49
Metascore
13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Time OutTime OutRice's style is pitched somewhere between Merchant Ivory and Wes Anderson, favoring shots of sad, pretty people looking bereft in elaborately elegant rooms. But it's Jones and Treadaway, both seething volcanoes trapped behind artfully pallid faces, who turn what could've been a candy-coated comedy of manners into a complex, melancholic farce.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeA sustained balancing act between dry upper-crust cynicism and pent-up passions, Donald Rice's Cheerful Weather for the Wedding maintains its uneasy stasis long enough to frustrate some romance-hungry viewers while tantalizing those for whom withheld pleasure is the whole point.
- 60New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanWith costumes taking precedence over character, the movie ultimately seems more concerned with atmosphere than action.
- 55The comic relief, an attempt to buoy the sinking feeling of Dolly and Joseph's difficulties, steals away the emotional weight of their story. The dominance of the madcap side of the film's split personality lays an airy veneer over Dolly and Joseph's woes, making them seem inconsequential - as unsubstantial as an observation about wedding-day weather.
- 50VarietyRob NelsonVarietyRob NelsonA costumer that's well named for being pleasant and conventional but little more.
- 50Village VoiceErnest HardyVillage VoiceErnest HardyThe costumes are gorgeous, and the settings are plush, but the acting is merely serviceable, and the film lacks either the wit or the energy of its predecessors. Long before it ends, you find yourself indifferent to the fate of the mismatched lovebirds or anyone else in the tale.
- 42The PlaylistCory EverettThe PlaylistCory EverettThe film may help "Downton Abbey" fanatics looking to kill a little time in that era but holds little cinematic appeal for the rest of us.
- 40The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenIf the movie had more courage, it would lay waste these people as hilariously as Robert Altman's film "A Wedding." But as its bad vibes accumulate, Cheerful Weather exhibits all the energy of a disgruntled wedding guest muttering complaints under his breath.
- 25Slant MagazineSlant MagazineThe Donald Rice film suffers most from an excessively blunt approach.