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7/27/2020

Love Wedding Repeat (2020)

A man and woman meet for the first time and feel an instant connection, but have to say goodbye before any real move is made. More than a year later, they meet again at a wedding -- will it work out this time? Or, more accurately, will it work out in one of the "sliding doors" timelines the story explores?

This really wants to be wacky, but it's just annoying. None of the "bits" work at all: the non-Scottish boor in a kilt, the irksome chatterbox with an unrequited crush, the coked-up stalker -- they all seem to have been told to "wing it" and the result is shockingly flat. it doesn't help in the least that the couple for whom we're, presumably, supposed to be rooting is terribly dull.

A few cut scenes roll at the start of the credits and they were all funnier than what made it into the film -- that's by comparison, of course. They weren't funny by any sane metric.

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