It sets a bad taste in the mouth for the kind of dumb humor you dread coming, but the film never really stoops to those levels that often. There’s a hint of sweetness to it – a sort of I Love You, Man promise – that goes crashing to the floor along with Doug in a dud of an opening gag. The movie opens with Doug calling up old friends he hasn’t seen in years asking them to be his Best Man. Enter Josh Gad’s Doug Harris, who plans to marry Gretchen Palmer (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting in a role that will make fans of The Big Bang Theory enjoy the film ten times over by imagining Penny finally got her big break), but is coming up far short on the groomsmen part of the wedding. ![]() At varying levels of service, he attends rehearsal dinners, talks up the groom to family, and gives a big, emotional toast at the end of it all. ![]() Kevin Hart plays Jimmy Callahan, the self-described wedding ringer, who sells a sort of best-friend-for-hire service to friendless grooms. Unfortunately, on the other hand, I’d be hard pressed to argue that anyone walking out of the theater this weekend will remember it come the Spring. The movie, while entirely predictable and with the occasional questionably offensive joke, never becomes the broad, pandering slap-stick-a-thon its scant trailers make it out to be. Released in the January doldrums, backing Kevin Hart as its headline act and sticking by a title that sounds uncomfortably familiar to that other wedding movie from over a decade ago, not much was weighing in its favor. Actually, I should clarify that statement: I didn’t hate The Wedding Ringer.
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