The wedding planner - 2001

A nice, funny comedy for the first half, but very stupid the second half.
At the beginning it's nice to know Mary Fiore (Jennifer Lopez), a successful wedding planner, very very good in what she does but alone, at home. One day she has a little accident and is saved by Steve Edison (Matthew McConaughey) . They go out one night, dance together and have a lovely evening. For three days she keeps smiling like an idiot, a sure universal sign that she's found someone she likes, until she learns that Steve is the groom of the wedding she's about to plan. What a coincidence!
I so didn't like his face when she found out. She looked surprised and shocked, he looked like he was having fun at her expenses, but it makes no sense.
They go on with the wedding plan and the bride Fran Donolly (Bridgette Wilson-Sampras) even leaves them alone for a week! They therefore spend a lot of time together to plan everything, during which time they break a statue with no consequences, apparently, then they meet her ex-fiancée now married to the woman he was caught making love to shortly before his wedding with Mary, so Mary gets drunk and Steve takes her home and they feel it again, that feeling they felt that night, but things have changed, he's about to get married and Mary knows Fran, which is a problem because Fran is actually a nice girl, really a lovely person despite her being so rich, so nothing happens .
It was a nice film up to this point, then it went down. Mary accepts to marry Massimo, even if she knows she doesn't love him. A few minutes before the ceremony Steve makes a stupid speech to Fran, something like 'why do you want to marry me? Do you really want to? Because we're not the same people we were when we were at school together, we've changed, but if you say you want it I'll come and marry you' which is such a load of crap, it's unbelievable. The 'asking her' hoping to be dumped so he can go looking for Mary with a clear conscience; the 'we've changed'  as if this meant anything: everyone changes after twenty years, that's normal, but it doesn't necessarily mean they stop loving who they loved before, I've even heard of people being together for forty years and more!
The worst of all: the 'if you want it I'll marry you' which sounds to me like a subtle trick, he hopes she doesn't want to, but what about if she says yes? You'll marry her even if you love another woman? Is this what you're saying? Or maybe at that point you'll go back on your word saying 'actually, you know what? I don't want to, sorry' ??
I know they needed a way to make Fran leave him because she was a nice girl and we didn't want to break her heart, but this way is stupid.
When Mary's wedding is called off, already at the altar, she goes away alone while Massimo and her father stay there for no reason other then be there when Steve comes to tell her he's not married, so Steve finds them there and Massimo told him 'we didn't get married because I'm not the right one, you're the right one, and I would hate to be an obstacle between Mary and her true love' or something like that. I mean, come on! Seriously? He's dumped at the altar then he goes to his 'rival' saying 'she loves you, not me' then he even takes him to her on his vespa? Who would do that?  (No doubt they've seen Roman Holidays too and know that every Italian in the world has a vespa... sigh).
Finally when Steve finds her he obviously has already on his face the smile of the winner, knowing that she loves him, and when Mary sees him she talks about candy instead of asking right away : what are you doing here on your wedding night? as if this wasn't the first question to ask. She gets there eventually, quietly, undirectly, asking where is Fran. No, I didn't like this ending.
The two of them ending up together was rather obvious, of course, but it's the way they do it that I don't like.
I didn't like how he behaved all along. He went out with her while he was about to marry another woman, then he didn't have the nerve to clear the situation, but managed to be dumped by her, because all along he was sure that Mary was in love with him and he wasn't risking anything.
Not at all all that romantic, in my opinion. Nope.