Shotgun Wedding
Came out; 2022
Time; 1 hours 40 minutes
Watched: Amazon
Rating; R for language and some violence/bloody images
IMDB Rating; 5.5/10
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring;
Jennifer Lopez as Darcy Rivera
Josh Duhamel as Tom Fowler
Lenny Kravitz as Sean Hawkins
Jennifer Coolidge as Carol Fowler
Sonia Braga as Renata Ortiz
Cheech Marin as Robert Rivera
Steve Coulter as Larry Fowler
D'Arcy Carden as Harriet
Story Line;
Darcy (Jennifer Lopez) and Tom (Josh Duhamel) gather their lovable but very opinionated families for the ultimate destination wedding, just as the couple begins to get cold feet. And if that wasn't enough of a threat to the celebration, suddenly everyone's lives are in danger when the entire party is taken hostage. "'Til Death Do Us Part" takes on a whole new meaning in this hilarious, adrenaline-fueled adventure as Darcy and Tom must save their loved ones--if they don't kill each other first
Thoughts;
This was a decent movie; it had some cute moments and some really good ones too. I didn't expect to go the way it did.
It was cute and some fun moments, it wasn't the best romantic comedy I've seen but it was different for sure!
CAUTION; Major Spoiler Alert
The
film opens on an island resort in the Philippines. Families and
friends are gathered for the wedding of Darcy Rivera (Jennifer Lopez)
and Tom Fowler (Josh Duhamel). Darcy shows up to a dinner where she
meets with her mother, Renata (Sonia Braga), who thinks the big
wedding is too flashy. Meanwhile, Tom is setting up a surprise for
Darcy on a motorboat but gets startled by the security guard, causing
him to fall into the water.
Tom's mother, Carol (Jennifer
Coolidge), arrives with her second husband, Larry (Steve Coulter). At
the same time, Darcy's father, Robert (Cheech Marin), shows up with
his new younger girlfriend, Harriet (D'Arcy Carden), which annoys
Renata since she still hates Robert after their divorce. While Darcy
and Tom try to spend time together, Tom gets pulled away by his best
friend/best man Ricky (Desmin Borges), leaving Darcy to be with her
younger sister Jamie (Callie Hernandez). Complicating matters is the
arrival of Darcy's charming ex-boyfriend Sean (Lenny Kravitz), who
was invited by Robert. He calls Darcy "Dee Dee," and his
presence puts Tom on edge, with everyone seeing he is clearly
jealous. Tom delivers a speech that is upstaged by Sean's more
personal speech toward Darcy. This is followed by Tom's sister
Jeannie (Melissa Hunter) delivering a speech discussing her recent
marital problems.
Darcy and Tom try to wind down and get
intimate with one another, but it is interrupted by Carol coming in
to offer words that she thinks are encouraging, but they really
aren't. The couple ends up sleeping separately.
The next
morning is wedding day. As preparations are being made, a group of
pirates makes their way toward the island after seeing the couple's
wedding website. Darcy is helped by Renata, Jamie, and Carol into her
dress, but she feels that something isn't right. She texts Tom to
meet privately, and Darcy says she feels that having everyone come to
the Philippines for their wedding was too much, as she never wanted a
big wedding. They argue until they decide that they ought to call off
the wedding, just as the pirates storm the resort and take the staff
and guests hostage. Tom witnesses this and runs to warn Darcy. The
pirates force everyone into a pool and demand a $45 million ransom
from Robert, as they know how wealthy he is.
Tom gets Darcy
out of her room and tells her what's happening. They see an armed
pirate attempting to break in and try to come up with a plan to trap
him. While they attempt to subdue him with their own ideas (Tom wants
to trap him in a net while Darcy thinks spraying his eyes with
hairspray would do the trick), they both get taken down and are tied
up together. The pirates then head with the couple to bring them to
their leader, but Darcy asks for a cigarette and uses it to light the
pirates' heads on fire, causing them to jump out and leaving the
couple to try and take control of the driver less cart. They manage
to jump out, but Darcy's dress gets caught and is mostly ripped off
as the cart falls over a cliff. They are then attacked by one of the
pirates, but Darcy manages to pull a grenade from his hand, and Tom
kicks him and makes him fall against a rock, killing him. This leaves
him mortified at killing a man.
