THE WEDDING SINGER |
| 1. The beginning The sun sets on a boxy UCI in the northern reaches of Derby. The CHESHIRE CAT'S GIRLFRIEND heads back to the car with the CHESHIRE CAT in tow. CHESHIRE CAT'S GIRLFRIEND So..? CHESHIRE CAT It was quite good. CHESHIRE CAT'S GIRLFRIEND Told you. And she was right. This film is good. 2. The Reasoning The film follows the standard nice guy and nice girl meet and fall in love, dumping their current partners' romantic-comedy, but there is a little more here - the setting. The setting for the film is not so much a place (bog standard small town America as it happens) - it is a time - the 80's in all their blue eye shadow and pink lipsticked glory. It does not, however, dwell too much on the past and uses it only as a backdrop for entertaining set pieces, funny gags and piquant observations on life and love. It is a cracking film. As another positive note it seems as if the majority of the songs and soundtrack are British in origin, which shows that the film is a true reflection of the 80's not Hollywood's normal Americanised version. 3. The Moan at the End It would make an interesting difference if in one of these 'nice guy and nice girl meet and fall in love, dumping their current partners' had current partners who were likeable. The two in The Wedding Singer are vile pieces of humanity, and the audience can really despise them. It would be way too realistic to see the dumped partners as real people who get hurt and shat upon when this sort of thing happens. |