My Best Friend's Wedding

Star Rating: ****

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Staring:

Julianne...Julia Roberts

Michael...Dermont Mulroney

Kimmy...Cameron Diaz

George...Rupert Everett

Walter...Philip Bosco

Have I been going to easy on movies lately? Most of my more recent movie reviews have gotten four stars (with the exclusion of Batman and Robin). Anyway this movie is truly a good funny and somewhat emotional.

What would you do if your best friend told you that if your not married by the time your 28, he'd marry you but then just as your about to turn 28 he pops the question-to someone else? It takes this event to make Julianne realize that she's in love with her best friend, Michael and she can't possibly let him get married to someone else. Julianne decides the only way to do this is by coming up with crazy schemes to make Michael and his soon-to-be wife, Kimmy break up.

Kimmy played by Diaz, is an all too perfect twenty-year-old who's willing to sacrifice everything just to be with Michael. Even if everything means throwing away her dreams of graduating college and going onto become an architect. Kimmy's willingness to cater to Michael's every want and need makes it even more difficult for Julianne to work out her plan. Julianne tries to get Kimmy to convince her father that Michael should work as a PR for her father rather then as a traveling sports reporter who gets paid little and gets about the same amount of respect. But being a sports writer is what Michael enjoys doing. Julianne manages to convince Michael that Kimmy and her father, Walter, don't think that his job is good enough for their family. Even when Michael is threatening to leave her Kimmy breaks down in a weepy "I want you, I need you" speech claiming she'd never say such a horrible thing.

On to Julianne's new plan. Jealousy. When her editor comes to Chicago for a quick visit to help Julianne with her plan, Julianne pretends that she's engaged to George. George, who's played by Rupert Everett who turns in a hilarious performance pretending to be Julianne's boyfriend. He definitely had some of the funniest scenes in the movie. Like when Kimmy's mother asks he and Julianne met he tells everyone that they met in a mental institution which eventually leads the whole Wallace family in a chorus which kept me laughing.

The movie didn't quite end as I would have wished it too, but it's still happy (and funny). As my father said after the movie, "If you can laugh and cry at the same movie then it's a success."

Other Movies With Cameron Diaz:

There's Something About Mary

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