I know this is a low brow movie; I know the jokes are lame, and the humour is often offensive. I know it is formulaic, and the wedding theme has been done to death, but I couldn't help but like this movie. In spite of all its flaws, I enjoyed it and actually laughed many times throughout. I think its charm is due to the characters and their relationships to each other. These are people, albeit cartoonish people, who have a real love and affection for each other: the brothers have a strong connection and they deeply love their little sister, who is a wonderfully fresh personality, and her fiancé is a breath of fresh air in a genre full of clichés - a cautious, nerdy, introspective, good-hearted man who loves his wife- to-be more than anything in the world. The parents love their children despite their exasperation. There is lots of action and the actors play their parts with energy and affection for the characters - nobody is phoning it in. I would say the only weakness was with the wedding dates themselves, played by Aubrey Plaza, and Anna Kendrick. I'm lukewarm about both actresses and did not really like the characters they played - too mean and too stupid to be believed.
