'The People We Hate at the Wedding' on Amazon Prime

Wow, who’s the hot guy there? Might watch just for him.

That's DL fave Allison Janney, R1.

Gosh, Allison J. must be the busiest woman in Hollywood right now. It felt like only yesterday I saw her in that action movie, Lou.

Does she have some deadly illness, and she tries to make as much money as possible before she's too ill to work?

OP here. I got through 15 minutes of this last night before turning it off.

I think there's enough LGB representation now that we're just ignoring bad LGB projects like the "Queer as Folk" reboot and this thing.

It was a snore. Woke and such a waste of a perfectly good Allison Janney. Kristin Bell is too stubby looking to be taken seriously, even playing the straight man in a comedy. Only watch as background noise while multi tasking. I recommend the six episode western, English. It's much better.

I love Allison Janney and god knows Dustin Milligan is beautiful - but this looks really bad.

Appropriate casting since Ben Platt is one of the people WE hate.

Indian guy is an ugo

I quite like it. Fun movie. The way the dinner rehearsal goes down is hilarious. The "threesome" is a funny scene as well.

Sort of spoiler. Ben Platt's real life boyfriend Noah Galvin is featured in the end credits in a Polaroid titled "true *heart*!" Aw.

True love? I thought they broke up. How embarrassing that it’s immortalized in this film as true love.

WTF is this? We know Ben can’t play straight, but why can’t he play gay? I thought Kristen was in her 50s at least, especially with all the desperate preventative plastic surgery, but shockingly she’s only 42. Yet, she’s supposed to be the younger sister, but the actress who supposed to be a few years older is 37. So far there’s no information why the 37 year old is getting married this late in life. I thought Alison was in her 70s, but she’s younger. Shockingly, Dustin is 37, but could pass for late 20s, that Canadian lifestyle preserves one so well I guess. Who put this together, why the British angle and the French husband. Also the diversity seems forced.

R10, they didn't break up.

It’s not great but it was entertaining enough. Has so much potential to be better, though, so disappointing.

Wait, why is leading actress Lizzy Caplan reduced to basically a cameo here?

I loved how Lezzy Caplan put on Kristen’s underwear for her.

Wait, this was based on a book by a gay author? If the movie was this bad, I can’t imagine how much worse the novel was.

Watched it and thought it was good. Not great but certainly not bad.

It was written by two frau sisters who are writers on Bob’s Burgers and Deadpool 3.

Kristen Bell always plays unlikable characters. I couldn't stand her whiny neediness in Bridesmaids.

I watched it last week when I was in bed with a flu.

I love a good romcom. This was not a good romcom.

The daddy in the three way scene was hot. So there was that.

It was not good.

It was ok? Kristen was basically playing a more pathetic version of Veronica Mars. But i think Allison, Kristen and Ben were believable as a dysfunctional family. The threesome scene made me laugh. Although i was baffled by Lizzy's role, it was so small that anyone could have played it.

Oh and Dustin Milligan constantly mentioning how hot Kristen was - talk about obnoxious.

Ben Platt is …. not good. In anything.

Was she whining because she wasn't in that movie, R19?

Ben Platt is uggggggly.

The problem with having unlikable characters, even if that’s the point, is that they are still unlikable. Who wants to watch a show or movie when you dislike so many people, especially when they don’t do a good job of explaining why the way they are.

Seems like AI could produce something better than this.

[quote] Kristen Bell always plays unlikable characters. I couldn't stand her whiny neediness in Bridesmaids.

Who did she play in Bridemaids?

Kristen Bell wasn't in Bridesmaids. Kristen Wiig and Jillian Bell were though.

Veronica Mars was likeable.

Also, isn't she a Disney Princess of some sort? I think she plays unlikeable to go against type.

Oh, I guess she was the Princess's sister, Anna, in Frozen, but still. Same exact drawing, different hair and dress.

OK I semi watched it while doing Sunday evening chores. IT SUCKS. But that Canadian guy is TRES MIGNON.

R31 or Kristen isn't that likable in real life. I think her appeal went down quite a bit once she started doing Dax's podcast.

I'm a bit late to the party but I watched this last night. There were a couple of laugh until you couldn't breath and your eyeballs popped out moments. It was ok. Everybody was good and it was a pretty good story. RT Critics gave it 31%.

"Is that a sausage in the water?"

Oof, some of those RT reviews are brutal.

[quote] “The People We Hate at the Wedding” will be all over your Prime Video home screen for the next few weeks – consider it not an invitation but hazardous waste signage

I may be in the minority, but I think Ben Platt is sexy. Sue me. And Dustin Mulligan is hot.

Allison Janney is an icon and I don't mind Kristen Bell.

I agree with R17, it wasn't great, but I liked it well enough. Well, not well enough to watch it again, that is.

I watched this last night and as others have said, it was so bad.

One of the things I always pick up on watching films is the casting of siblings. You have to believe these people know each other inside out, even if they don't look that similar. So much of it is unspoken and no verbalised. Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep in Marvin's Room, Toni Collette and Steve Carell in Little Miss Sunshine, Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer in Nope.

I do not believe Kirsten Bell, Ben Platt and the English mixed race woman ever met each other, let alone met their mother Alison Janney. Why is Kirsten Bell so much older than her older sister?

The rest was just shite. Written by someone who has never been to Britain. What kind of English professor can afford a flat like that in London? Julian Ovenden is very attractive but my god he was awful in this.