Shotgun Wedding: an action comedy that shoots white (critic)

A furious air of already a lot seen breath on this action comedy, which Jennifer Lopez tries in vain to wake up.

Outing on video bonus in early 2023, the Rom-Com Shotgun Wedding Clearly arrives on television: appointment Sunday from 9:10 p.m. for (re) see on TF1. Is it worth a look? Here is the criticism of First.

A couple crisis (Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel) in the middle of a wedding ceremony in a little corner of paradise that will suddenly find the target of criminals. So much for the pitch of this action comedy signed Jason Moore, the director of joyfully pop Pitch Perfect but also Sisters where he had tried in vain to find the mojo of Paul Feig de My best friends Without ever being able to take advantage of the complicity between Amy Poehler and Tina Fey.

Its new long is unfortunately rather in its movement of the latter and it can be said, without spoiler great, that greater the twists and offs took place during its production phase, with the replacement of an Armie Hammer Suddenly blacklisted by Josh Duhamel a few days before the first Clap. For the rest, everything here – moments of humor as scenes of fighting and gunshot at all costs – follows a program which, for a hundred minutes, advances in automatic pilot.

Shotgun Wedding: shooting photos with Jennifer Lopez, Josh Duhamel and Lenny Kravitz

Is it effective? It would be to lie that pretending the opposite. And yet, we end up being bored firm in front of this festival of imposed figures (why should we still lock up the brilliant Jennifer Coolidge in her usual use, for example?) That even the presence of Lenny Kravitz (for his first appearance in the cinema Since The butler In 2013) and Jennifer Lopez’s efforts do not awaken, the difference in charisma between her and Josh Duhamel not being for nothing. A strong and balanced duo is always essential for this type of action comedy.

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Shotgun Wedding: At the start, it was Armie Hammer who was cast against Jennifer Lopez