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Rom-Com You’re Cordially Invited Is a Much Better Com Than Rom
Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon just don’t have natural romantic chemistry?
Ferrell is King Galumph, best at working on a broad scale as genial doofuses, heroic fools, and oblivious bloviators, while Witherspoon’s a diminutive spitfire whose characters insist on a more grounded context for their (deserved or ruthless) triumphs over their doubters. Ferrell’s fraction is a father-daughter lark about a disturbingly devoted parent shaken by the prospect of his only child leaving him for a life of her own with the college boyfriend she’s rushing to wed. Witherspoon’s is a family reunion dramedy about a successful career woman who regresses to a defensive teenager in the company of the buttoned-down Atlanta kin she’s mostly estranged from. But You’re Cordially Invited is overstuffed with funny people — Jimmy Tatro, as Neve’s Rascal Flatts–loving Chippendale dancer of a groom, basically serves as the Chekhov’s gun of stripping — to the point where I wished the film could be pared down just so that it could spend a little more time with these characters, the wonderful throwaway details the script crams in, and the brilliant bits of line delivery its cast is effortlessly capable of.
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