Kimberly Williams is back as daughter Annie, and George Newbern is her husband Bryan (ie the groom who as a moon-faced youth gave Steve Martin such grief originally) and he is joining the Zoom call from his office - thus explaining why the couple are not together. Nancy Meyers clearly isn’t ready for that. This movie special is a charity fundraiser, very like Richard Curtis’s Red Nose Day Actually (or Love Actually 2) in 2017, and the charity rationale is perhaps an alibi for the lack of real gags although Curtis did challenge heteronormative assumptions with a same-sex wedding. It’s hard to watch Culkin tearing up, when we last saw him ecstatically masturbating against the window in his corner office, turned on by money and power.Īnd who is Matty’s father-in-law to be? Well, it’s a humungous A-lister cameo, and it would be unsporting to reveal this to people who have still to watch, but the face of this legendary star is just as weirdly pasty and video-bland as everyone else’s here. It’s just so weird to see Culkin in this sudsy, cutesy role, as he now brings his dark Succession energy with him his renown as the aggressively dysfunctional media-dynasty princeling from the smash-hit HBO TV show basically dwarfs everything in the sugary FOTB franchise. So Steve Martin gets to be father of the groom! Matty springs this on his dad then and there, and Martin’s face becomes immobile with shock, so that everyone thinks his screen must have frozen - a joke Meyers appears to have pinched from the Tina Fey/Amy Poehler film Sisters. The Banks family here reunite for a Zoom call - yes, sadly, it’s nothing more ingenious and original than that - so that Matty can get hitched live to his fiancée in a surprise socially distanced wedding in front of all his family. To combat Covid depression, Nancy Meyers is injecting schmaltz like President Trump with bleach. The answer to Matty’s question is of course yes. This is the special online quasi-threequel to the first two feelgood movies, written and directed by Nancy Meyers, and based on the original 1950 film with Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor. “W hat are we, the schmaltz family?” asks Matty, played by Kieran Culkin, the now grownup son of Steve Martin’s George and Diane Keaton’s Nina in Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish).
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