The Back-up Bride

Half-hearted acting, predictable story, not much of a point to it. A man is about to marry a woman who loves him, and the marriage will benefit him, but then his old girlfriend shows up and he realizes that is making a mistake. Seriously, how many times have we seen this?

If I had to pinpoint the main problem here, I would say that the movie was not funny enough. It was clearly meant to be a comedy - Hal Ozsan and Chip Joslin got a few laughs out of me - but overall the movie was low on humor, and was too awkward to be a feel-good film. It certainly was not well-made enough to be taken seriously.

For example, we are told that seven years went by after a scene in which Daisy looked about ten years old. But now she clearly looks like she's in her twenties, which kept me from understanding at first that this was supposed to be the same person (Jen Lilley is actually about 14 years older than Kaylee Dodson, rather than 7 years older). Another problem was Joe's dishonesty, which seemed understandable at first, but after a certain point he started to look like a real snake, and I felt like he never even admitted to himself that he was hurting people.

Like I said, I found a few moments of this movie amusing, and I think it might have worked if it had included some more slapstick humor and mistaken identity. As it is, this movie did not work.