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MOVIE REVIEW Audiences should avoid marking calendars for Wedding Date’ drivel “THE WEDDING DATE” ★ out of ☆☆☆☆☆ By MARJORIE RIDDLE THE GAMECOCK “Die Vfedding Date" bcres with its predictable, lacking plot and pathetically mdendevelrped characters. The rcmaitic ocmedy starring Debra Messing and Denmot Milrcn^ will have viewers checking their watches to see hew mrh lenger th^ hae to sit in the theater ad tdlaate this ercpty flick. ftesdrg stars as Rt Ellis, a single aid successful wcnan living in Naw Ycrk who hires Milrcn^'s character, Nick Maoer, to be her date fcr her sister's Icncfcn weeding. Kat finds Nick after seeing a macpziiie article he wrote about being a male eexrt. Not having seen ha: fanily &z two jeers, die arrives weith Nick, ad her fatdly beooiES instantaneously anitten aer her charming, cfedlidily handsale "boyfriend." He sippcsed twist is thet Yet is still pining cuer her femes: fiance Jeffrqr, vhctn de dated fcr saen jears. Jeffry also heppHE to be the best man in the watting. ihe weak plot goes thrarji the usual watting oelefcrations, indicting the bachelor end bachekrette parties and pre-wedding pacnics, and most of the erats are, frenkLy, iraotful. Suifaily Nick reali2ES his jcb as eaxrt mi^it be turning into sanething more tien business as he and Kat begin leridng at each other in new aid affecticnabswetys. Pb fanily sarets epill out — ip intil the "I cfcs" — Kat has to ocne to hems with her pest with Jeffry and 1^ dsekping feeiincp fir: Nick. In Milton's roile as Nick, he is a mirror image of the character he pdajed in 'Tty Best Friend's wadding." Still charming, still gorgeous, but the exact sate guy — ally this time, he's basically a nale pied .itntp. Nick arri rat's agreaiait initially is that Nick will crily be ha: cfcbe fix the wedhng, but afba: a disarsim cf hcwmrh extra he charges fix sex and maty alcrhnlic beieragas laber, Nick prrtyesHES into rat's "callbcy." Somehow the concept was more appealing ad less appalling in 'Hretty Woman." Massing should keep her comedic talent sharp fix teladrdm, becase de was dry, awkward and downright Ixmxlfiss thrarjicut the majcrity cf this mode. The film is set fix the dirat.im in Icndon, and most of the cast maibers heue a British accent. Howewsr, out of all cf rat's fanily — ha: sista:, ha: sbpfalher and shi the slirftt aooait efrihited by her nether — rat is the chLy one without the accent. Has is uBplainsd and UBettling— it is as if rat was separated fran her fanily since birth, not jest the stated two ifflts. Hie vast part about the spxadic and holey plot is tie relatimtiiip between Kat and Nick. Cfcmxious and two-dimensional, Kat begins warning ever the omsumate Nick, but the audience wonders vfcy, because he, the paideaxrt, is too gxd for ter. Nick suddenly begins locking at her in a different- nerrer, but viewers hare no irfea vhy. There is no allusion to, ncr dewing cf, wty this shift in their affecUos ftr me antis: occurs. Maries insist an lae being a few exfiaged glanes and sevsal ds^g anrersatiens ever tin course of nae days, and "The Wedding Date" is ro exception. Chfertirately, the fernula tails miserably beceuse this pipetted lore is in no bediseble cr heartening. If noriegcas wait a simsely rcnaitic and truly cntedic film, th^r will tare to lock elsewhere than 'The Wfedding Date." Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockfeatures@gwm.sc.edu PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney star in “The Wedding Date.” CONCERT REVIEW Rogue Wave barrels into Columbia Show at New Brookland Tavern ★★★ out of ☆☆☆☆☆ By JORDAN REDMOND THE GAMECOCK Reputable indie-rrxk has been hard to crae by lately atarrl the* parts. 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