A Few Best Men: Movie Review

A Few Best Men

Cast: Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall, Kevin Bishop, Olivia Newton-John, Ramsy the sheep, Rebel Wilson

Bridesmaids has set the bar high for R rated wedding based comedies.

And so the latest contender to the crown emerges from Australia and the UK in this joint venture.

Twilight's Xavier Samuel stars as David, whose holiday fling ends with him proposing marriage to Aussie girl, Mia. So when he heads back to the UK, David gathers his friends, Graham, Tom and Luke, tells them the news and the gang of four head down under for the society wedding.

But, as ever, things don't go according to plan - as Tom and Graham unwittingly unleash the wrath of a drug dealer thanks to a misunderstanding; and Mia's senator father finds his plans for the big day, disrupted&will David manage to get things back on track?

A Few Best Men manages a handful of good laughs scattered throughout, before pulling out every predictable gag in its limited repertoire as it weaves its way to its unsurprising end.

Jokes involving the sheep, drugs, sheep CPR, toilet humour, Hitler moustaches, gimp masks - they are all unveiled as the writers throw absolutely everything they have into the mix but it's not enough to be able to save this from a real mire of awfulness.

And because it's so predictable and bad, it becomes a matter of enduring to the end of the film rather than enjoying it.

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