The Big Wedding - C

Rated R, 89 minutes

Thin but predictable "Wedding" blandly channels family dysfunction

Robert DeNiro and Katherine Heigl

If you enjoy seeing people cry, break up and wear lots of beige, pastels and floral prints, then the cute but flimy new all-star family dysfunction comedy "The Big Wedding" is for you. Robert DeNiro and Diane Keaton have long been divorced but on good terms; Susan Sarandon is DeNiro's current love and Keaton's best friend (of course), while Katherine Heigl, Topher Grace and Ben Barnes are their children, trying to stay in perfect form for Barnes' wedding to Amanda Seyfried. Throw in Robin Williams as the priest who marries them and the whole sha-bang might go to hell. "The Big Wedding" is as bland as those beige clothes, directed and written by Justin Zackham, who wrote the equally maudlin "Bucket List," balances the schmaltz and humor, some of it well-timed, while the plot is woefully thin and some scenes go on too long. The pretty cast do their best though to help you make it through the big day, and many are indeed charming. Keaton and Heigl are remarkably less shrill, DeNiro suitably gruff, Grace and Barnes bland while the movie truly belongs to the radiant Sarandon, who much like she did in the recent Robert Redford thriller "The Company You Keep," is the most memorable (though underwritten) part of a mediocre ensemble. The pleasantly entertaining "The Big Wedding" does its job and it's not a terrible film, but it lacks purpose and could've been much better: see DeNiro's "Silver Linings Playbook" for good measure.

Wes's Grade: C