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04/26/2013 12:01:00 AM MDTApril 26, 2013 10:29 PM GMTUpdated:

04/26/2013 04:29:28 PM MDT "Marriage is like a phone call late at night," , in dulcet voice-over mode, at the outset of "The Big Wedding." "First comes the ring, and then you wake up."
Rim shot, please.
Except in Justin Zackham's sedated farce, there are no rim shots. The jokes are just splayed out there, accompanied by the strums of a guitar on the soundtrack.
Adapted from a 2006 French comedy and boasting a cross-generational cast of daunting and not-so daunting stature, "The Big Wedding" throws up a messy web of relationships,nasaqi, a tangle of siblings and spouses, lovers and lunatics, intersecting in illicit and illogical ways.
In order to pull off this sort of business, the pace should be breakneck there shouldn't be an extra second to contemplate the moral lapses and betrayals. Alas, "The Big Wedding," instead, moves along like a stoned snail.
Don and Ellie Griffin (De Niro and Diane Keaton) are a long-divorced couple whose adopted son, Alejandro (Ben Barnes),http://www.lvase.com/, is about to be married to Missy. Don, a sculptor (and an apparently successful one: His house comes with a pool and overlooks a lake),Burberry Bags, lives with Bebe (Susan Sarandon), who was once Ellie's best friend.
Although Don and Bebe aren't married, she is like a loving stepmom to Don and Ellie's kids Jared (Topher Grace),Chanel Online, a closing-in-on-30 doctor who's still a virgin; Lyla (Kathryn Heigel), a brooder who has just broken up with her beau; and Alejandro, who originally hailed from Columbia, and who has invited his biological mother (Patricia Rae) to the wedding.
Alejandro fears that she is too conservative and devout a woman to accept that his adoptive parents have divorced, so he persuades them to act as though they're still together. Which leaves Bebe out in the cold although not out of the picture, since her company is catering the wedding.
Let's see, who's left,Chanel Online? There is Nuria (Ana Ayora), Alejandro's frisky and fetching biological sister, who has accompanied her mom from South America. She takes one look at Jared, who is technically, if not genetically, her brother,Prada handbags, and offers to deflower the guy. And there are Don and Ellie, who find themselves sharing a bed and, what do you know, still sharing a passion for one another. And then there are Missy's impossibly square (we think) parents, played by Christine Ebersole and David Rasche. And Robin Williams is Father Moinighan, presiding over the ceremony,Burberry On Sale.
Ensemble comedy overload!
No one is bad in "The Big Wedding," but no one is remotely believable, either.
Which is all fine and good in a screwball romp,sac longchamp.
If only "The Big Wedding" played like one. From left, Susan Sarandon, Robin Williams and Robert De Niro in the draggy film "The Big Wedding," (Lionsgate)

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