Darcy and Tom try to find a
way to untie themselves, but Tom informs Darcy to be careful with the
grenade she is holding because it doesn't have a pin in it, and her
dropping it could set it off. They try to find an area with good cell
reception so they can call for help, but they get chased by more
pirates, and Darcy drops the phone. They find a zip line tower where
they descend, and Darcy drops the grenade on two pirates, which
alerts the others to their location when it blows up. When the couple
lands, they are scared to see their loved ones being held hostage and
try to find a way to get help.
The couple goes into the
kitchen to find a way to cut their bindings. A female pirate enters
just as they cut themselves free with a deli slicer (but Tom gets a
nasty cut on his hand that makes Darcy faint). Tom fights the pirate
until he knocks her out by smashing her through a glass window. When
Darcy comes to her senses, she shortens her dress and wears boots so
she can spring into action and help Tom save their loved ones.
Darcy
and Tom find the main office of the resort but find that they have no
internet. The owners, Margy (Selena Tan) and Ace (Alberto Isaac),
hide the couple in their bunker. While tending to Tom's wound, Margy
lets it slip that the resort was hit by pirates the previous summer,
which Tom had known about. Darcy yells at Tom over this and his habit
of self-sabotaging and his insecurities, which is what led him to
make the big wedding. Tom hits back that Darcy is putting on a big
front of being confident when she is also scared. Tom then takes
responsibility for the hostages since he brought them all there. When
another pirate starts getting close, Ace and Margy send the couple
down a tunnel, but Tom gets out and turns himself in to be captured,
leaving Darcy hidden.
Tom is brought to the other hostages. He
tells the lead pirate a phrase in Balinese (which means "fuck
your grandpa"), and he then holds Sean at knife-point. Tom
deduced that Sean is the bad guy who hired the pirates because Sean
had said the phrase earlier, and Tom figured the pirates are
Balinese. He even produces a wedding invitation that one of the
pirates had, and Tom states that Sean had hoped to get the ransom
from Robert since he did not give him investment money. Sean drops
the act and breaks free, joining the pirates and holding a gun at
Tom.
Darcy begins to feel bad while staying with Ace and Margy
over her argument with Tom, so she is encouraged to save everyone
herself. Sean takes the lead pirate with him to go find Darcy, using
Harriet as collateral and taking her with him in his helicopter.
Darcy arrives with a gun and tries to reconcile with Tom before
taking on the pirates. The pirates end up taking Darcy with the other
hostages, with one of the pirates personally wanting to kill Darcy
because she burned his face. The others then learn that Harriet was
in on the scheme the whole time, as Larry had been recording
everything and got footage of her and Sean making out. While in the
helicopter, Harriet kills the lead pirate by hitting a pressure point
to paralyze him and then throws him out of the helicopter.
Darcy
and Tom devise a plan by doing an impromptu wedding ceremony in the
pool, which the pirates allow. Carol leads everyone to sing the song
"I'll Be" before the couple seizes an opportunity to fight
back (with Carol getting her hands on a rifle too). They use another
grenade to kill the pirates, setting off some fireworks that alert
Sean and Harriet. Ace and Margy help the guests get to safety while
Darcy and Tom try to stop the villains.
The couple makes it to
the docks, where they subdue a young pirate and try to take the
motorboat that Tom was going to surprise Darcy with. They are found
by Sean, who attempts to get Darcy on his side, but she refuses to
join him. She and Tom hop in the boat while Sean hangs on to go after
them. Harriet attempts to shoot at them from the helicopter. As Darcy
speeds the boat up, Tom and Sean get caught in a para-sail that flies
upwards. Tom uses a chunk of fake hair to zip line down, and Darcy
uses a cake knife that Carol gave her to cut the para-sail loose,
causing Sean to get shredded by the helicopter's blades, and Harriet
goes down into the ocean when the helicopter crashes.
Darcy
and Tom make it back to the island, where they fully reconcile and
agree to go on with their wedding. Authorities show up to arrest the
surviving pirates, and Darcy and Tom finally get married. Jamie and
Ricky (who were hooking up) then accidentally set off the last
firework.
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