Confetti Details

Hilarious example of Brit Comedy at it's best!

The film is about 3 couples who are battling it out for the most original wedding of the year. Filmed in a documentary style and with a completely improvsised dialogue, this movie is absolutely hilarious.

The film, aside from being hilarious, really touched on some serious topics connected with relationships and especially marriage...the interfering 'good intentioned' family, jealousy, public perceptions of the norm...most of all the film reinforced what is important.

I was in two-minds about this film, I hadn't been convinced by the trailers I had seen and the reviews I had read hadn't convinced me. In all honesty if the tickets for tonight hadn't been free I wouldn't have gone. However, I was pleasantly surprised. The story, despite it's documentary style, was believable, the acting credible and the fluency of the stories spot on! If you enjoy Brit comedy especially along the lines of The Office, Spaced and Shaun of the Dead then this is a definite film for you!

[Highly rated reviewer]

confetti - well, just as throw away anyway!!

I wanted so much to like this film. There are certainly parts when it is quite funny and some of the acting is quite wonderful, but I'd honestly say that the film as a whole is untidy, does not go anywhere and just falls away towards the end. I gave the film the benefit of the doubt first of all in saying that it was filmed as a mockumentary and was meant to look a bit shaky, but that does not really excuse the lame dialogue, awkward setpieces and inconsistent pace of the whole thing.

It's never a good thing about any film, when you see that some of the deleted scenes would have given the finished film a bit more colour and made one scene in particular make more sense. All of the couples play their part well, the wedding planners are particularly well portrayed, Jimmy Carr is woefully miscast but you feel this story could be edited down into a one hour christmas tv comedy filler with no loss to what narrative there is.

One last comment. With so much talent in front of camera and obviously behind as well, why is this film so lame? Sometimes we do comedy so well with high profile successes like Hot Fuzz and well executed productions like Imagine Me and You. But we also see films like this and Death at a Funeral make it into the cinema without a real discernment as to what cinema audiences want to see and hoping that the 'stars' on the cinema poster are enough to sway the undecided film-goer.

Not one I'd recommend personally but it's a hit or miss comedy.