Happy Ever Afters

Death at a Funeral took a family ceremony generally treated with hushed reverence and transmogrified it into thudding farce. Happy Ever Afters repeats the trick with weddings: in this case, two of them, which, hilariously, have their receptions in the same hotel on the same day! Sides are doubtless splitting already, but I should warn you that this is not the predicted Bridezilla smackdown, but an unconvincing romcom in which initially bristling groom Tom Riley and rival bride Sally Hawkins (who's agreed to a green card arrangement to earn the money to stave off eviction) gradually bond over shattered dreams and old cake. Hawkins's wry intelligence keeps things bearable, but this is still fairly grating last-dance stuff.