The story of this movie is about two brothers Mike and Dave who are very fun-loving and adventurous people.
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“There’s a lot of raunch to it, but I wouldn’t classify it as a raunchy comedy”.
Once in Hawaii, it’s not the brothers who wreak havoc, but Alice and Tatiana, which leads to a few terrific, twisted sight gags.
Mike (Adam Devine) and Dave (Zac Efron) are brothers who share a wholesale alcohol business together and are the disappointment of their entire family with their insane, destructive antics.
IF THERE’S one thing Zac Efron and Adam DeVine agree on, it’s that the latter is very impressive in the downstairs department.
Wedding Dates would love to be a millennial Wedding Crashers (there’s even a reference made), but the script from Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O’Brien (the Neighbors franchise) doesn’t quite get there, sticking to an occasionally weary-making bombardment of mayhem, dirty jokes and wise-assery. The character in the movie Mike and Dave are big party crashers. Both are trashy waitresses who contrive a meeting with two brothers, Mike and Dave Stangle (Adam DeVine, Zac Efron) who published a viral post seeking “nice girls” to be their dates for their sister’s wedding, their dad (Stephen Root) having chewed them out for constantly ruining previous family events they attended stag. It’s astoundingly sloppy, like something you might find in a student film, certainly not what you should find in a movie with talent of this caliber. They sweep the guys off their feet with their good-girl act, and the foursome heads off to Hawaii. When their search for “nice girls” becomes a minor public sensation, they’re tricked by recently unemployed, complete messes Alice (Anna Kendrick) and Tatiana (Aubrey Plaza), posing as a hedge fund manager and teacher, into bringing them along for the free vacation. They make an appearance on a talk show to advertise themselves to get flawless dates for them and so that is how they get the attention of Anna Kendrick and Aubrey Plaza. Honorable mention needs to go to Kumail Nanjiani as the masseuse, Keanu (Sex Tape), for probably one of the funniest scenes in the whole film.
But it’s thanks to Efron and DeVine’s delivery that the dialogue pulls out such loud laughs. Adam Devine, is vein-poppingly intense and ridiculous as Mike, and squeezes in a laugh or two when he’s allowed to be his weirdest. She’s the best and funniest thanks to her effervescence and sight gags, but even she is mostly lost in a film that has not one genuine or honest moment.
As the trailer of the Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates which was released earlier on the social media and YouTube, has generated a large number of fan following, but as per the critics the movie has mixed reviews, and has an average rating of 5.6 out of 10.
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The story makes as much sense as any modern R-rated comedy’s narrative – which is to say, not much.
