Stars: 4/5 ⭐️So, Father of the Bride is a self-explanatory movie, as the movie is about the father of the bride, Billy, played by Andy Garcia, as he's getting divorced from his wife, Ingrid, played by Gloria Estefan, but they are not able to say their news yet, because their daughter, Sofia, played by Adria Arjona, beats them to the punch, saying that she got engaged and wants to have the wedding in a month, which is crazy, but it's pulled off. Also, in the beginning, Billy is trying to keep the news from Sofia, and his other daughter, Cora, played by Isabela Merced, who wants to be her own boss as a dressmaker, where she actually gets her shot doing the dresses for Sofia and the bridesmaids, which I thought was a crazy ask for someone to do in one month, cause it was like 5 unique dresses, with one of them being a wedding dress, so that's kinda crazy. Also, it seems like Cora might have been into women because there were little things about how she was talking to this woman, Vanessa, played by Ana Fabrega, throughout the movie, with Billy commenting at the wedding that he likes Vanessa, so maybe so, maybe not, but if so, I liked it, because these pieces of representation where the character's sexuality isn't their personality are good, but obviously I would love to see queer characters as the main characters, especially in these types of family-friendly movies. Also, many people agreed online that they were coded as such, so I wasn't seeing things, but for all we know the writer could just leave us on the fence about it as many filmmakers do. But then we meet the soon-to-be husband, Adán, played by Diego Boneta, who is the son of one of the richest people in Mexico, where his dad shadows Billy by a bunch, which Billy hates, since he prides himself on going from nothing to looking like he's in the one percent, and Adán's dad is like in the one percent of the one percent. Also with Adán's family, the dad has remarried someone who's like in her twenties, so very untraditional, which is exactly what Billy doesn't want. And the wedding planner is this really unconventional woman, with the stereotypical gay male sidekick, Kyler, and the two are funny enough to get away with the stereotypes going on, although the girl, Natalie, played by Chloe Fineman, leans into the stereotype of the fake woke woman, which probably happens a lot, to get more business, although she was very funny for sure. So lots of drama, and lots of conflicts, although it's all light since it's obviously a family-friendly movie, which I guess smashed at-home streaming records, or something along those lines, which makes sense because it stays in the family-friendly fun lane. Also, I haven't seen the original, but, I'm assuming the movie stays along the lines of the older one, but it probably diverges when it comes to Cuban and Mexican wedding traditions, as Billy and his family are Cuban, and Adán's family is from Mexico, which I should say is where Adán and Sofia are going after they get married, and have their honeymoon, which Billy also doesn't like, because he feels like his family is floating away from him, with the divorce, and now Sofia being in Mexico, when she was in New York, as she was attending NYU Law, then working at a law firm there, where she met Adán, as they surprisingly worked in the same building without either of them realizing it. And with moving to Mexico, Adán and Sofia plan to work at a non-profit firm, which Sofia wanted to do because she wanted to help people, although Billy thought it was Adán who wanted to move, it was actually Sofia who wanted to move back, and Adán is just following her instead, as he loves his New York life. And there are so many complications with the wedding, with having Cora and Sofia find out about Billy and Ingrid's divorce in front of everyone, which was quite shocking, but the ending I think was great. Sofia gets the wedding that she always wanted, and the door is left open with Ingrid and Billy having accepted each other, and where they are in the state of their lives and their marriage.
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