Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates Review

<p>Full-fledged comedies have become a mixed bag in recent years&period; Either sacrificing character development or intelligence or just jokes in general&comma; modern comedy never seems to strike a balance between the three&period; 2014&&num;8217&semi;s <i>What We Do In The Shadows <&sol;i>seems to be the bar that I&&num;8217&semi;ve set a comedy to live up to &lpar;high expectations&comma; I know&rpar;&comma; but mildly humorous just doesn&&num;8217&semi;t cut it anymore&period; Hollywood has become so desperate as to take actors from critically beloved TV shows&comma; <i>Workaholics <&sol;i>and <i>Parks and Recreation<&sol;i> in this case&comma; to imbue a sense of actual hilarity within the mix and in the instance of <em>Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates<&sol;em>&comma; it mostly succeeds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;imdb&period;com&sol;name&sol;nm2796745&sol;&quest;ref&lowbar;&equals;tt&lowbar;cl&lowbar;t2">Adam DeVine<&sol;a>&comma; from the aforementioned <i>Workaholics&comma; <&sol;i>and <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;imdb&period;com&sol;name&sol;nm1374980&sol;&quest;ref&lowbar;&equals;tt&lowbar;cl&lowbar;t1">Zac Efron<&sol;a>&comma; from&&num;8230&semi;just about any movie with no discernable reason to exist&comma; star as Mike and Dave Stangle&period; Based on a true story&comma; these two men became a giant craze after their mildly humorous Craigslist post looking for dates to their sister&&num;8217&semi;s wedding&period; After being featured all over the internet and <i>The Wendy Williams Show <&sol;i>&lpar;as one so naturally would&rpar;&comma; they ended up selling their life story and someone thought it was a good idea for a comedy starring four attractive white people&period; Well&comma; they weren&&num;8217&semi;t entirely wrong&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Adding a tipi to your wedding venue choices offers a distinct and memorable setting that is sure to captivate any guest&period; Their spacious interiors are perfect for custom decorations and themed weddings&period; For more information on how to easily hire one&comma; visit <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;bareventsuk&period;com&sol;wedding-tipi-hire">https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;bareventsuk&period;com&sol;wedding-tipi-hire<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;110046" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-110046" style&equals;"width&colon; 1920px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-110046 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;07&sol;03123507&sol;Mike-and-Dave-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"&lpar;&lt&semi;em&gt&semi;Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates&lt&semi;&sol;em&gt&semi;&comma; 20th Century Fox&rpar;" width&equals;"1920" height&equals;"1358" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-110046" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates<&sol;em>&comma; 20th Century Fox&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Within the somewhat true story established in the film&comma; the Stangle brothers have been screwing up family celebrations for years and everyone has had enough&period; Their father gives them an ultimatum&colon; bring two respectable women to their little sister&&num;8217&semi;s wedding or be shunned for life&period; With a deep love for their sister in their hearts&comma; they agree and the Craigslist ad is introduced&period; In come <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;imdb&period;com&sol;name&sol;nm2201555&sol;&quest;ref&lowbar;&equals;tt&lowbar;cl&lowbar;t4">Aubrey Plaza<&sol;a> and <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;imdb&period;com&sol;name&sol;nm0447695&sol;&quest;ref&lowbar;&equals;tt&lowbar;cl&lowbar;t3">Anna Kendrick<&sol;a> to swoop on for a free vacation to Hawaii&period; Essentially the female versions of the brothers&comma; they must collectively get their acts together&period; This introductory stuff in the movie isn&&num;8217&semi;t particularly funny&period; What it ends up feeling like is a bunch of actors getting to grips with the tone of the material&period; Thankfully&comma; taking only 20 minutes to get everything in gear before we arrive on Hawaii&comma; the movie doesn&&num;8217&semi;t take long to get really fun&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Hawaii setting has been overdone within the last decade of Hollywood and it&&num;8217&semi;s not difficult to think of a funnier movie within that setting&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s a big surprise to find that it&&num;8217&semi;s never a big point of the film&comma; instead relying on the charms of the cast and script&period; Written by <em>Neighbors <&sol;em>scribes&comma; Andrew J&period; Cohen and Brendan O&&num;8217&semi;Brien&comma; they ended up crafting a template of a movie&period; Making sure there are enough moments that the actors can improvise the funniest stuff&comma; the writers made sure there are just enough set-pieces to make us not feel bored&period; Arguably&comma; these set-pieces are the worst part of the film&period; Between the misuse of <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;imdb&period;com&sol;name&sol;nm3529685&sol;&quest;ref&lowbar;&equals;tt&lowbar;cl&lowbar;t12">Kumail Nanjiani<&sol;a> as a massage therapist to an ATV sequence that has been heavily used in the trailer&comma; <em>Mike And Dave<&sol;em> stalls at these moments&period; With the lack of momentum&comma; there should be nowhere to go but down&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;110047" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-110047" style&equals;"width&colon; 1920px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-110047 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;07&sol;03123451&sol;Mike-and-Dave-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"&lpar;&lt&semi;em&gt&semi;Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates&lt&semi;&sol;em&gt&semi;&comma; 20th Century Fox&rpar;" width&equals;"1920" height&equals;"1365" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-110047" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates<&sol;em>&comma; 20th Century Fox&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The cast is the true savior of the movie&period; DeVine and Plaza really steal the show from the two established actors of the bunch&period; DeVine brings his signature eccentricities to the mix&comma; not unlike Kevin Hart&period; To say he&&num;8217&semi;s not like his character in his hit TV show would be a lie&comma; but he plays it so well that it almost doesn&&num;8217&semi;t matter&period; The character that is established makes sense and DeVine&&num;8217&semi;s sensibilities aren&&num;8217&semi;t too far off from that&period; On the other hand&comma; Plaza is fairly different from her shy character on <em>Parks and Recreation<&sol;em>&period; She still shares some of those traits &lpar;volatile&comma; emotionless&comma; lack of empathy&rpar; with this character&comma; but she&&num;8217&semi;s able to bring something altogether her own to this character&period; These are the most fleshed out people in the world&comma; but you believe what they do when they do it because it works for the established world&period; Efron and Kendrick don&&num;8217&semi;t fare nearly as well&period; Kendrick has the acting chops and is funny at times&comma; but she just can&&num;8217&semi;t catch up with the comedy veterans&period; She is game to do everything asked of her&comma; but I&&num;8217&semi;m not sure she has the same comedic sensibilities and timing that others would&period; And Efron just couldn&&num;8217&semi;t carry a movie if he tried&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates <&sol;em>is not the best directed film in the world&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s not even close to being among best made this year&comma; but damn is it funny&period; When things get into gear&comma; this movie can&&num;8217&semi;t be stopped&period; You could see it as a millennial <em>Wedding Crashers <&sol;em>&lpar;a movie they just so happen to namedrop&rpar; and you wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t be wrong&period; Never really original or particularly smart&comma; <em>Mike And Dave<&sol;em> is a fun&comma; stupid movie that is the perfect antidote to the serious stupidity in this tepid summer movie season&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;