Shotgun Wedding’ movie review 

Shotgun Wedding’ movie review: Jennifer Lopez, Josh Duhamel stuck in a dreadful dud

This rom-com lives in its own special cell of hell, where horrible movies go to die

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Just when you thought 2023 was going to be a good year at the movies, with a prehistoric shark for company,

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comes Shotgun Wedding. It is not even the kind of existentially bad film that prompts you to debate your place in the world

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Shotgun Wedding is just dreadful in a boring, half-hearted way. It is even more appalling to watch JLo stuck in such a demeaning exercise.

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Darcy (Lopez) and Tom (Josh Duhamel) are getting married in a beautiful island in the Philippines

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Like all weddings, there is stuff to navigate despite the best efforts of the manager,

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Marge (Selena Tan from Crazy Rich Asians). Darcy does not want her super-rich dad,

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(Cheech Marin) to pay for it and Tom wants to give Darcy the perfect wedding, while proving to his in-laws that he is the right man for their baby girl.

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