.

It was everything:

• Funny
• Witty
• Interesting
• A little action
• A good date movie

Summary:

This movie is obviously about a wedding, but the dynamic is pure wit. This modern family is trying to make it through a chaotic weekend of drama and dysfunctional family relationships.

It starts out with the Ellie (Diane Keaton) arriving to her old home, which now belongs to ex-husband Don (Robert De Niro). She is greeted with a very awkward situation between Don and his current girlfriend, Bebe (Susan Sarandon), of them about to do the nasty on the kitchen counter.

Things start off with a bang there, but becomes even more dynamic when the rest of the family is introduced.

Don and Ellie’s daughter Lyla (Katherine Heigl) enters a hospital looking for her brother Jared (Topher Grace). While looking for him, she waits in the maternity ward and passes out from anxiety with all the children around.

Jared, come to find out, is a 29-year-old virgin doctor who all the nurses are dying to deflower, and Lyla is an uptight lawyer who recently broke off a serious relationship due to the fact she is unable to have kids.

There is one more child to introduce to Don and Ellie’s family, Alejandro. He was adopted by Don and Ellie as a child and is the groom-to-be. He and his fiance Missy (Amanda Seyfried) have very different families and lifestyles and trying to accommodate all those wants and needs from the families into one wedding gets to be very overwhelming.

Not to mention that Alejandro’s birth mother and sister from Colombia are attending the wedding as well.

This sends the entire wedding into a tailspin because Alejandro has been lying to his birth mother for years that his adopted parents were still married, which they obviously are not, because she believes it to be the epitome of sin in her Catholic faith.

So Alejandro is caught in the middle to protect his image with his birth mom or with Bebe who has been a large part of his life. Of course this is a movie, so they go with the more complicated choice and go with a large charade to protect their image.

This romantic comedy was a hit with me. I loved the actors and actresses so much because they fit their role so well either that or I’d think they were possibly type-casted. Even if they were, this film kept my attention with the witty and yet a little raunchy humor throughout, and that alone makes a movie so much more enjoyable to sit through.

I give this movie a four out of five stars because of the cast, content and humor and recommend this movie to you if you like to laugh and enjoy the classic the resurfacing of classic comedians like Robin Williams as much as I do.