Not Satiric Enough
Written: Jun 01 '00
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Pros: Upbeat, some good laughs.
Cons: Not enough good laughs, given the meaty subject matter.
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| MaxSpades's Full Review: Tony N' Tina's Wedding |
Tony N' Tina's Wedding is a spoof of an Italian wedding, complete with church ceremony and reception (including a dinner of baked ziti). The casting was, for the most part, excellent, particularly the groom's father and grandmother and the bride's aunts. However, it wasn't played broadly enough--there were too few really big laughs--and parts of it were just plain flat, as it seemed to lapse into reality too much and fight itself. Overall, I had a decent time, but, given the meaty topic, the material could have worked a whole lot harder.
During the church ceremony, for instance, there were some fine moments of humor, and some cute interaction with the cast, as many audience members were greeted with hugs, as family ("I haven't seen you in years; you look great."). Then, however, there were two sections in which the audience was led in a supposedly-satiric-but-more-closer-to-serious hymn, and that was plain boring to me during the second singing.
The reception (at Vinny's Coliseum, across the street from the church) was also somewhat flat. There was dancing to good music from a pompadoured rock singer and his band, but, again, the jokes were too few.
There seemed to be a lot of young (early 20s), single women attending this show, so it may be that I'm too old and too jaded to appreciate a "good time."
Recommended:
Yes
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