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Worth watching once!

The film "Simple Wedding" treads a delicate line between humor and the portrayal of a cross-cultural relationship involving an Iranian girl from a traditional background and an American modern bisexual boy.

The attempt at humor feels fake and forced throughout, with the cast, unfortunately, struggling to deliver their best performances. Seems like everyone tries so hard to act Not Good!

Regrettably, the wedding scene stands out as a low point in the film. It comes across as painfully fake, marred by poorly written dialogue and subpar execution. The blame lies squarely on the shoulders of the writer, who seems to have fumbled the opportunity to create a compelling narrative.

Move tries so hard, so bad and so fake to include LGBT+.

The film does manage to capture the essence of Los Angeles' superficial culture, portraying it accurately from the opening scenes to the somewhat questionable "healer" moment. For those familiar with the city, the depiction resonates, but it may come off as exaggerated to those less acquainted.

In summary, "Simple Wedding" falls short of expectations. While attempting to navigate the complexities of cross-cultural relationships, it struggles to find an authentic balance between humor and substance. The wedding scene and the overall execution of the film leave much to be desired, overshadowing glimpses of the film's attempt to satirize Los Angeles' superficial culture.

The movie was fun to watch! I enjoyed watching it. It was well made.

A pleasant little film.

'A Simple Wedding', in all honesty, isn't that funny a production, it didn't make me laugh out loud once really. However, it's actually a sweet romance story rather than a flat out comedy.

Tara Grammy (Nousha) and Christopher O'Shea (Alex) have solid chemistry, none of their dialogue or anything feels awkward which is nice. Shohreh Aghdashloo, who I remember from TV's 'The Punisher', works ideally in her role as Ziba. The rest of the cast are well chosen, to be fair.

It's nothing special, but I found this film rather charming.

As a woman of Iranian background living in North America, I enjoyed the film. I also appreciate the enthusiasm and the effort that went into this film. However I can understand where the low rating possibly comes from.

You see lots of energy spent on correcting the misrepresentations about the true culture of Iranians. Nice effort to show what a typical middle class Iranian family is like these days, even in Iran (although you never get to see the latter due to the censorship of the theocratic Islamic government in Iran).

The film tries to tackle issues about gender equality, same-sex marriage, war, immigration baggage... I understand that fearing this may be their only chance, the screen/story writers tried to put so much in one feature film.

As a result, every topic is lightly touched on since there's no time to explore all these issues in depth.

Someone here mentioned that this film lacks the charm of My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Yes of course it does! My Big Fat Greek Wedding was focusing on mainly two issues with the objective of being a comedy: romance and culture clash. A Simple Wedding is too serious to be taken as a simple romantic comedy. It's so ambitious a project that it needs to be written as a novel in depth.

The Iranian diaspora is dealing with many issues such as recent immigration, being mistaken as Arabs, being judged as Muslims even though most of them don't practice Islam, pride of a 2600 year civilisation rich with humanity, love and poetry, and the shame of a current backward Islamic government, family culture rooted in tradition and conflict with modern life, having lived during a war and wanting peace.

The Iranian people are incredibly complex and difficult to represent, especially to the people of America whose sole idea of an Iranian is a clergy talking as Iranian government on tv.

I applaud the hard work and the ambirion that went to the making of this film. However I believe that it may not have been a great idea to bring all this baggage into this rom-com, if it was solely intended as such.

There would have been more success, in my opinion, if this film could have adhered to the simpler style of My Big Fat Greek Wedding (most people like simpler films just for entertainment). Then, for the more curious and intelligent viewer, offering an exploration series where each episode focuses on a different aspect of the Iranian culture. Now you're asking me who would want to watch that? Well, aren't there people watching series on Rome? Make Persia interesting and it will happen. Thanks.

This movie was nothing but a bunch of tropes thrown together. The writing was awful. None of the jokes landed. I was excited to see it because of the cast. Maz Jobrani and Shohreh Aghdashloo are terrific and hilarious when given even half decent material.

All the charm and cultural aspects of My Big Fat Greek Wedding was missing in this movie. Nothing in this movie other than a few scenes where the characters speak Persian had anything to do with Persian culture or humor. It was as if the writer was guessing what Iranian culture is supposed to be. I wanted to stop watching after about 30 minutes, but continued to watch in the hope that there would be one scene that made it worth my time. That moment never came. Avoid this film like the plague.