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Wedding Daze (2007) DVD Review
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Wedding Daze (2007) Directed by:
Michael Ian Black
Wedding Daze (2007) Written by:
Michael Ian Black
Wedding Daze (2007) Cast:
Jason Biggs, Isla Fisher, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Consuelos, Chris Diamantopoulos
Wedding Daze (2007) Released by:
Not available at this time
Region:
1
Wedding Daze (2007) DVD Release Date:
15th January 2008
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Wedding Daze (2007) Synopsis:

When Anderson's (Biggs) girlfriend suffers a fatal coronary, he decides to take life by the horns and ask a woman he's just met to marry him. Katie (Fisher) is tired of playing it safe, so when Anderson asks her to marry him, she figures the time is right to take a leap before looking.

Wedding Daze (2007) DVD Review:

Wedding Daze, more commonly known as The Pleasure of Your Company, is the feature length directorial debut film from comedian/actor Michael Ian Black, most famous for his role on the his television series ED and his contributions to the VH1 series, I Love the 80s and 90s.

Anderson (Jason Biggs, American Pie series) has the perfect life. He has a great job, a great apartment and he is madly in love with the perfect girl. That is, until she drops dead in response to his wedding proposal. Her death sends Anderson on a grief stricken downward spiral for the next year. Eventually, his friend Ted convinces him to come to breakfast. While at the diner, Ted convinces Anderson to get back into the dating scene. Anderson, temporarily inspired by Ted’s rally speech, proposes to their waitress Katie (Isla Fisher, The Wedding Crashers, The Lookout), who, much to his surprise, eagerly accepts.

Now Anderson has a new fiancé who he knows nothing about, but who has even more emotional baggage than he does!

Wedding Daze, a.k.a. The Pleasure of Your Company, suffers from an identity crisis of sorts. First, it is being released on DVD as Wedding Daze, but is most commonly known as The Pleasure of Your Company. The title it was released under over seas has yet another alias, The Next Girl I See. Its identity crisis does not end there; Wedding Daze wants desperately to be a romantic comedy, and it almost passes as one, but it spirals out of control in the last half of the film.

The film starts off as a cute and light romantic comedy about a boy who has lost love and in a moment of whimsy proposes to a complete stranger. It is a humorous and fresh new concept for a film. The only problem is that the filmmakers seem to want to throw in every film cliché and off-the-wall single-note joke that they can come up with. Some of these jokes include Anderson’s overly sexually liberated parents who at one point are watching a live lesbian show in their living room, as well as Katie’s ex-boyfriend, who is ambiguously gay, finding love in the arms of his arresting officer after attacking Anderson in a rest stop. The hits just keep on coming as we are forced to endure two of the most unconvincing characters in Katie’s best friends, a pair of would be circus performers.

This film is a disappointment. It has a strong cast with Jason Biggs and Isla Fisher in the leading roles, as well as Joe Pantoliano and Edward Herrmann. It is a shame that things went so far south toward the end of the film, it would have been nice to see Jason Biggs in a lead role where he does not have to have sex with a dessert.

Wedding Daze was released in the United Kingdom and was scheduled to have a theatrical release in the United States in August of 2007, but ultimately, did not. Instead, the film is to become a sad, direct-to-DVD release.

The DVD release is pretty bare-bone. The special features include an alternate scene, and two deleted scenes. The film is presented in Widescreen and in 5.1 surround sound.

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Wedding Daze (2007) DVD review written by: Andrew Mattson

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