Caffeinated Clint
Someone’s obviously caught “American Pie” a few years too late and decided both the smutty storyline and its fresh-faced star could easily be transferred into their script – which they consider to be equally amusing; crude and original. And if it were 1999, “Daze” might have even got the theatrical release its producers no doubt planned for.
Jason Biggs, Isla Fisher, Joe Pantoliano, Edward Herrman, Michael Weston, Margo Martindale, Mark Consuelos, Joanna Gleason
OK, here’s the pitch: An over-sexed old fart passes his “cock ring” down to his soon-to-be-married son – a dimish loser who has just proposed to a girl who served on him in a diner. Meantime, the boy’s mother watches a young couple have sex in the comfort of her own lounge room.
I’m thinking the question that followed was “Is Jason Biggs’ available?”
And then – funnily enough, the same question my wife turned to me and asked upon seeing his name in the credits – this would no doubt have been tacked onto the end of the abovesaid question “Does Jason Biggs have any value anymore?”.
Fair question. For about five minutes there, straight after “American Pie”, Biggs – or ‘Biggsy’ as he’s affectionately known – did seem to be climbing the ‘it boy’ poles … right up all those unfussy Britney-listening good girl virgins suddenly realised that Biggsy, Freddie Prinze Jr, Matthew Lillard and, well, whoever else was supposedly ‘hot’ from the world of teen comedies in the mid 90s, were pretty much one-trick pony’s – and without some good material, they’d all be naked.
Oh, suppose you want the plot?
On a lark, Anderson (Jason Biggs) asks a waitress, Katie (Isla Fisher), to marry him. To his complete shock, she accepts his proposal.
“Wedding Daze” is the result of someone not getting the ‘Biggsy isn’t ‘in’ anymore’ memo’.
Someone’s obviously caught “American Pie” a few years too late and decided both the smutty storyline and its fresh-faced star could easily be transferred into their script – which they consider to be equally amusing; crude and original. And if it were 1999, “Daze” might have even got the theatrical release its producers no doubt planned for.
Yes, it is no more – no less a cheap “American Pie” (With Edward Herrmann filling in for Eugene Levy) by way of one of the lesser Farrelly Brothers’ movies (maybe “Say it Isn’t So”?), but still “Wedding Daze” has its moments – for what it’s worth, Biggsy and Fisher make quite the cute couple; the supporting cast are all rather amusing and there’s a couple of scenes that’ll near have you rolling on the floor in laughter. There are probably not enough of those scenes to warrant a sequel, but still, a few laughs is a lot more than anyone watching a rom-com starring Jason Biggs in 2007 ever expects.
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Reviewer : Clint Morris
