Un matrimonio di troppo

Director/writer Nicholas Stoller must have recognized the challenge he had in casting Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon as a romantic pair in this 2025 comedy because he basically waits until the end of the film to deal with the dilemma. In the meantime, he focuses the energy on the revenge hijinks that occur when a reservation mishap leads to a double-booking of a lakeside mansion for competing wedding parties. Ferrell plays Jim, an oversensitive, widowed father of one bride, who has a somewhat disturbingly close relationship with his daughter in Atlanta. Witherspoon is Margot, a Type-A LA-based reality TV producer who wants to plan the wedding of her pregnant baby sister, even though the relationship she has with the rest of her deceptively genteel Southern family is quite dysfunctional. Initially upon discovery of the scheduling conflict, Jim and Margot are willing to work together and compromise, but of course, conflict and increasingly elaborate shenanigans ensue. Ferrell and Witherspoon are masters at their respective comedy styles and get a lot of mileage out of the sight gags (like an errant alligator), contrived plot mechanics, and clever under-the-breath asides. It all works well enough until that awkward point of no return. A solid supporting cast helps with standout work from Leanne Morgan as Margot's sexually desperate sister, Keyla Monterroso Mejia as an overzealous maid of honor, and Celia Weston as Margot's dismissive mother. If the film stopped fifteen minutes earlier than it does, it would've greatly improved.