Considering this is written and directed by the same team who made Calendar Girls (Tim Firth and Nigel Cole), this wedding comedy ought to be funnier and more lively than it is.There is, however, a good idea at its centre.
Rufus Hound plays the difficult brother of Robert Webb, about to be married to Lucy Punch. He has the idea of wonkily filming the entire fraught proceedings, and the result is what we see throughout. Hound’s part is so silly that you can’t believe in his character and the jokes about wedding disasters make one yearn for Hugh Grant and Four Weddings and a Funeral.
There are compensations, largely in the shape of Harriet Walter as the bride’s mother and Miriam Margolyes as Grandma, raising a smile every time she’s on screen.
Otherwise, the world of this Cheshire-set marriage isn’t terribly well juxtaposed with that of the less classy groom, and the idea that the bride will eventually fall for our perpetually filming hero seems more than a little unlikely. Mild fun only.
