Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon are rivals who crash each other's wedding parties in the unfunny Prime Video rom-com "You're Cordially Invited."
Are you with Reese Witherspoon or Will Ferrell? “You're Cordially Invited,” a new comedy directed by Nicholas Stoller, brings together two stars whose movie worlds are nearly as divided as wedding guests on separate sides of the aisle.
The most surprising thing about this by-the-numbers comedy, in fact, is that it comes to us from writer-director Nicholas Stoller. He updated Kermit & Co. so delightfully in “The Muppets,” tartly reconceived the revenge rom-com with “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” and scored on the small screen with both “Platonic” and the updated “Goosebumps.”
Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Neighbors, Bros) is one of Hollywood’s few reliable comedy directors, and though You’re Cordially Invited, which premieres Jan. 30 on Prime Video, won’t be remembered as his crowning clownish achievement,
"It's as funny a movie as you're going to see in terms of just letting loose and letting it rip," Ferrell said alongside his co-star at a London preview of the film.
Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell have teamed up for You're Cordially Invited on Prime Video, an outreous rom-com also featuring Geraldine Viswanathan, Jack McBrayer, Rory Scovel.
Synthetic as it all is, Nicholas Stoller’s romcom clears the watchability bar and hits an average yet amiable stride
Their characters deal with a major hitch as their family members get hitched in a consistently funny wedding comedy.
While Will Ferrell recalled that he once received an open invitation for an Indian wedding, Reese Witherspoon got a glimpse into one through Mira Nair's 2001 film Monsoon Wedding.
T he 2025 movie schedule continues to prove its impressive spread by introducing the long-overdue team-up of Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon, in You’re Cordially Invited. The
C onsidering the world has gone mad, this ought to be the ultimate era for chaos comedy: movies in which alligators are wrestled into bed, in which hoity-toity wedding guests get