The Wedding Singer Movie Review: Why You Should Watch This Romance Film?

The Wedding Singer 1998 (#ad) American romantic comedy film is about the title character whose name is Robbie Hart (played by Adam Sandler). He becomes understandably depressed after he's left by the one who supposedly loves him.

He meets a charming and beautiful waitress named Julia Sullivan (played by Drew Barrymore). She may be the right one for him if they manage to get past the obstacles in their way.

The Wedding Singer is funny and romantic

This film isn’t a comedy in that you won’t be laughing out loud at regular intervals, but there are a number of pretty amusing scenes that can bring a smile to your face. The Wedding Singer can be described as sweet, romantic and even heartwarming.

The romance between the 2 main characters is developed in a believable and realistic way. They fall in love gradually. They don’t suddenly develop feelings for each other in the very first moment that they look into each other’s eyes.

Even the supporting characters (like Rosie (played by Ellen Albertini Dow)) make the film more interesting and amusing. Some of these minor characters can be quite adorable as they add more depth to the scenes that they appear in.

Misunderstanding scene is believable

There’s a misunderstanding scene between the 2 main characters (the part where Robbie goes to talk to Julia, but isn’t able to because of what he sees) that is done in a way that doesn’t seem contrived.

Airplane scene is enjoyable

Some scenes (like the airplane scene) might come across as unbelievable and yet it doesn’t detract from the story as these just make the movie much more enjoyable, amusing and touching.

Some characters are unlikable and horrible for plot convenience

However, The Wedding Singer isn’t without its flaws. The main characters were involved with other people even before they met. Of course, it’s a given that these people are not the right ones for them.

But the film should not have turned these people into unlikable characters just to get Robbie and Julia to leave them and get together instead.

It’s perfectly possible to ensure that the protagonists end up together instead of with their supposed significant others without giving those people a nasty and bad personality.

Making these people horrible and mean just makes parts of the movie unbelievable and unrealistic because it makes viewers wonder why and how Robbie and Julia could have gotten involved with these kinds of people in the first place.

Nonetheless, regardless of these flaws, the movie is still pretty good and it’s something that you can choose to watch if you’re looking for something romantic and heartwarming and yet with enough amusing scenes that can make you grin or smile.

Your thoughts and opinions

What do you think about all this? Feel free and welcome to share your thoughts and opinions by leaving a message in the comments section.

*Notes:
- Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki based on the image by Rusembell (CC:BY) from deviantArt
- Couple in the image is meant to represent Robbie and Julia
- Second pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
- YouTube video features a scene from The Wedding Singer

How The Wedding Singer Movie Failed To Make Glenn Likable?

(*Warning for possible spoilers for The Wedding Singer 1998 American romantic comedy film)

The Wedding Singer (#ad) is about 2 people who thought they’d found the love of their lives, but they eventually end up getting together due to some circumstances.

How can Julia fall in love with The Wedding Singer if she’s engaged to Glenn?

Julia Sullivan (played by Drew Barrymore), the main female character, is engaged to be married to this guy named Glenn Gulia (played by Matthew Glave).

The moment we saw her and Robbie Hart (played by Adam Sandler), the title character, meet, we can already tell that they’ll eventually end up together. The question now is how Julia can fall in love with Robbie even though she was all set to get married to Glenn.

Don’t turn Glenn into an evil character for plot purposes

The challenge for The Wedding Singer is not turning Glenn into a horrible and unlikable person just to give Julia a reason for leaving him and choosing Robbie instead.

In another article, I talked about how and why the movie didn’t succeed in that challenge. But is it really impossible to keep Glenn a fairly likable character while still getting Julia and Robbie to fall for each other?

In the beginning, Glenn wasn’t a bad character

The answer is no, and, actually, The Wedding Singer was already showing that it can do that, which is why it’s unfortunate that it had to change its course and turn Glenn into a cheating, selfish, and horrible person just to get him out of the picture.

It’s okay if you’re not yet ready to get married

For example, when Glenn said something along the lines of having to marry women in order to stay with them, that could be interpreted or seen as him simply not being ready for marriage yet.

That could also explain why he proposed to Julia but didn’t set a date for their wedding yet. There’s nothing wrong with that since it’s understandable that some people need more time before they can be ready for married life since, after all, this is a life-changing decision.

How Glenn showed that he really loves Julia?

When Glenn agreed to the kind of wedding that Julia wanted, instead of just having the two of them go to Las Vegas like he wanted, because that was what would make his fiancée happy, it showed that he does love her and care about her.

This particular scene showed him being understanding, considerate, and unselfish as he considered Sullivan’s feelings and made a decision that would make her happy.

Wedding preparations

It was understandable and believable for Glenn to not be all that interested or into planning weddings, even his own, because there are people who can find this a daunting task and would really rather let others handle it for them.

