Wedding Wars

I'll premise this by saying that we, again, weren't expecting this to be Oscar material. We watched it for the gay theme.

Given the premise and the fact that it was a made for television movie, I won't even go into the many ridiculous scenes or pathetic developments.

Anyway, it was nice to see that the topic of legalizing same-sex marriage is finally, albeit slowly, entering the mainstream consciousness and that two actors who already work on other shows, and therefore didn't need this just for the money, agreed to star in a movie with such a topic.

Times have changed if a ladies' man like John Stamos agrees to play gay and repeatedly kisses another man (the gorgeous Sean Maher) on prime time.

The story is simple. Stamos is the (gay) wedding planner for his brother's impending marriage to the Governor's daughter, until the Governor, running for re-election, comes out against gay-marriage and calls for a constitutional amendment to ban it.

Stamos decides to go on strike to protest what he sees as a clear injustice: the fact that his brother can get married but he cannot. His stance, unexpectedly, gathers a lot of support (across the nation), further intensifying the animosity between him and his brother (the unbelievably hot Eric Dane).

Like I said, the movie has to be taken for what it is and overall isn't really so bad as much as improbable. It does have its share of stereotypes and doesn't try to hide them either, but it's watchable. Overall.

Grade: 5.5