Shotgun Wedding is an empty series of stale tropes. Exposition is obvious, characters are cliche, humor is shallow, drama is contrived, the premise is a weak gimmick, plot developments are convenient, payoff is minimal, relationships are flat, villains are silly, and resolution is rushed. Consequently, there's little emotion, tension, wit, or creativity to engage with. Coolidge is funny and Duhamel is trying, but the material has no sincerity for them to consistently build off of. Plus, Lopez seems more concerned with her image than her performance, coming across fairly stiff and distant. Ultimately, Shotgun Wedding is highly predictable and completely derivative.
Technically, Shotgun Wedding is lifelessly generic. Its cinematography is obvious and plain, sprinkling in overused tricks among forgettable visuals. The editing provides some smash montaging and an adequate runtime, but the butchered action is awkward and uninteresting. Its music is bland and the only interesting song (where the cast sings) distractingly comes out of nowhere. The effects are cheap, unconvincing, and sterile. Meanwhile, its sound is basic, its production design is unoriginal, and the cast is recognizable but underutilized. Overall, Shotgun Wedding is a boring, cheesy, clumsy, and sanitized rehash. It offers nothing of its own.
Writing: 2/10
Direction: 2/10
Cinematography: 4/10
Acting: 5/10
Editing: 4/10
Sound: 5/10
Score/Soundtrack: 4/10
Production Design: 5/10
Casting: 7/10
Effects: 4/10
Overall Score: 4.2/10
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