“We’re launching a competition to find the most original wedding in Britain. . . It’s a chance for them to live their dream and it’s a chance for us to exploit that.” --The film’s CONFETTI Magazine

Three outrageous fantasy weddings, two manic wedding planners and one grand prize. That’s what Britain’s leading fictional glamour-wedding magazine, Confetti, has in mind when its owner proudly announces a competition in which three happily-engaged couples will duke it out to create the most to-die-for wedding ceremony, each hoping to win a million-dollar mansion to start their new lives together. As he puts it: “Not everyone wants their wedding ruined by a gimmick . . . but some do.”

This mock documentary takes a sly, spontaneous and playful peek at the various aspects of human behavior under pressure.

As the competition kicks off, the tension is unbearable; the rivalry is cut-throat. The three couples competing include the tuneless Matt and Sam whose unfortunate wedding theme is Hollywood musicals; the hypercompetitive tennis duo Josef and Isabelle who believe it doesn’t matter how you play the game so as long as you win; and the nudists Michael and Joanna, the magazine owner’s top pick after a few cocktails, whose desire to wed in their birthday suits has everyone in an uproar. As each couple’s sweetly self-deluded dreams of wedding bliss careen out of control, the operative question becomes not so much “who will win?” as “will any of the couples survive?”

BOTTOM LINE

The movie is a reflection of our competitive “reality show” crazed culture. However, Sir William Van Horne reminds us that, “The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.” When life is about friendship and loving others, there is no need for the ugly side of competition. But, we all know this, right? If you do, go and enjoy the movie with someone you value as a loving friend and leave the competition thing on the screen.