Drunk Wedding

If you wish The Hangover had more of a found-footage feel — and no Bradley Cooper, and more bros getting peed on — here's an offbeat treat for you. You might not have heard of this one, and unless you happened to be at an Alamo Drafthouse this weekend, you probably haven't seen it. But if you're anyone I went to undergrad with, you absolutely should.

Paramount released Drunk Wedding direct to iTunes this weekend. I bought it, and I watched it, and I can report that while you may not know all of the actors and it won't get the usual blockbuster ad campaign, it's quite the tequila-soaked barrel of fun.

Just so we're on the same page here, Citizen Kane this is not. No. Drunk Wedding is a Gonzo faux-doc raunchy travelogue wedding comedy that takes its pants off early and often. It's dialed in tight and quite nicely paced, its modest 1:20 runtime a steady drumbeat of redband-worthy gags, pranks, and awww-shoot moments. Shooting on location in Nicaragua brings immediacy to the action, though the film is not without its issues in this regard: The found-footage style demands a certain gritty realism that doesn't always mesh well with the clearly quite decent cameras actually used here, and the cinematography occupies that strange reality/scripted middle ground that reminds me of an early dose of The Hills. (Nothing that a goat won't fix.) The writing is solid, at times laugh out loud hilarious, but set against the whole average-joes-filming-themselves trope it sometimes feels overwritten, too smart for its premise. (Too clever for your own good, Nick and Tony Weiss?) Interestingly, Drunk Wedding shares something in common with Take Me Home Tonight, another collegiate comedy I really liked: both languished on the shelf for a couple of years before their release.

Quibbles aside, Drunk Wedding is here now and delivers what you're crashing it for — some memorable characters (Dan Gill is terrific as Phil, Nick P. Ross is deliciously creepy as Linc aka Beavis incarnate, and Victoria Gold does a great job as the girls' girl bride Elissa), some quality pranking, and an almost but not quite home movie feel.

This is also the kind of movie you'll want all your friends to see, so your party-prone social circle has ready access to the bank of soon-to-be-iconic-at-least-to-us references. I will say though that if your "hey, this is just like the time" moments overlap very much with this film, your parties are off the flippin' chain, bro.

Haus Verdict: Loved it. Small on budget and big on raunch, Drunk Wedding is just what it sounds like — and if you're in the market for that, take a look.

This movie is fresh, different and extremely funny. It has been a long time the typical popcorn movies and the most hype titles did nothing for my laughter. This one antagonises all the preconceptions people bring to this style of filming. The plot is actually very realistic and extremely funny at the same time, nothing is exaggerated as most of these things most of us, who have interesting lives, saw happening or heard of in our circle of friends. Give the movie a chance and just absorb.e the beauty of those normal gals rather than the super worked Hollywood stars, the day-to-day banter between couples and the dramas people face when in relationships or running from these.

Yeah, the plot it's not big deal, and the camera shakes, but the humor is neat, dark, naughty, and shocking. With all that movies with stupid jokes, i'm very glad to have seen this masterpiece. Also i like the characters, they aren't that basic as might seem. The movie is basic, but if you like dark and stupid humor, this movie have a lot of that.

A wedding is a resort in Nicaragua is an excuse for debauchery. Drink and sex. That is not going to turn out well!

Phil thinks that it would be great if everyone could record the goings on when his wife's sister gets married.

There is nothing pseudo-intellectual to say Drunk Wedding is a bad movie. It is inspired by the found footage type films.

It is plotless and witless. The director thinks that some silly raunchy behaviour could pass off as a comedy.

One scene includes a man urinating on another man as he lies on the bed.

The story has all the coherence of a mess left behind by projectile vomiting.

Who is the the 14 year old virgin who wrote this rubbish?? The actors are awful, their characters are just horrible and it's beyond cringy. Grown men giggling at the sight of each others privates is supposed to be funny NOT funny at all not even one bit. This film is nothing but trash do not watch.