Review of The People We Hate at the Wedding

I didn't think this movie would stand a chance since it required an upfront exposition segment describing the contrived set-up of the wedding and why hostilities are brewing among the principal characters. However, after a while, the excessively honest one-liners started to land with acerbic precision, and I liked how the characters were exposed for their flaws and poor decisions. The cast headed by Allison Janney, Kristen Bell, and Ben Platt, is expert at executing physical comedy and delivering withering put-downs courtesy of the observant screenplay by Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin and Wendy Molyneux. Bell's and Platt's characters are pretty incorrigible, so this movie won't be for everyone.