You’re Cordially Invited (now streaming on Amazon Prime Video) lures us to Yet Another Goddamn Destination-Wedding Rom-Com with stars Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell, who go mano-a-mano in a love-hate-love-hate-love-hate plot that has to end on one of those notes,
This Prime Video rom-com is much funnier when its leads are flirting with disaster than it is when they're flirting with each other.
The wedding invites are in the mail and June 1 is around the corner, but Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell have just one little problem in their new Prime Video flick, You’re Cordially Invited: The venue they both separately reserved is overbooked.
Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon are rivals who crash each other's wedding parties in the unfunny Prime Video rom-com "You're Cordially Invited."
You're Cordially Invited is good for some laughs and has some surprising depth, but has so much going on that it struggles under the weight of it all.
Reese Witherspoon? Will Ferrell? Put these two together on screen and you’ve got all the makings for a comedy that emulates the same charm of an early 2000s flick—and that’s exactly what you can expect from their new film,
Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell have teamed up for You're Cordially Invited on Prime Video, an outrageous rom-com also featuring Geraldine Viswanathan, Jack McBrayer, Rory Scovel.
The most surprising thing about this by-the-numbers comedy, in fact, is that it comes to us from writer-director Nicholas Stoller. He updated Kermit & Co. so delightfully in “The Muppets,” tartly reconceived the revenge rom-com with “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” and scored on the small screen with both “Platonic” and the updated “Goosebumps.”
Weddings. What would romantic comedies do without them? Ideally they go wrong, producing maximal chaos; in You’re Cordially Invited, two do at once. It’s not just that the boutique venue on a private island is double-booked,
Stoller’s previous credits include Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Get Him to the Greek (2010) and the underrated Bad Neighbours (2014); his dialogue and instinct for familial malice are both razor-sharp. Witherspoon, in particular, delivers his zingers with the unerring aim of a screwball comedy heroine.
Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon's new rom-com, which has been described as "relentlessly vulgar", has dropped on Prime Video. You're Cordially Invited follows a father (Ferrell) who discovers that his daughter's wedding venue is double booked,