Are you with Reese Witherspoon or Will Ferrell? “You're Cordially Invited,” a new comedy directed by Nicholas Stoller, brings together two stars whose movie worlds are nearly as divided as wedding guests on separate sides of the aisle.
Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Neighbors, Bros) is one of Hollywood’s few reliable comedy directors, and though You’re Cordially Invited, which premieres Jan. 30 on Prime Video, won’t be remembered as his crowning clownish achievement,
If you ever should find yourself at a karaoke bar one night and happen to spot Reese Witherspoon or Will Ferrell nestled somewhere in a corner, there’s at least one song (in Will’s case two) that will cause them to grab the mic and happily storm the stage.
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."
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.”
Their characters deal with a major hitch as their family members get hitched in a consistently funny wedding comedy.
While Will Ferrell recalled that he once received an open invitation for an Indian wedding, Reese Witherspoon got a glimpse into one through Mira Nair's 2001 film Monsoon Wedding.
Synthetic as it all is, Nicholas Stoller’s romcom clears the watchability bar and hits an average yet amiable stride