Well if I was Anna Kendrick I would fire my agent.... preferably out of a cannon.
I really think this film was greenlit solely on an idea and without a script which was made up as the film went along.
Mike (Adam Devine) and his younger brother Dave (Zac Efron) are always causing chaos and embarrass their parents. So they are asked by their parents to bring dates for their sister's wedding in Hawaii which means they will behave themselves. I have no idea why the parents never thought that they might bring two chaotic idiots.
This is exactly what happens. After an internet search they meet Tatiana (Audrey Plaza) and Alice (Anna Kendrick) who are two wild party girls who pretend to be respectable and responsible in order to be their wedding dates in Hawaii where they plan to cut loose.
The film is just badly structured, it wants to be a bad taste, high jinks film like Neighbours or The Hangover but the script is poor, even boring with a few key set pieces such as the quad bike scene but the actors have to resort to silliness just to pad out the film.
There are a few laughs to be had but the film is dreadful, interminable, inconsistent in pace and tone. At least the actors got a trip in Hawaii out of it.
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
2016
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Romance
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
2016
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Romance
Plot summary
Mike and Dave are young, adventurous, fun-loving brothers who tend to get out of control at family gatherings. When their sister Jeanie reveals her Hawaiian wedding plans, the rest of the Stangles insist that the brothers bring respectable dates. After placing an ad on Craigslist, the siblings decide to pick Tatiana and Alice, two charming and seemingly normal women. Once they arrive on the island, however, Mike and Dave realize that their companions are ready to get wild and party.
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Hilarious feel good movie
Looking through reviews I can see that I might be an exception, but I loved the movie. The story is about two brothers who need to find dates for their little sister's Hawaii wedding and make an ad. The two wild girls pretend to be good girls so they are chosen.
And it is hilarious all the way through. I was really laughing out loud through most of it. It is not some super clever comedy but it makes one laugh and this is what I need from this kind of movie. We live in a bit of depressing times so it is nice to see this kind of comedy just to relax and laugh.
The characters are all great. Fun people, made me remember the good times of living with my best friend and doing crazy things. And of course the fact that the actors are all talented comedians makes it even better.
Meet The Stangles
Yet another movie where the title tells pretty much all. Meet the brothers Stangle, a pair of liquor salesmen. At least in casting Zac Efron and Adam Devine
the producers got a pair of players who really do look like brothers.
As liquor salesmen these two use the product in selling and know how to party
afterward. These two goofballs both around 30 are being given an ultimatum
with an invitation to their younger sisters wedding. Bring nice respectable
dates and don't embarrass the family by hitting on all the women there.
But two partying women Anna Kendrick and Aubrey Plaza hear a free trip to
Hawaii is in the offing and they maneuver an invitation. And these two like
to party as much as the Stangle brothers.
All in all an occasionally funny films that leads to the gross. I think everyone
here has been in something better.