She’s dry and acerbic and pretty damn funny. Tatiana is…well…a slightly less slutty version of the character Aubrey Plaza just played in this year’s “Dirty Grandpa”. Alice is a nice and well-meaning girl who is not too bright and has become an alcoholic following being left at the alter in an, admittedly, hilariously harsh way.
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This is then seen by Tatiana (Aubrey Plaza) and Alice (Anna Kendrick), and these two ladies are the actual stars of the film…so much so that you wish the movie was just about them and ignored Mike and Dave entirely. Being idiots, the brothers post an ad on Craigslist, which garners a lot of attention and gets them on TV. So their parents, mainly representing by father Stephen Root (wasted in this role), give them an ultimatum to bring dates to their sister’s (Sugar Lyn Beard) wedding to keep them in check. Mike and Dave are two brothers who ruin every family gathering with shenanigans. The fact that this film has these two characters in the title is astonishing, since the real stars are the female leads. The film has everyone hate Mike and like Dave, sending the implicit argument that attractive people are always better than non-attractive people. Seriously, despite a handful of personality quirks (he draws anthropomorphized alcohol characters) he is an empty cipher of a straight man whose job is to be harmlessly dumb and offer a contrast to Devine’s Mike. Dave is played by Zac Efron, who has nothing to do in this movie.
Mike is played by Adam Devine, who pretty much plays the character as Devine plays every character he’s ever played. They had a good concept for a film (very loosely based on an actual event), but it’s never really fleshed out. “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates” is occasionally amusing, but mostly hollow. Josh K on Independence Day: Resurgence (…ĭysthymia83 on The Horror Genre is Dying: An…