Margot at the Wedding (2007) should have been better than it was. It had a great premise, a great cast and should have pulled it off. But the script became really bad about half way through, and Jack Black way over played his role, and it just did not fit in with the rest of the movie.
The cast, with Black, Nicole Kidman, and Jennifer Jason Leigh (who I like very much) seems to have the right fit as we start the movie. Leigh and Kidman play two sisters that do not get along well, and are equally passive-aggressive towards each other. Black is the somewhat screwed up fiance of Leigh, and Kidman dislikes him intensely and immediately, as she comes to the family house for their simple backyard wedding.
Sounds like winning combo to me. But the script takes them to places the seem absurd, even to these not-so-likable people. they do things that make no sense, and then Jack Black takes is over doing it to a new level, when the director should have told him to underplay it. It is like he is playing Nacho Libre in a drama (or at least a very black comedy) and it does not work at all.
I was really disappointed in this movie.
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