Father of the Bride (1991)

The original 1950 Father of the Bride has been on my to-watch list for awhile now, but I caught the 1991 remake on television this morning. It's not a great film, but for a lazy Sunday at home with family, it was an adequate, sweet little film. Steve Martin is great as the stressed out father reluctant to let go of his daughter and the rest of the cast does fine as well.My only criticism is that the film sometimes borders on sappiness. There is a scene before the wedding day where Martin thinks about his daughter growing up and the montage, paired with the sentimental background music, feels a little too saccharine. However, the film never wanders dangerously into this territory and its sweeter moments usually feel genuine and earned.Father of the Bride is not great, but I would not call it cinematic junk food either. It's a cute, gentle comedy that I would recommend for a lazy Sunday or rainy afternoon.

George Banks is an ordinary man whose 21 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man she met in Rome, but George can't think of what life would be like without his daughter.His wife tries to make him happy for Annie's sake, but when the wedding takes place at their home and a bizarre wedding planner takes over the ceremony, George must try to handle the fact that people grow up, and move on...Any father with a daughter of a certain age, will take heed with this movie, because its simply so true, and Martin nails it as the titular character.All his worries and quandaries are true and are dealt with in a wonderful way, despite the film being wonderfully hilarious.There are the odd movies that lay on the schmaltz and sugar coat every aspect of the narrative, and you really don't mind them doing it, in fact, you hoped they would do it a little bit more, just to make it that little more heartwarming.The cast are fantastic, Martin in my opinion hasn't been this good since, and the whole film is just nice, funny, and heartwarming.You will want to ring your daughter after seeing this, just to let her know you love her.

it was one of the sweetest movies I watched. I watched two movies today, one was When Harry Met Sally and the other one was this movie. I like this way better than that, may be it is because the stories about family always touch me more than the stories about love. I knew both of these to movies from my text book"the American way", the chapter talks about the American family. I think the movie"When Harry Met Sally" is about the relationship between men and women, and this movie is about the relationship between father and daughter. Anyway, I do like this movie a lot, it was funny and warm. :) And the other thing I was glad about was, this movie doesn't have subtitle, but surprisingly I understood almost all.

i absolutely loved this movie,,very funny Martin Short, Bronson Pinchot , Steve Martin what more could you hope for,, the father,, George Banks finds out his little girl is getting married and proceeds to go off of the deep end, as i would to whenever mine gets married, he tries to cut corners . because it will cost 250 dollars a head for the wedding,, he meets his future son-in-law and very cautiously accepts him, there is lots and lots of comedy and slapstick in this one, especially the now infamous hot dog bun scene,, where he snapped, and lands himself in jail for causing a scene at the local grocery store,, i think they kinda overdid it just a little with putting in snow in L.A in winter,, because it never snows there anyway,, but all in all i really liked this movie, because it shows how a father feels when it' time to let go of his little girl.