Our Family Wedding

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

A breezy, uncomplicated, unapologetically broad comedy.

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

A formulaic wedding comedy about mismatched families, but thanks to several appealing performances this rote exercise turns out better than most.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

The movie is made livelier by its bit players -- King, Murphy, Lupe Ontiveros as Lucia’s bigoted grandma, Anna Maria Horseford as Marcus’s grandmother, Shannyn Sossamon as one of Whitaker’s airhead girlfriends, and, best of all, Anjelah Johnson as Lucia’s car-mechanic sister.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Ferrera and Gross are the most appealing pair I've seen in awhile; their calm confidence is a welcome antidote to the unrealistic couples who've been cluttering our screens way too long.

Philadelphia Inquirer Tirdad Derakhshani

Wait till the DVD release.

USA Today Claudia Puig

The contrived insult comedy here feels old, borrowed and blue.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

A pleasant but inconsequential comedy, awkward for the actors, and contrived from beginning to end.

Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall

The families' hopes for a tasteful, upscale wedding are sabotaged by warring egos and low-rent, walking-stereotype relatives.

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

While patience is a virtue in a marriage, we shouldn't need quite this much to make it through a movie.

The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden

Though the intended hilarity is forced and flat, there's a sweetness to the silliness.

Variety Justin Chang

This broad ethnic farce serves up a full-on culture collision, but -- thanks to a handful of diverting performers -- stops just short of becoming a train wreck.

New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott

It has a sweet quality, and Forest Whitaker gets a chance to show off his comic chops.

Boxoffice Magazine Sara Schieron

It’d all be pretty ho-hum weren’t it for some decent chemistry between the leads and the effortless presence of Regina King and Forest Whitaker.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

Be prepared to swallow a lot of empty-calorie jokes in which blacks and Latinos insult and misunderstand one another in a spirit of vigorous buffoonery.

Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey

Instead of invitations, they should be sending out apologies for Our Family Wedding, a cake-and-kisses comedy that has disaster written all over it and not for the right reasons.

Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore

A broad and formulaic culture-clash comedy built on fill-in-the-blank wedding comedy clichés.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Kevin C. Johnson

Director Rick Famuyiwa did much better when focusing just on African-American culture in films such as "Brown Sugar" and "The Wood." Here, in bringing together two cultures, he does neither any favors.

The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis

Alternately rancid and ridiculous, strident and sickly sweet, Our Family Wedding”offers plenty that’s old, borrowed and blue; it’s the something new that’s missing.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

We know to a certainty what will happen. More to the point, the writers know that we know. But here’s the intriguing bit: They don’t care. Rather, their job as diligent Tinseltown hacks is simply to devise ways of filling up the remaining 90 minutes.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

A cringeworthy, unfunny example of a culture-clash romantic comedy.

St. Petersburg Times Steve Persall

Our Family Wedding should embarrass Whitaker and each of his co-stars, perhaps except Carlos Mencia, whose chief attribute as an actor is that he's a so-so standup comedian.

Village Voice Aaron Hillis

Might've made for a progressive film if director and co-writer Rick Famuyiwa (Brown Sugar) hadn't pandered to the lowest common denominator with brainless screwball laughs.

Time Out New York Nick Schager

Aside from an uncomfortable-looking Carlos Mencia, who seems to actively cower before the camera, the cast is robotically efficient--though that’s not the same thing as coming out of this lifeless mess unscathed.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

We remain a nation divided, but hopefully we’ve at least progressed beyond the need for clumsy message movies about racial tolerance, as fortified with dick jokes.