The Wedding Singer (1998)

The Wedding Singer (1998)

 

6/10

 

Starring

Adam Sandler

Drew Barrymore

Christine Taylor

 

Directed by Frank Coraci

 

Contains Spoilers

Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore made a good onscreen pairing in this movie. The Wedding Singer is about a man who had his heart ripped out in front of all his friends and later falls madly in love with another lady who he is supposed to help plan a wedding for.

The movie is fun, and I did enjoy seeing it again because I have fun memories of watching it when I was much younger. Seeing it now, even though the nostalgia had me, I do believe this movie is an okay comedy, but the script lacked the total conviction needed to push it over the top.

The romance that started between Robbie (Adam Sandler) and Julia (Drew Barrymore) came out of nowhere and from a situation that seems too impossible to occur. Julia had to get help from another man who is suffering from heartbreak to plan a wedding, which he himself could not have. That seemed very insensitive of Julia to ask, but the movie found a way to make it work. They did this by making Glenn (Julia’s fiancé) a jerk. The movie made up for the sappy romantic pairing by indirectly saying she was going to be unhappy anyway, so Robbie came to save the day.

The plot is about a wedding singer, Robbie, who gets left at the altar by his supposed-to-be wife. Robbie and his friends are the only ones in town who do wedding gigs. It was at a wedding gig, before his own catastrophe, that Robbie meets Julia (who waits tables at weddings). They start a friendship, promising to help each other with their own weddings. Julia was there at Robbie’s wedding as a waitress when he gets left. Robbie is in a spiral, losing his mind when he gets an invitation to Julia’s engagement party. He goes, and his friendship with Julia grows. When Glenn proposes to Julia, a wedding needs to be planned for the new couple in town. Julia asks Robbie to help with the planning, to which he agrees. Soon, the time the two spent together blossoms their friendship into love. To help along the way, Glenn turns out to be a womanizer, so Robbie trying to snatch his girl was, in this movie’s way, justified.

In the end, The Wedding Singer is one of those movies from Adam Sandler’s past that I will always fondly remember as one of his bests. Even though it doesn’t quite cut it now in comparison to the wonderful comedies of the 90s, it still holds up in my head as one of the cool movies I saw back then.