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  Written November 10, 2008

  Wow, I can't believe I wasted 2 hours of my life watching this movie

  by leadfoot63

  I can find nothing good to say about this movie. It looked like something a couple of high school kids filmed with their Dad's video camera. I was disappointed from the beginning to the end.

  • 10 out of 13 found this review helpful.
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  Written November 9, 2008

  Rachel Getting Married

  by bleubelle

  A friend and I saw this together. We both felt nauseated afterward because it was filmed almost entirely with unsteady hand-held cameras so it was jerky and wobbly and unsteady. The family in the movie is totally dysfunctional. We couldn't figure out why the characters of different ethnic backgrounds had a wedding themed on another culture and a music group from another culture showed up. I think it's the worst movie I've seen in years. The producers wasted their money. My friend and I wasted our time.

  • 7 out of 7 found this review helpful.
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  Written November 9, 2008

  Worst Movie Ever!!!!!!!!!

  by catchamovie

  This was absolutely the WORST movie my husband and I have ever seen!!!! We were literally fighting to keep our eyes open...FYI we went to the earliest matinee...not a night time showing. ZZZZZZZZ The camera work was awful...very shaky ...hence my headache! The shaky camera work kind of started off like that Blair Witch movie! The plot was just dreadful, the 2 main characters were unbelievable as an engaged couple. There was no chemistry between the 2 in our opinion! Please please save your money! DO NOT BOTHER SEEING THIS FARCE OF A MOVIE!!!! We finally had to follow suit and leave a third of the way through...just as THE MANY MANY theater goers did BEFORE of us that morning!!!!

  • 9 out of 11 found this review helpful.
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  Written November 10, 2008

  Skip Rachel Getting Married...

  by euromoviefan

  This was the worst movie I have seen in about 5 years. The "indie" shaky camera thing was pretentious and annoying, the characters were even more annoying, and the entire thing was a waste of $10.50.
  
  Avoid this movie.

  • 10 out of 13 found this review helpful.
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  Written October 14, 2008

  rachel getting married

  by travis bickle

  a boring, pretentious, predictable film that adds nothing new to the genre. if you have seen betsy's wedding, monsoon wedding, or polish wedding then you have already seen this film. anne hathaway gives a fine performance as a former model who has arrived for her sister's wedding and almost ruins it. the standout performance is given by the father of the bride who makes you wonder what he must have done wrong to deserve the dysfunctional family he has. this is an overrated film that for some reason has gotten a great deal of oscar buzz. the director of this film has taken a major step back since he did the silence of the lambs. most of the movie is nothing more than a music video with a great deal of improvisation that ended up in the finished product. there is a reason why this film is hard to find and that is because it is something that a college student could have made.

  • 16 out of 26 found this review helpful.
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  Written November 6, 2008

  Rachel Getting Married

  by sfmoviemeister

  Anne Hathaway does a good job. So does Rosemary Dewitt, who plays her sister, Rachel. I like a good family movie, but this one movie is way too overwrought. And it's too long.

  • 7 out of 8 found this review helpful.
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  Written October 28, 2008

  gut wrenching drama

  by snozzle1

  Observe a painful family drama as Anne Hathaway's character tries to cope with life on the outside of rehab, which just happens to coincide with her sister getting married, and related family revelations. Great performances. The script is also very honest.
  
  At least a handful of people, such as my wife, somehow acquired the idea this was a comedy going in. I'm not sure who is spreading that rumor. It does have several very funny scenes, but they are usually funny in a painful sort of way.
  
  There are a few annoying elements to the movie: What's with all the music? I guess Demme really likes music, but there was at least one scene where a character yells "could you give it a rest?" and the music stops. Thank God! The soundtrack is not bad, but there is just too much of it. It's not natural (in my world, at least) for music to be playing all the time. Related: does the groom really have to sing his vows to his bride? And what's with the whole Indian wedding motif?
  
  

  • 7 out of 8 found this review helpful.
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  Written November 9, 2008

  Rachel Getting Married (Pretentious, Convoluted and Annoying)

  by pageharader

  I was so excited to see this movie. The critics glowing reviews of Jonathan Demme's work and Anne Hathaway's edgy portrayal as the main character Kym had me intriqued. What I found as I sat through the movie (wondering should I leave, or could it get better), was a world far removed from anything I've ever witnessed. The gratuitous interracial marriage was never fleshed out and Tunde Adebimpe should be pissed that any ounce of his character's personality was cut in editing. The dishwasher-loading scene was a long, bad trip and the music grated on my nerves throughout the entire movie. Anne Hathaway's performance, whoopdie-****. I don't think a bunch of eye-liner, dirty hair and screwing the guy from NA who coincidentally and convolutedly happened to be the best man is Oscar worthy. I left feeling like I was going through the pain of withdrawal and the angst of a horrid past which made me think maybe that's why prententious, fos critics reviewd the film positively.

