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Father of the Bride

Sequel, Prequel, Limited Series, or All-Black Remake

Father of the Bride The Rewatchables

The panel first rejects a ten-episode remake, then accepts a well-funded continuation with the original couple as grandparents and Annie's family at the center.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:18:26Read transcript
  • The first answer to a ten-episode Netflix version is please no.
  • Affection for the family means even a flawed remake would still be watched.
  • The acceptable version would keep Steve Martin and Diane Keaton as grandparents while Kimberly Williams and George Newbern become the parents.
  • The panel insists on a real budget and full cast rather than another Zoom production.
  • The skeptical participant is fully persuaded in under ninety seconds.
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Father of the Bride

Apex Mountain

Father of the Bride The Rewatchables

Mainstream Steve Martin, Kimberly Williams, San Marino, father-daughter movies, and wedding movies receive apex cases; Diane Keaton, Nancy Meyers, and dads do not.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:04:35Read transcript
  • Steve Martin's late-1970s comedy peak is distinguished from a possible mainstream-dad peak beginning with this film.
  • The movie is argued to enable Martin's later Oscars-host and America's-dad roles.
  • Diane Keaton is rejected because Annie Hall and Something's Gotta Give offer stronger career peaks.
  • Kimberly Williams receives a yes based on her defining role.
  • Father-daughter movies receive an unqualified apex verdict.
  • San Marino receives an emphatic yes.
  • Dads receive a tentative but explicit probably-not verdict.
  • Wedding movies receive an apex case because this film builds an entire happy story around the wedding.
  • The film is credited with helping start a 1990s wave including Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Wedding Planner, and The Wedding Singer.
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Father of the Bride

What’s Aged the Best?

Father of the Bride The Rewatchables

Kieran Culkin, Kimberly Williams, San Marino, the basketball scene, the overwhelmed father, changing marriage norms, and the hot-dog arithmetic all receive praise.

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Approx. transcript time · 00:38:54Read transcript
  • Kieran Culkin's small reactions are newly funny because the child performance anticipates his later Roman Roy mannerisms.
  • The child performance plays the role simply and still nails the few kid-scene-stealing moments.
  • Kimberly Williams is delightful and immediately believable as Steve Martin's daughter.
  • Williams and Martin create father-daughter chemistry even in quiet basketball movement.
  • The movie defined Williams so strongly as Annie that the panel had difficulty imagining an obvious next role for her.
  • San Marino is praised as an unusually pleasant, beautiful Southern California setting.
  • The basketball scene is unusually convincing for a movie father-daughter game.
  • The montage shows enough continuous movement to suggest that Steve Martin made at least one trick shot himself.
  • An overwhelmed father struggling to afford a wedding remains a durable comic plot.
  • The wedding-planning escalation still feels accurate because small decisions rapidly add expense and complexity.
  • The film is presented as marking the baby-boomer generation's move away from countercultural ideas of marriage.
  • The hot-dog and bun mismatch remains relatable because mismatched package quantities still create needless arithmetic.
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Father of the Bride

Most Rewatchable Scene

Father of the Bride The Rewatchables

The opening monologue, Annie's marriage announcement, Brian's introduction, the guest-list cut, blender fight, and basketball montage are praised; the final choice is the family dinner where Annie announces her engagement.

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  • The opening direct-to-camera monologue works despite the panel's usual skepticism about narration because Steve Martin sells the writing.
  • The narration lets George express fears he cannot tell his family until the end.
  • Annie's marriage announcement is rewatchable for Steve Martin's horrified reaction to his twenty-two-year-old daughter getting engaged.
  • The flashback that replaces Annie with her seven-year-old self captures a parent's inability to see a child as an adult.
  • Diane Keaton's growing happiness during the announcement contrasts with Martin's panic and makes the family dynamic visible.
  • The dialogue about Paul Simon tickets and an independent communications consultant supplies specific comic detail.
  • Brian's first meeting with George works because the son-in-law is pleasant and unthreatening enough to leave the story centered on the family.
  • Cutting the wedding list is funny because its ruthless logic includes crossing off a guest who died.
  • Kimberly Williams sells Annie's disproportionate anger during the blender fight.
  • George helping resolve the blender fight shows that love for his daughter overrides his resistance to the marriage.
  • Steve Martin opening the feared gift box only to find a blender gives the scene a physical-comedy payoff.
  • The childhood montage into the basketball scene combines Darling with a sentimental father-daughter memory.
  • The final family-dinner choice establishes every central relationship and lets each actor react differently to the engagement.
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Father of the Bride

1991

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