The wedding invites are in the mail and June 1 is around the corner, but Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell have just one little problem in their new Prime Video flick, You’re Cordially Invited: The venue they both separately reserved is overbooked.
Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play the sister and father of two brides fighting over the same venue in Nicholas Stoller's winning comedy.
Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell have teamed up for You're Cordially Invited on Prime Video, an outrageous rom-com also featuring Geraldine Viswanathan, Jack McBrayer, Rory Scovel.
Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon’s Prime Video movie seems destined to be a streaming hit. I’m not sure it should be.
Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon are rivals who crash each other's wedding parties in the unfunny Prime Video rom-com "You're Cordially Invited."
This Prime Video rom-com is much funnier when its leads are flirting with disaster than it is when they're flirting with each other.
The most surprising thing about this by-the-numbers comedy, in fact, is that it comes to us from writer-director Nicholas Stoller. He updated Kermit & Co. so delightfully in “The Muppets,” tartly reconceived the revenge rom-com with “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” and scored on the small screen with both “Platonic” and the updated “Goosebumps.”
Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Neighbors, Bros) is one of Hollywood’s few reliable comedy directors, and though You’re Cordially Invited, which premieres Jan. 30 on Prime Video, won’t be remembered as his crowning clownish achievement,
You’re Cordially Invited (now streaming on Amazon Prime Video) lures us to Yet Another Goddamn Destination-Wedding Rom-Com with stars Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell, who go mano-a-mano in a love-hate-love-hate-love-hate plot that has to end on one of those notes,
The duo's latest romcom 'You're Cordially Invited', directed by Nicholas Stoller, is currently streaming on Prime Video
Stoller’s previous credits include Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Get Him to the Greek (2010) and the underrated Bad Neighbours (2014); his dialogue and instinct for familial malice are both razor-sharp. Witherspoon, in particular, delivers his zingers with the unerring aim of a screwball comedy heroine.