Frozen star Josh Gad (Or ‘Budget Jonah Hill’, as I prefer) plays a guy who’s about to get married to his beautiful fiancé (Cuoco-Sweeting) but with ten days to go, he realises he has no friends, and therefore doesn’t have a best man or any groomsmen.
Wait, hang on.....Where have we heard of this plot before? In a much funnier film perhaps? Yes, 15 seconds into the trailer and already it’s plot is echoing that of I Love You, Man which no doubt is a much better film (I know The Wedding Ringer isn’t actually out yet, but the chances of it being better are minuscule) and more worth your time than this...Um....film? Can we really call it that?
Looking for a solution, Gad meets Kevin Hart, who pretends to be his best friend and assembles a group of groomsmen (Lots of people you don’t know and the fat guy from Lost) to be there at his wedding. But of course, they can’t just show up, and over those 10 days Gad must bond and form a lifelong friendship with these men, and does so in a different way to what he was expecting.
Kevin Hart did not have a very good 2014. Between this and Get Hard, he’s already not having a very good 2015, and neither of them are even out yet. The Wedding Ringer looks absolutely abysmal, with one amusing line in the entire trailer and the rest of being so dreadful you just want to turn it off. Man, comedy in 2015 is really not looking good.
The Wedding Ringer is out February 25th