Sickening...

I think this film is a hyperbolic version of the stress a father feels when his precious daughter is getting married and how you add to it by making things ridiculously Donald Trump-proportions expensive!

Things that come up in the film are antiquated. For example the whole notion that it's the bride's family's responsibility to...(well, Mrs. Banks got cut off when she was talking about the relatives flying in from Denmark on their dime so I'm wondering how much she was going to say they're supposed to pay for) pay for the wedding. Certainly by the 1990s, a family as rich as the McKenzies would not have offered to pitch in to help pay for the wedding as if they were just being helpful rather than "Well of course we're going to help pay for the wedding, our son is one of the people getting married!...oh and we're loaded!"

Another hyperbolic element must be the cost per head: $250/head. Seriously? And rather than trying to make things cheaper, they only talk about knock some people off their list? Come on!

Falling in the McKenzie's pool after grabbing the bank book and snooping around is incredibly immature.

The thing that bugs me the most is how the father of the bride gets completely left out of everything, not to mention going to the back of the line to wait for food. As if that would happen! As if the father would be completely forgotten throughout the reception. Stupid.

So yes, that last part really bothered me but I try to concentrate more on the sweet moments, like when he's reminiscing about her growing up years, how he selflessly gets Annie and Bryan back together, how she says she could never love anything more than the cappuccino maker her dad gives her after the in-laws bring over the car, the sweet little conversation they have the night before the wedding. That's the stuff to focus on.

Agreed.

The women in this film are post-women's lib. Men are not given any pride or confidence. That was the joy of being "King of the Castle." We actually had a say. What men say today means sh!t to women like Nina and Annie. Things have definitely changed since the days of Spencer Tracy in Father of the Bride. His wife, played by the lovely and beautiful Joan Bennett is so much more attractive to me than Diane Keaton. A man has to be into being dominated to find women like Nina or Annie sexy. Maybe George and Nina are hiding S&M equipment in their closet, and George has to dress up like The Gimp in Pulp Fiction.

I mean, was Nina paying her half of that wedding? She was the mother. No. George had to pay for both of them. He had to pay a sh!tload of money and like most modern, post-women's lib wives, Nina didn't insist that George receive the respect he deserves. In fact, she gives him sh!t for having a nervous breakdown... which isn't a surprise given the stress he alone was under.

This version was written and directed by women's lib feminists. You can tell by the hyphenated last names.

I agree. I think we see now why there are so many divorces in America. If the government is going to keep allowing women to mess up the hierarchy of the basic family, then men have no reason to stick around.

This is a hilarious thread, because it is full of "offended" angry guys who whine about how women should respect them when they deserve none of it.

Just so you know, a country that has a very high divorce rate is Russia, which is quite patriarchal society, so no, American women aren't "spoilt" by freedom. In fact, I do not understand how anyone could be "spoilt" for being free. Women have as much as men the right to speak their minds and live with whomever they wish. By the way, I'm not a westerner.