cruvent A tad bit depressing and dark for me, I kept hoping some of the characters would break free from their cynicism, angst, etc. What I liked most about this movie was the soundtrack. Although much of it was part of the scene and a distant, hardly audible stereo playing in the background, still it was very good.

Dave Don't waste your time or money-this one stinks really REALLY BADLY!! This film makes the Royal(flush it down the toilet)Tenenbaums look like a masterpiece!! The only reason I rented this smelly turd was because we live in the very town-East Quogue, where some of it was filmed...so naturally we had to check it out. Boy, what a mistake that was!! Can even remember having Main Street(Montauk Hwy) closed down for a day or two while they filmed-thanks Noah, the inconvenience and intrusion definitely wasn't worth it!! Plus they shot some other scenes nearby, I believe it might have been Red Creek-a really beautiful area-such a waste of some great scenery. I think I even stood behind the food crew on the "express" checkout line one morning at the local supermarket-I swear!! (buying what seemed like a half million dollars worth of food-at least ten cases of bottled water, must have been for Nicole's sustenance). I even saw the van as they loaded it up, I guess Hollywood has to make a big production out of everything. Sorry-I'm beginning to sound like this movie-haha. Anyway...This film pushed our patience, in the sense of "when is this movie going to start getting interesting". My wife and I unfortunately had to wait until nearly the end before the one scene that showcased our tiny town revealed itself. Ouch, what an agonizing wait. Even my wife thought this was painful to watch, and she gravitates towards these kind of flicks. Awful, AWFUL dialogue. Silly, banal bickering one minute, followed by seemingly hollow, half-hearted apologies and reconciliations the next. Over and OVER and OVER again-the whole movie was pretty much that. I'm not sure what Baumbach was thinking when he wrote the screenplay, and then directed this junk. Sure he had some success with "The Squid and the Whale"-which we both liked... But I guess he thinks he can just expand the wackiness-dysfunctional-kooky factor and sprinkle in some dull, laughless humor and voilà, he's got a viewable movie-well WRONG!! This movie tries too hard to be off-center, dysfunctional and wacky. I agree with other posters that while some people find these introspectives of nutjobs' lives amusing, most of us find them dull, boring and almost unlifelike. Main stream folks have their problems, but not like this.Want more? Really dopey dialogue throughout most of this film(did I just say that-well it's worth repeating), bad casting-read Jack Black, that Pais kid was rather pathetic too, horrible editing at times, several shots that just totally did not match up, hey that should never happen in this day and age, and a lousy plot... This film is just a total waste of time and space(on anyone's DVD shelf). Avoid this stinker at any cost!! Even a 99-cent rental!!!

MBunge This is one of those films that make you feel better about yourself. Not because it has some sort of bright, uplifting message, but because you're not as badly screwed up as the characters in this story.Nicole Kidman plays Margot, a spectacularly bad sister, wife and mother. After years of estrangement, she's decided to attend her sister Pauline's wedding at their family home. Margot's dragging her young son Claude (Zane Pais) along but is not accompanied by her husband, with whom she's building up another estrangement. Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a needy and unhappy woman who's caught up with an emotionally and socially stunted wannabe singer/painter/intellectual named Malcolm (Jack Black). Pauline has her own daughter, Ingrid (Flora Cross), who is one of those children who seem okay when they're young but will need massive amounts of therapy when older. The two sisters reconnect after years of not speaking,and the whole odd group has to deal with Pauline's weirdly barbaric neighbors, a missing dog, a tortured affair, a makeout session with a teenager and the fact that Margot doesn't approve of Pauline's wedding, Malcolm, her own marriage, Claude or even herself.This is a comedy but not one with a lot of jokes in it. It's supposed to be about the humor found in the awkward and uncomfortable places in real life, except Margot at the Wedding's "real life" is one where no one has any social filter on anything they say or do. Real people do say things which are funny at a distance in their unthinking selfishness or meanness, but they don't say such things every single time they open their mouths. If family members actually behaved the way these characters do all the time, they couldn't stand to be in the same state let alone the same room with each other. Writer/Director Nora Baumbach never treats the psychological and emotional warfare too seriously, though. While there are some allusions made to Margot and Pauline's terrible childhood, Baumbach never makes any real effort to examine or explain why these people behave this way. She is trying to be funny, not meaningful, and creates a distance that allows you to laugh at how terrible are these characters.The acting is quite good for the most part, with Kidman and Leigh forming a believably dysfunctional relationship as sisters. Jack Black, however, demonstrates in this film the difference between performing and acting. He can hit the individual notes in the character of Malcolm. He can be an envious slacker, emotionally overwrought, frightened and unintentionally funny, but he can't blend those things together. When you watch him, it's like a switch just flips and he performs whatever the script requires. He can't take all those parts and create a complete person out of them, the way Kidman and Leigh do.Margot at the Wedding is only about 90 minutes long and it's not at all sentimental, so if you'd like to have some mean-spirited amusement with characters you won't be asked to genuinely care about, you could certainly do worse than renting it.

imdeebea It may be the dumbest movie I have seen. It started off confusing. Then there was the scene where the kid tells mom he masturbated. The dog got away. Then he came back, after Jack Black admitted he was a pedophile while cutting down the tree. There was an unnecessary character, the daughter of someone, and she was nearly killed by that tree. Another dog was hit and nearly killed by a car. The crazy girl getting married said I love you, then she said I hate you. I love you. I hate you, and your sister and I talk behind your back. The adults spoke to the children like they were adults, which is not very believable. I lost precious time to this movie. I want it back. I just feel dirty now. My girlfriend says the guy made another movie, and I said he should have quit while he was ahead. Then she tells me the other movie came after this one! That is unbelievable. I don't see why actors would line up for these roles.