Shotgun Wedding Cast 2023

Shotgun Wedding Cast 2023

  • Jennifer Lopez as Darcy Rivera
  • Josh Duhamel as Tom Fowler
  • Lenny Kravitz as Sean Hawkins
  • Jennifer Coolidge as Carol Fowler
  • Sonia Braga as Renata Ortiz
  • Cheech Marin as Robert Rivera
  • Steve Coulter as Larry Fowler
  • D’Arcy Carden as Harriet
  • Callie Hernandez as Jamie Rivera
  • Desmin Borges as Ricky Silver
  • Selena Tan as Margy
  • Alberto Isaac as Ace
  • Melissa Hunter as Jeannie
  • Pancho Cardena as Pirate Leader(as Pancho Cardeña)
  • Alex Mallari Jr. as Dog-Face
  • Tharoth Sam as Rat-Face
  • Worapojd Thautanon as Clown-Face(as Worapoj Thuantanon)
  • Zachary Wood as Shark-Face

A “Shotgun Wedding” is a cherry stuffed with alcohol and wrapped in chocolate. The film opens as a standard glossy romantic comedy about a nervously excited engaged couple on the eve of their wedding. With the dawn, the film shifts into an action comedy in which the protagonist and her fiance try to save their parents and the rest of their wedding party from a band of pirates who have invaded their ceremony on a remote island near the Philippines that is conveniently (for plot purposes) too far from the mainland to get good cell reception.

Shotgun Wedding Cast 2023

The bride, Darcy, is played by Jennifer Lopez. She didn’t want a big wedding but agreed because… well, maybe it’s best to let the movie explain that. There are also the worries of Darcy’s fiancé Tom (Josh Duhamel), a washed-up minor league baseball player; Darcy’s ex-lover Sean (Lenny Kravitz), who wasn’t invited but showed up anyway; the awkward energy of Darcy’s divorced parents, Roberto and Renata (Cheech Marin and Sônia Braga), which adds to the bride’s worries; and Tom’ (Jennifer Coolidge and Steve Coulter).

“Shotgun Wedding,” made partly by Lopez’s company, is a ridiculous movie fantasy. The stunts are right out of a James Bond or Alfred Hitchcock movie. But we’re willing to put up with even the silliest situations because the main couples’ feelings are based in the messiness of real life. (Darcy and Tom have a recurring, unresolvable argument about how many steps are too many in a plan, which might make some viewers feel like they are listening in on their conversation.) At first, it seems like the pirates will be faceless cannon fodder in the Pacific, but the characters and plot twists make that worry go away: everyone in this movie is a little bit crazy, even the bad guys. As in hard-edged Hollywood comedies like “Game Night,” the violence gets close to being unpleasant while staying in cartoon land.

Lopez and Duhamel are probably too old for roles written for people in their 20s. Lopez, who is 52, has the energy of a teenager and says, “I’m a grown woman!” Duhamel is 50, the same age as the oldest active Major League Baseball player, and we’re supposed to believe that he was being scouted a year before the movie’s events. But the actors are so funny that we can see them as cute kids with a lot to learn about how to be in a relationship.

Lopez makes good use of how she looks. In the first part of the movie, Darcy, who is wearing a tank top and underwear, “tries” and “fails” to reach a book on a high shelf to flirt with her stressed-out fiancé. This is part of their bedtime roleplaying routine; he’s the hot handyman. It’s naughty and funny, like when people flirt in real life. Later, there’s a trick that’s like the end of “The Incredibles” for long wedding trains. Then, in a scene that could be on a movie poster, Darcy’s gown, which was getting in the way, gets shredded in a way that makes her look like a sci-fi bounty hunter. Duhamel acts in a hurt way with his action-hero body and oak-aged bourbon voice. Tom is a big little boy who is always afraid of letting people down. But when bombs go off and golf carts fall off cliffs, the character’s dirty, bloody tuxedo marks him as a dependable action hero: Bond’s low-confidence Yankee cousin.

Screenwriter Mark Hammer and director Jason Moore (who has worked in TV and movies for a long time and directed “Avenue Q” and “Steel Magnolias” on Broadway as well as “Pitch Perfect”) have a good feel for their leads and get great performances from the rest of the cast. Coolidge steals the show by blurting out strange, nonsensical things at the wrong times. Marin is also great in a role that requires him to play it straight (he gets some of the biggest laughs in the movie by saying “Thanks, Carol” over and over). Braga’s part isn’t very well written (or maybe it was cut down? ), but she makes the character seem like she has secrets she’ll never tell with her otherworldly gaze. Kravitz is also a standout. He plays a braggart who thinks he’s God’s gift and is handsome enough to keep failing upward. It’s kind of like when George Clooney acts for the Coen Brothers and makes fun of himself for being so good-looking.

You’ve seen some parts of the movie before, and some you haven’t. The first act is short. The guests arrive on the island (Sean comes down in a helicopter with his shirt open to his navel), and Mark Hammer’s script introduces them all. But it feels like it goes on forever because the exposition is as blunt as the name tags that show up later in the story, and there are too many lines that sound like they were written in a Hollywood writers’ room, like “Dad is a messy b*tch who loves drama” and “Pirates chasing you wasn’t on your vision board?”

But to be fair, even some of the best romantic comedies have trouble getting this kind of thing out of the way. Once the pirates say what they want, the movie is, in the words of master screenwriter William Goldman, “on rails,” moving from one set piece to the next, giving fights, shootouts, and other chaos an odd sweetness. Along the way, it shows off a talent that has become sadly rare in American commercial movies: the ability to add a touch of poetry to everyday things like a wedding dress, a tuxedo, a cake knife, name tags, wedding invitations, a shotgun, and a grenade. You wouldn’t think that a shot of a speedboat would be emotional, but it is at that point in the story. The movie is well-made and sometimes even beautiful. Near the end, there’s a music montage where the sound and dialogue stop and we just see bodies moving through space. It’s a mix of slow-mo action movie badassery and funny comic bits. It’s exciting not only because it’s beautifully directed and edited (by Doc Crotzer), but also because Lopez and Duhamel seem to have agreed to act like they’re in “The Last of the Mohicans.”

Shotgun Wedding’s greatest moments had the zing of Howard Hawks’ screwball romances like “Bringing Up Baby,” in which a leopard walks through intermittently, the main pair clings to a falling dinosaur skeleton, and Cary Grant ends up donning a woman’s silk robe and yells, “I simply got queer all of a sudden!” What’s important is not the plot, but how the main character changes over time. We see two strong-willed people work through their differences and learn to work as a team. It’s like “Die Hard” remade as a couples’ therapy session.

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