  • 7 out of 8 found this review helpful.
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  Written November 10, 2008

  Beware! Relapse Inevitable.

  by mdrobac3

  This overwrought, self-righteous, tedious, head-ache inducing (both the camera work and the wretched greek chorus of musicians that seemed to be circle jerking all over the film), the inconsistent characters, unbeleivable dialogue and over acting from EVERYONE is just the begiining of why this movie ruined a perfectly good Friday evening. Just horrid.

  • 8 out of 11 found this review helpful.
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  Written November 2, 2008

  Rachel Getting Married

  by therawlinsons

  After all the rave reviews I was really looking forward to seeing this film. What a bitter disappointment. A woman's story told from a male POV, all the women were selfish and incredibly unlikable - the men either benign or mildly sympathetic.
  Sitting in the forth row, I was even willing to make allowances for the neck wrenching hand held camera work - but it was pointless.
  A self-indulgent waste of money. I wish I had spent mine on something else.

  • 6 out of 7 found this review helpful.
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  Written November 4, 2008

  Family dynamics

  by Igotothemoviesalot

  Anne Hathaway is incredible as a junkie out of rehab to attend her sister's wedding. The cast is huge and eclectic, including Debra Winger and American Idol's Tamyra Gray. There is lots of drama and arguments but there is also lots of joy. At times too independent-film-looking, and if you don't mind the shaky camera style, this is a movie with much to say even if you think you've seen it before. The wedding itself confirms there is hope out there.

  • 6 out of 7 found this review helpful.
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  Written November 8, 2008

  The neighbor's home movies are better.

  by zendalover

  Think of the worst family movies you've ever had to sit through, then imagine they were of strangers who were at best irritating, banal and predictable, but you couldn't even had a drink or get up and walk away. There's no cliche left unspoken, nothing unpredictable, and endless endless scenes of people dancing at a wedding, for no other apparent reason than that the set was rented so why not shoot. How any reviewer could expose us to something so terrible, so banal, trite and obvious, is beyond comprehension. Go if you feel like squirming, and spending two completely worthless hours. Otherwise, stay away at all costs.

  • 6 out of 7 found this review helpful.
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  Written November 8, 2008

  RACHAEL GETTING MARRIED

  by Tufrmone

  Rachael Getting Married is proof that some movies aren't better than a sharp stick in your eye.
  
  If you have the unwavering desire to watch a movie filled with every conceivable Hollywood cliche, about a recovering dope addict attend her sister's wedding, this is the movie for you. Run don't walk to see it because it won't be around long. Otherwise, this movie is the just the worst on many levels all the way from the non-existent plot line to the hand carried camera.
  
  Frankly, don't waste your time, instead spend an evening at the home of whatever neighbor has the most dysfunctional unhappy family on the block and you pretty much have duplicated the movie and saved $20.00.
  
  

  • 6 out of 7 found this review helpful.
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  Written December 15, 2008

  Rachel Getting Married

  by smitty_movies

  It was like watching a home video of a nightmare wedding where you know no one and don't particularly care for the troubles and woes that are spelled out in painful detail throughout the flim. The movie is peppered with all sorts of culture clashes that really made no sense at all. The only saving grace was Anne Hathaway's performance, which was pretty stellar. Otherwise, I'd chalk this one up to a bad time at the movies.
  

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• Oh No!
  Written November 2, 2008

  Rachel Getting Married - A Hangover and Throwing-Up

  by ndocouscomcastnet

  Stay away from this bad, long and uninteresting movie. Why all the hype about a disfunctional family and their narcissistic daughter. A very self-indulgent movie by Demme. The Rehearsal Dinner and Wedding scenes were unbearably long...and why do movie makers insist on using jumpy, hand-held cameras to shoot such scenes. Is this technique supposed to make the crap you're watching more believable? GIve me a break. Of course, the movie ends with a kind of "Eh" feeling.
  The only redeeming item in this movie was the Actor - Bill Irwin - who played Rachel and Kym's father. HE did a great job and was actually believable. I would nominate him for Best Supporting Actor.
  If you're asking why did I sit through this whole movie, I would've been in deep doo-doo with my Wife...who also, as it turned out, didn't like this movie and would've walked out early had I nudged her. I guess we were both waiting for a payoff at the end. It never came.

  • 4 out of 4 found this review helpful.
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