Mother of the Bride: Exes Confesses Their Messes

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The worst thing rom-coms do is bring exes back together. Mother of the Bride, starring Brooke Shields and Bejamin Bratt, is one of those exes confesses their messes disaster. The tropical destination this time around is Thailand. The misunderstandings are the same. The situations are the same. The arguing the same. The canoodling the same. And if you are getting frustrated and irritated about all the sameness, imagine what I felt watching this until the end.

If you’re gay you’ll probably love this. There are shirtless well muscled male bodies all over. Benjamin Bratt, who is 60, looks surprisingly buff. That gay Star Trek Discovery doctor, the one who is always understanding and smiling, is here too. He is less built than Bratt, but still smiling and gay. The woman are skinny and pretty neutral with the facial expressions. In fact all of them just mirror whatever comes across Brooke Shields’ face. Next to Bratt, Shields comes off looking uneven- nice in the moonlight, awful in the sunlight, just ok looking in enclosed civilized spaces. And what happened to her delightful bushy eyebrows? Nowhere to be seen here.

Shields acting is committed and angst- Bratt’s I’m there for the money loose. He’s not terrible, just one notch below where charm turns to smarm- smilingly annoyingly likeable. Mark Waters directed this. He also made the original talent loaded Mean Girls. I kept on wondering WTF happened to his talent. But then an all expense vacation in Thailand is kind of irresistible.