License to Wed breaks new records!!
The cast of “License to Wed” are setting new records! For biggest box office bomb in history. License to Wed was released Wednesday with an estimated 2 million dollars. Transformers continues to rape the box office with $66 million dollars in 2 1/2 days.
License has quickly turned into a disaster of Lucky You proportions. Critics hate this movie, which stars Robin Williams, Mandy Moore and John Krasinski from NBC’s The Office. At last check, License to Wed was rated just 10 percent Fresh at Rotten Tomatoes, and reviews range from awful to cruel.
Some Reviews from the Film
-License to Wed is the worst idea for a studio comedy since last year’s equally dreadful Failure to Launch
-There’s bad, there’s awful and there’s horrible, and then somewhere beyond that, in its own Kingdom of Lousy — where all the milk curdles and the jokes aren’t funny — is “License to Wed,” the latest ghastly exercise starring Robin Williams.
-Comedies don’t get much lamer than License to Wed. Working from a flawed premise with characters lacking credibility and plot turns more moronic than funny, the movie flatlines in about 5 minutes.” — Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
-”[Robin] Williams has become a comedic glass ceiling, a black hole of laughs that guarantees every scene he’s in will make nails on a chalkboard sound appealing.” — Matt Pais, MetroMix.com
To look at License to Wed’s tracking, an easy comparable is Because I Said So, the Universal romantic comedy from February. Both films star Mandy Moore, both are rated PG-13, and they both feature a fifty-something co-star with multi-generational appeal (Diane Keaton in Because I Said So) and both films bombed in epic proportion style.
Numbers for Wednesday
1. Transformers (Dreamworks/Paramount) — $30 million [$39 million cume]
2. Ratatouille (Buena Vista) — $7.85 million [$62.4 million cume]
3. Live Free or Die Hard (20th Century Fox) — $4.6 million [$57.3 million cume]
4. Evan Almighty (Universal) — $2.11 million [$64.9 million cume]
5. License To Wed (Warner Bros) — $2.05 million [$2.05 million cume]
Source : ONTD
July 5th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Here’s an idea: don’t release a movie on a Wednesday. I didn’t know it was already out.We have plans to go this Friday, on what we thought was the opening.
July 5th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Here’s an idea. Mandy Moore should invest in real estate or something with the money she has made so far…she is the kiss of death for movies and I doubt she will get another film.
July 6th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Robin Williams doing his manic, let’s make another ‘dirty religous thing to please the liberals, but have cutsie people you care about in it.. again’ is a downer. Move on Robin.. and the other stars are awfully stoopid, like cows staring at a rusting spaceship crashed in their field contently chewing their cuds because it might be so bad and they know it.. can’t react, stop it nor even care that they are acting in a movie, just give me a paycheck and hope it’s a cult movie eventually? Haha. It’s so first try rehearsals at best..
July 6th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Mandy Moore called herself a mediocre singer and actress. Obviously the people who give her recording contracts and hire her for movies are slower to pick up on that fact.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Hooray! Maybe the cinematic powers that be will finally realize that Mandy Moore SUCKS and no one wants to see her “act”.
July 14th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
This movie was so horrible. John Krasinski even sucked. I think his personality translated better for the small screen. Mandy Moore was just going through the motions and Robin Williams was downright creepy and disgusting. One of the worst movies of all time!!