It's a nice day for a white wedding

Royal winchin'

You'd need to be a blind/deaf/dumb/mute/recluse to have missed the GARGANTUAN hype around the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton this weekend, and like every other female on the planet I too got sucked right in.

Who doesn't love a real life fairytale?

So I thought I'd blog about the sanctity and importance of marriage, the delicate intricacies of relationships and the much discussed pros and cons of marital union.

NAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTT!

Let's instead look at a few examples of amusing movie marriages and woeful weddings...

Muriel's Wedding

YOU'RE TERRIBLE MURIEL. No, seriously.

An obvious but hilarious example of the tragic wannabe bride. Toni Collette's turn as the brassy, bold yet pathetically loveable Muriel tugged the heartstrings and tested the boak reflex of many. Muriel's Wedding is far more than just the story of a lonely girl's plight to marry...anyone: tragic? yes. Hilarious? DEFINITELY!

The Wedding Singer

The face of marital bliss.

Again, the name's a bit of a give away but again, The Wedding Singer undoubtedly pokes bittersweet fun at the ritual of marriage, with hugely amusing repercussions. Equally as pathetic as he is charming, Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler) wants to wed more than anything, yet inevitably meets many an obstacle along the way. From depression and desperation comes much humour. Cameos from Steve Buscemi, Jon Lovitz and Billy Idol add further luminous, gaudy colour to this heart-warming flick - oh and the 2 disc soundtrack is an absolute 80s beast! (Not that I own it or anything...)

Father of the Bride

Grimacing father on your wedding day: every little girl's dream

I like to imagine my dad will be something akin to Steve Martin in Father of the Bride when I get married: concerned, socially awkward and being terrorised by a massively camp wedding planner named Franc (pronounced "fronk"). LOLs come steadily and reliably throughout this remake of a Spencer Tracy classic, perfect Sunday afternoon fodder.




Now for some specific wedding moments from otherwise un-weddingy films...

Wayne's World 2

WE'RE NOT WORTHY! WE'RE NOT WORTHY!

Anyone who knows me will know I have the unique talent of quoting both Wayne's World films VERBATIM,  and one of my favourite scenes from the second offering, the aptly named Wayne's World 2, is the "race to the alter" scene, in which Wayne (Mike Myers) has to stop Cassandra from marrying Bobby (Christopher Walken). This delectable parody of a classic (The Graduate) is befitting of the wit and humour of the other two films, and has resulted in me battering any full length window I come across in my adult life and screaming: "Jesus God NO! CASSANDRAAAA!"

Night at the Roxbury

My ideal Prince William

The climactic scene in ridiculous comedy classic, A Night at the Roxbury, is the arranged wedding of Steve Butabi (Will Ferrell) and Emily Sanderson (Molly Shannon) and as imagined the path of true love never runs smoothly. Skillfully cramming in as many parodies as possible within a 15 minute sequence, this bad boy gets me every time.WHAT IS LOVE?

Asphinctersayswhat?

We're not worthy! We're not worthy!

To quote the dvd cover: "In the tradition of 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'Gandhi' comes a sweeping screen epic bursting with spectacle and drama...NOT!!!"
AND THANK CHRIST FOR THAT! I dare not imagine what would have happened if Mike Myers had ever attempted anything close to a serious tone with 90s comedy classics, "Wayne's World" 1 & 2.

Possibly the most quotable film OF ALL TIME (in my house anyway) it was really only a matter of time before I paid homage to Wayne Campbell.

For anyone who's never seen "Wayne's World", or it's sequel, i judge you. Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh not really, if anything, I pity you. But if you have a humourous bone in your body you'll want to watch this, and here's why:

1. Quotage to last a lifetime - Believe me when I say I quote "Wayne's World" every day. Granted some days more than others, but from the common conversational phrase ("Exqueeze me? A baking powder?") to the crude ("Ill have the cream-of-sum-yung-guy") to the just plain obscure ("SHHHHHHHWWWWWWWWIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNGGGGG") - I advise you add these phrases to your repetoire.

2. You want to be friends with most of the cast - I defy anyone to watch it and not want to be friends with Wayne and Garth - sure they have annoying qualities, but doesn't everyone? 'Course.

3. Christopher Walken endorses it - so it must be cool.

4. It takes nothing seriously - In writing these films Myers has blatantly went to town in many respects: the plentiful parodies (too many to mention), casting impossibly attractive women as their girlfriends (Tia Carrere and Kim Basinger), the alternate endings (most notably Scooby Doo ending)...the list really is quite endless. Basically what anyone in their right mind would do given a small budget and a brilliant cast. Genius.

5. Del Preston - If you don't who this is I'll have to beat you to death with your own shoes...

6. It's got a bitchin' soundtrack - The Bohemian Rhapsody car scene has now gained legendary status, throw in some Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath and Hendrix and we got ourselves a party!

7. It makes Delaware cool - a feat that had never been done before and has never been done since.



Party on!