Save the Wedding

This movie is a bad attempt. While watching I wondered if the actors and crew knew what a disaster they were creating. It seemed like an amateur project with actors who are still in training. We learn from our mistakes and the actors and staff have a lot to learn.

Blame this on Jake Helgren - he wrote and directed this film. It is the "Plan 9 from Outer Space" of Hallmark movies and Helgren is its Ed Wood.

Almost every scene involves characters who stand in one spot, unmoving, with their arms pressed against their sides as they talk. The result is a movie that doesn't "move;" which contributes to the coma that the viewers slip into. It is terrible DIRECTING. Incredibly amateurish.

And Helgren's screenplay? The bride is a shallow neurotic fragile woman who is unlikable and whom no man would want to be married to. The romantic leads (Best Man and Maid of Honor) have no chemistry, and even worse, have no personality. Their dialogue simply moves the story forward but is boring to listen to. The change of heart by the bride, which saves the wedding, is based on a stupid idea and simply lacks any authenticity or believability.

This movie didn't deliver either of the two essential virtues of a Hallmark film -it had characters that we didn't care about and there was no sense of "fun" as the film progressed through its predictable plot. I don't recall a single scene that had any emotional power - no joy, no sense of romance or happiness or anything.

I gave it 2 stars because the scenes were well lit.

Several of the recent summer movies have been poor, but this is truly awful. The writing is junior high level at best and the acting is bottom of the barrel. Who on earth thought this should be televised????

Probably the most insipid, inane and imbecilic tv movie Hallmark has ever produced.

The script sounds as if it were written by a bunch of 13-year old girls at a sleepover. And they agreed to direct it themselves by consensus.

For all you saying omg hallmarks lost their mind and has gone bad, this is NOT hallmark! This is showing on Hallmark in August 2021 as an acquired movie that was made by another company that is NOT Hallmark! Get your facts together before you automatically assume its Hallmark. Gee whiz. Everyone just automatically assumes what they think is right.