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Rachel Getting Married Movie Review

*Even though this comes out on DVD today, this review stems from the fact I saw this in the theater on Saturday, unaware of the proximity to its home release. No matter, I sure as hell wasn’t about to see Watchmen.

Rachel Getting Married is a film that entirely delivers for lovers of nuance. It follows Kim (Anne Hathaway) as she returns home from her latest stint in rehab to attend her sister Rachel’s wedding. There are parts where you’ll feel as if you’re the date of a member of the wedding party, able to sit unnoticed and take all of it in as Kim bares her soul across the days and nights leading up to the nuptial. Other times you’ll be a fly on the wall that gets to see things that Kim herself might not be ready to open up to even when she’s alone.

One of the most surprising things about the film that catches the viewer off guard with neither cheap ploys nor lazy foreshadowing is the massive amount of CG it features. It’s simply everywhere, especially after the film gets the initial pleasantries out of the way. Rachel Getting Married without a doubt features more CG than Kung Fu Panda, Iron Man, and WALL-E combined. It’s true; this thing is loaded to the brim with crying girls.

The film is also no lightweight when it comes to explosions. Do you remember the very first shot in The Dark Knight that was just a giant, dark explosion that filled the screen where you could barely make out the Batman symbol? Multiply that by Terminator 2 and you’ll begin to get a feel for Rachel Getting Married’s emotional explosions. I’m 92% certain that during the scene when Kim went to speak to her mom the night before the wedding I saw Michael Bay’s reflection in a mirror.

Taking into account the nuance, CG and explosions, the sum of these parts creates a tour de force of beautifully restrained filmmaking that exudes a brutal honesty as demonstrated by a most deservedly Academy Award nominee in Anne Hathaway.

Final Score: 4/5 Aaron Pierces