Set in the 1980's, 'The Wedding Singer' centers on two main characters: Robbie Hart (played by Adam Sandler) and Julia Sullivan (Drew Barrymore). It begins with Robbie singing at a wedding where he meets the new waitress Julia and informs her that he is getting married in a week to his fiance Linda. Robbie is totally crushed on his big day when Linda fails to show and he is left "standing at the Altar".
A week later he returns to work to sing at a wedding but, unfortunately due to his broken heart, is transformed into the worst wedding singer with hilarious consequences. Julia, who is also working at the wedding, somehow manages to convince Robbie to help her plan her own impending wedding to her fiance Glen (who we find out is a major "player").
What follows is a series of events, some quite funny, culminating with the two main characters falling in love with each other, but when Julie mistakenly thinks Robbie and Linda have reunited, she moves the wedding date up deciding to elope to Las Vegas with Glen. Robbie finds out about this and rushes to the airport to catch a plane to Vegas to try to find Julia and stop her making the biggest mistake. Amazing Julia and Glen are on the same flight, creating some hilarious moments as Robbie, with the help of some fellow passengers and flight crew, attempts to win Julia away from Glen.
Not being a huge fan of 'romcoms', I watched this with some reservation, but found myself drawn back to my teenage years through the clever use of fashions, icons such as the rubix cube and "brand new" cd player and a truly fantastic soundtrack of 80's hit songs such as: Blue Monday by New Order, White Wedding by Billy Idol, Hold Me Now by The Thompson Twins and Love My Way by The Psychedelic Furs.
Anyone who grew up or spent their best years in the 80's will love this movie and find themselves reminiscing the whole way through.
All-in-all a totally fantastic movie and well worth the time. 9/10
Review by antonetheboneBlockedParent2014-08-16T23:37:42Z
Set in the 1980's, 'The Wedding Singer' centers on two main characters: Robbie Hart (played by Adam Sandler) and Julia Sullivan (Drew Barrymore). It begins with Robbie singing at a wedding where he meets the new waitress Julia and informs her that he is getting married in a week to his fiance Linda. Robbie is totally crushed on his big day when Linda fails to show and he is left "standing at the Altar".
A week later he returns to work to sing at a wedding but, unfortunately due to his broken heart, is transformed into the worst wedding singer with hilarious consequences. Julia, who is also working at the wedding, somehow manages to convince Robbie to help her plan her own impending wedding to her fiance Glen (who we find out is a major "player").
What follows is a series of events, some quite funny, culminating with the two main characters falling in love with each other, but when Julie mistakenly thinks Robbie and Linda have reunited, she moves the wedding date up deciding to elope to Las Vegas with Glen. Robbie finds out about this and rushes to the airport to catch a plane to Vegas to try to find Julia and stop her making the biggest mistake. Amazing Julia and Glen are on the same flight, creating some hilarious moments as Robbie, with the help of some fellow passengers and flight crew, attempts to win Julia away from Glen.
Not being a huge fan of 'romcoms', I watched this with some reservation, but found myself drawn back to my teenage years through the clever use of fashions, icons such as the rubix cube and "brand new" cd player and a truly fantastic soundtrack of 80's hit songs such as: Blue Monday by New Order, White Wedding by Billy Idol, Hold Me Now by The Thompson Twins and Love My Way by The Psychedelic Furs.
Anyone who grew up or spent their best years in the 80's will love this movie and find themselves reminiscing the whole way through.
All-in-all a totally fantastic movie and well worth the time. 9/10