With an all black cast and familiar faces you’ve grown fond of – Reagan Gomez (The Parent ‘Hood), Persia White (Girlfriends), and Darrin Dewitt Henson (Soul Food, Stomp the Yard) – Kiss the Bride is a movie you’ll want to love. It’s a movie you’re rooting for before the FADE IN.
But no matter how much you want to love it, in the end, you can only muster a lukewarm shrug.
This because the story is largely predictable and unoriginal. At its best, the film is a barebones female version of The Best Man. Instead of the bride, it’s the groom who seems to have a perfect past but several obvious side glances later between him and the maid of honor suggest that his past could be less than perfect – and that the maid of honor might have something to do with it.
While waiting for his volatile secret to be revealed, you’re dragged through several unnecessary subplots that take the story nowhere: what exactly does a mischievous little sister smoking cigarettes and borrowing a car without permission or Mama dropping off Popeyes spicy chicken have to do with the impending wedding?
It isn’t until 50 minutes into the film that we actually reach a major turning point and shortly after, hear the groom’s *secret* – the shock factor is about predictable as whether it’s going to be cold this winter.
The slowest imaginable credit crawl only pushes the movie to an 80-minute run time, which confirms my suspicions: Kiss the Bride is a short film stretched the distance and even a decent cast could not keep it from floundering.
Yo Ann! That’s interesting. When you find out about the Director, Writer, Producer, etc please do let us know. And I saw Best Man, as far as I am concerned, this “Kiss the Bride” looks like a parody female version of course of Best Man. But there’s just so much more to this movie! For one, I loved the actors. They were adorable. And the kids who were smoking, yah… this movie shows you how children are growing up these days. The fact that the groom took time out of his busy schedule to caution them shows how we black men are coming of age! Ann, there is a lot more here than you saw. I saw I movie I will rate as ‘[x] Ok, I’m impressed’. Do let us know what you thought about the direction.
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