The mind reels over not only how "The Wedding Ringer" got made, but how anyone even remotely connected to its making could have thought the project was anything other than deplorable. Ugly, rancid, vile and mean, the film wastes no time setting up its moronic plot and then sinks into the depths of pure cinematic despair with characters who are hateful across the board. If that weren't enough, this so-called comedy's line-up of pathetic jokes crash violently to the ground every single time, debuting writer-director Jeremy Garelick and co-writer Jay Lavender's (2006's "The Break-Up") preoccupation with cruelty, violence and stereotyping becoming supremely disturbing before the end of the first act.
Doug Harris' (Josh Gad) lavish wedding to fiancée Gretchen Palmer (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting) is fast approaching, but there's one very big problem: he has no one to be his best man and groomsmen. An only child whose parents passed away years ago, he has no relatives to speak of and grew up with few friends. Naturally, his absolute only option is to go behind Gretchen's back and hire someone for $50,000 to play his best friend. Enter The Best Man Inc., an underground operation run by one Jimmy Callahan (Kevin Hart), who makes a living pretending to be lonely guys' buddies in front of their loved ones. Doug will need the Golden Tux package—a best man and seven groomsmen—for his impending nuptials, but convincing Gretchen, her family and the entire wedding party that this charade is actually real will prove more trying than they anticipate. It also doesn't help that the salty-tongued Jimmy is supposed to be a priest in the military named Bic Mitchum.
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