Wednesday 14 December 2011

Our Family Wedding (2010) 7/10

Starring : America Ferrera, Forest Whitaker, Carlos Mencia, Lance Gross
Director : Rick Famuyima
Running Time : 104 mins

Lucia Ramirez (Ferrera) and Marcus Boyd (Gross) have never met each other’s parents, so when they come home from college and announce that they are engaged to be married, their respective fathers – Brad (Whitaker) and Miguel (Mencia) – are less than happy, especially when they recognise each other from an incident earlier in the day, and they both do their best to put an end to their relationship.

This comedy is filled with racially-motivated humour, and most of the anger of the two fathers seems to come from their black and Hispanic backgrounds which does at times get in the way of the rest of the comedy. But, once you get past this, there are multiple levels of humour throughout the film and, even though a lot of the jokes are initially based on race, the characters aren’t necessarily racial stereotypes. This may not be the best, but it’s worth giving a go.

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