This is going to be a very conditional movie review. “My Best Friend’s Wedding” had its good points, it had its bad points, and I think the good outweighed the bad, but that’s a matter of personal preference and you might find it otherwise. Let’s examine the evidence.
Julia Roberts plays Julianne Potter, a woman who has just learned that her best friend, Michael (Dermot Mulroney) is engaged to be married. They’ve had a long-standing agreement that if they aren’t married to anyone else by the time they’re thirty, they’ll marry each other, and Julianne has just always taken it for granted that’s what will happen. But when she gets the call that he’s found The One, she’s crushed. Even more than that, she realizes that she’s been in love with him for years. When he asks her to come for the wedding, she spends a lot of time trying to break them up, but everything she does only drives him farther into his fiance’s arms (played by Cameron Diaz). Eventually, Julianne realizes that the two of them are made for each other, and she steps out of the way and gives them her blessing.
There really is a lot of good humor in this movie. Rupert Everett plays her other good friend, George, who, although gay, pretends to be her boyfriend so she can save some face. He bursts into Dionne Warwick songs at the drop of a hat (I enjoyed that). However, there was some crudity and language – Julianne uses the “f” word and at one point, a repressed bridesmaid becomes little too friendly with an ice sculpture of a male figure . . . it’s not quite as bad as what you’re thinking but something else along those lines.
If content is a concern for you, this would be one I’d suggest you either approach with caution or let it pass you by. If content doesn’t bother you quite so much, you’ll probably enjoy the humor and the sweetness that is present in this PG-13 rated film.
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