Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play the sister and father of two brides fighting over the same venue in Nicholas Stoller's winning comedy.

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,

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."

Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon’s Prime Video movie seems destined to be a streaming hit. I’m not sure it should be.

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.”

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.

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,

Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell are an awkward couple in the new rom-com "You're Cordially Invited." Maybe they'd have been better off as friends?

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The seas may dry up and the mountains fall, but nothing will stop the surge of films about wedding disasters. Somewhere there will always be collapsing cakes,

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.

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,

Their characters deal with a major hitch as their family members get hitched in a consistently funny wedding comedy.