Even if you go along with the plot – for fun, say – it’s hard to overlook the cinematic clichés, which come as fast and as furious as Nick and Kat’s romance.  (He fell in love with her from the minute her heard her voice.  Even if he’d never met her, he’d miss her. )  Kat never deals with her family problems (especially her cruel, narcissistic sister), which are miraculously solved at the end. Also annoying are the steady stream of pop music montages, the too-perfect vistas of England and the extreme wealth they all so obviously enjoy (despite much ado about Kat’s 401K). It’s truly a bizarre fantasy, and clearly, director Claire Kilner (“How to Deal”) is going after Messing’s core audience (mostly homosexual males) from the NBC sitcom, “Will & Grace.” How else to explain so many lingering shots of Mulroney in the nude, Messing’s neurotic character (a curious mirror of the one she plays on her show) and the overarching message that heterosexual relationships are fundamentally dishonest? 

I’m a pretty easy sell when it comes to romantic comedies. Give me good characters, snappy dialogue and some acting, and I’ll enjoy it. After all, at the end of the rainbow, I believe, is love. But this film, despite solid performances from the cast (save Mulroney, who is appallingly boring), just doesn’t do the trick. So my prediction for this “Wedding Date” is one very limited engagement.

AUDIENCE:  Adults Only

OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT:

• Drugs/Alcohol Content:   Constant drinking and smoking throughout the film, including several scenes in bar; in one scene all the characters get drunk and carouse wildly.
• Language/Profanity:  Less than a dozen obscenities (including several British ones, such as “bugger”) and a few profanities.
• Sexual Content/Nudity:  Multiple nude shots of male character from rear and side, both in and out of shower, including him dropping his underwear on floor; several partially nude shots of female character during sex scene, including her disrobing and seducing man; one sex scene; several kissing scenes; strippers arrive at a bachelor’s party, where men suck on the breasts of a nude ice sculpture; various conversations throughout film about characters sleeping with one another and sexual infidelities.
• Violence:   Characters argue, chase after one another and, in one scene, one man tries to hit another (for sleeping with his fiancé); various physical comedy falls and bumps.