Eat, Drink & Be Married

This felt a little too much like Don Quixote to me. Both the warehouse and the wedding. None of it makes sense except possibly Billie's sentimental attachment to the warehouse. Saving this wedding is hopeless and senseless. Some of the ploys they try are silly. And what's coming is totally predictable.

The only thing that kept me going was Jocelyn Hudon. Billie is fun and energetic. This girl next door, Hudon, is far more than what you see on the surface. But she is not enough to carry the movie. She and Jake Foy have OK chemistry, but again, not enough. Among other things, it's too diluted by other things in the movie.

Billie is consulting with an engaged couple, Jess and Max, about their wedding. Jess is being a bit of a control freak in her strive for perfection, and Max could care less. She even has a diagram of the exact dimensions of the flower vases she wants. Right away I'm on Team Max. After the meeting they decide (rightly) to take a break. When Max's brother hears about it, he storms in to Billie's place guns a blazing (figuratively). He blames Billie for the break up because she was the last person the couple talked to. Meanwhile Billie learns that the beloved old building that her family had had her business in is being sold after being in her family for 3 generations. Which begs the first question. How could her beloved building be sold? Don't they own it? If not, why not? Seems a little lame. Anyway, Charlie enlists Billie to save the wedding, and in return, he will save the building because he's in real estate. And his Uncle's company is the one that is going to tear down the building and put up a parking lot. (literally). Everything goes as expected from there, including Charlie being unsuccessful in handling his end of the bargain. By the end of this, I was left with more than several nagging questions.

She makes a living how though? Takes old after wedding detritus and gives it to charity? I must have missed something? I guess she's also a wedding planner? Are weddings the only event that has left over flowers, decorations and food? (Might has a problem with the health department there, though) and what charity needs flowers? I'm sure this was addressed, but I missed it, I guess.

What was with that cheesy speech Charlie made to Billie encouraging her to let her true self shine through because she is such a spectacular person and has no reason to be so closed off, insecure, and damaged. Huh? As far as I could see she was a cheerful, confident, successful, very together woman. I was very confused. This was after Billie broke it off with him due to his lying and deceit. Was he trying to gaslight her into thinking it was her fault?

Why didn't Charlie help Billie with her presentation to the committee-who-decides-what-buildings-to-protect-from-mean-developers after sending an email giving her the advice to apply for protection? He wasn't doing anything else after quitting his job. Why not pitch in with a helping hand and get back on her good side?

Why should the committee save her warehouse despite the fact all were in agreement that the place held no historical value due to burning down in 1910? Even Billie? Because Billie loved it and lots of nice things happened there. Sounds like an investigation is in order especially since Jess was on the committee and didn't recuse herself.

Why did Billie wear a prom/bridesmaid floor-length formal to Jess's dressy-casual day-time wedding? Oooof.

Lastly, Joceyln Hudon, who played Billie, was robotic in her line delivery and it caused me to lose focus and interest. I might have even dozed off for a minute. Maybe this is why I didn't catch all of the subtleties in the plot. I was curious and looked up her resume and sure enough this is strike two for her, from me. She needs to do better, as do writers who wrote this thing.

The light, make-up, camera angles, clothes, colors of everything used, cutting of the scenes, everything looks very amateuristic and off. Makes you realize how much work and talent has been put into other movies where everything is just right but you never realized until you watched this one. I couldn't concentrate on the story but instead watched wrong hairstyles, wrong combinations of clothes, the unflattering way they are worn, almost got my first epilepsy attack from the strange cuts between scenes, bad acting and a mailpart that gave me the creeps because he didn't play an attractive guy but a serialkiller to be. You have to watch this. Find all the wrongs and have fun doing it. Notice the lead male role with two dark pieces of string hanging under his nose, strange shadows, the father with the last button of his vest unbuttoned (which is usually okay but not in this case) and mascara, the weird red hair that looks like a bad paint job. It is fun to watch, just keep pen and paper ready to find everything. I do realize everybody has to learn and that people that want to make movies have to start somewhere. I wish them all good luck and a steep learningcurve. An A+ for the effort and I think you all did your very best.

The movie was very forced. It seemed as if everyone was rushing from scene to scene. The female lead was good, but the script needed help causing all the actors to appear subpar. I don't know that a better script would help the acting of the male lead. It seems he would be better as a side friend, maybe. He was not at all convincing as a love interest. The clothing choices for the actors lacked as well. Unfortunately, the story was disjointed making large leaps in continuity, skipping over details that would have helped make the story somewhat enjoyable... if a different male lead had been cast.

First reasonable word for define it seems awful. For unrealism, for pathetic scenes, for relation between brothers and family relation in general, for the pink sweater of a red hair guy, for the end . Less for dog.

In fact, it is only a illustration , from many others, of Hallmark recipe. Not innovations, same solution for old building, same happy final and , more absurd, maybe, tensioned moment.

Silly and absurd in many scenes, it is only a film for fans of genre. The acting... Unfortunatelly, it has not the privilege to can be saved by supporting actors. So, for not use the too subjective awfull, silly film sounds acceptable.