Perhaps I was just in a bad mood. Or maybe I had been forced into that mood by the bland lameness that had already permeated
"The Wedding Planner." But there was a point in this film when I actually began talking to the screen, which I never do. (The theater was nearly empty, by the way, so don't worry about my bothering other patrons.) It was at the point when the title character, the cute but unlucky-at-love Mary (Jennifer Lopez), was visiting a possible site for an upcoming wedding with the bride- and groom-to-be. She already fell in love with the groom, you see; once she found out he was engaged (and a client!), she got real pouty and spiteful. As fate would have it, the ridiculous Italian stereotype that her aging father has convinced to marry her shows up on the scene, announcing that Mary is his fiancee (even though Mary very clearly told him "no" ages ago). The groom-to-be whom Mary has the hots for is quite interested to know this, of course, since he got a stern talking-to from her when she found out HE was engaged. Quite a hypocrite, this Mary! Quite a temptress and a harlot indeed! And imagine the wackiness that will ensue when the man Mary is in love with thinks she's engaged when really she's not! Everyone will start treating the Italian guy like her fiance! Such comedy!
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