But the fact that he didn’t help Julia with the wedding preparations even though he knew it would make her happy could be a sign that he’s just not that into her. After all, if he really loved her, it could be argued that he’d do things that he might not want to do just because he knows it will make her happy.

Julia and Glenn are incompatible

These kinds of things can already help show that Julia and Glenn are just not that compatible with each other. If The Wedding Singer continued to show us scenes that conveyed the incompatibility of the two with each other or that they’re much too different to be together, then it can easily make the audience believe that Julia falls out of love for Glenn and starts falling for Robbie instead.

All that can be achieved without having to turn Glenn into a cheating, unlikable, and generally horrible person. He didn’t need to undergo a complete personality makeover just to give Julia a reason not to love him anymore. Because if Glenn was that kind of mean and nasty person, then what reason did Julia have for falling in love with him in the first place?

Your thoughts and opinions

What do you think about all this? Feel free and welcome to share your thoughts and opinions by leaving a message in the comments section below.

*Notes:
- Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki (CC:BY-SA) based on the image by CoDLia (CC:BY-SA) from deviantArt
- Image is meant to represent Julia and Glenn since the figures appear to be a couple and yet they don’t seem to be all that close considering how they’re not really looking at each other
- Second pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
- YouTube video features a scene from The Wedding Singer
- This was previously published elsewhere

Reasons Why The Wedding Singer Movie Is Believable And Realistic

(Warning for possible spoilers for The Wedding Singer 1998 American romantic comedy film, which is about a guy who is looking for love after his heart is broken)

Passage of time

One of the things that I liked about the The Wedding Singer (#ad) movie was the way that it handled the passage of time. It was able to make the events that transpired seem realistic and believable because of the way that it showed the audience how much time passed.

How long should depression last?

For instance, Robbie Hart (played by Adam Sandler), the title character, was very depressed when his fiancée, Linda (played by Angela Featherstone), didn’t show up at their wedding. As a result, he didn’t act like his usual self for quite a while. And that’s a good thing because this makes the story seem believable and realistic.

It’s great that Robbie didn’t suddenly get over his depression and his misery at having Linda leave him. Instead, it took him several days before he started being his usual self again. Even then, there were still traces of how he felt when the incident in question happened.

The Wedding Singer has a believable love story

Another thing that makes this film commendable in terms of the passage of time was how Robbie and Julia Sullivan (played by Drew Barrymore), the main female character, didn’t suddenly fall in love with each other.

Instead, this happened gradually. They started out as friends, and, as they got to know each other, they became closer until they really started falling in love.

That made their romance believable and realistic because Robbie was still trying to get over his failed relationship with Linda so it wouldn’t be right for him to just suddenly fall for someone else so soon after he’d just been dumped.

As for Julia, she was currently engaged to this guy named Glenn Gulia (played by Matthew Glave) so it wouldn’t be right for her to suddenly fall in love with someone else.

After all, why else would she agree to marry Glenn if she didn’t have feelings for him, right? So it was important to show how Robbie was slowly getting over Linda and how Julia was slowly falling out of love for Glenn before the 2 of them could end up together.


*Notes:
- Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki based on the image by Rusembell (CC:BY) from deviantArt
- Image is meant to represent the 2 main characters in The Wedding Singer movie, Robbie and Julia
- Second pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
- YouTube video features a scene from the aforementioned film
- This was previously published elsewhere

Reasons To Like The Romance In The Wedding Singer Movie

(*Warning for possible spoilers for The Wedding Singer 1998 American romantic comedy film)

The Wedding Singer (#ad) is a love story between two people who are unable to find the love and happiness that they seek with their supposed significant others so they try to find it elsewhere.

The main characters will become a couple in the end

The moment that we were introduced to the two main characters, Robbie Hart (played by Adam Sandler) and Julia Sullivan (played by Drew Barrymore), I knew that they were going to end up together. It didn’t matter that we just found out that Robbie was about to get married and that Julia was engaged.

Somehow, you just know that the two were going to fall in love. The question now was just how the plot would bring those two together while the challenge was making their romance believable and realistic.

The Wedding Singer love story is believable

The film did a pretty okay job with that actually. The 2 didn’t fall in love all of a sudden or right away, which was only right since they were still currently involved with other people.

When Robbie and his fiancée, Linda (played by Angela Featherstone), broke up, he didn’t suddenly fall in love with Julia right away. Understandably, he was depressed about what happened and he wasn’t ready to fall in love yet.

He needed time to get over what he just experienced. And Sullivan needed time to fall out of love with her fiancé, Glenn Gulia (played by Matthew Glave), before she can fall in love with the wedding singer.

Get to know each other first before falling in love

The 2 started out as friends. I like how the movie showed them taking the time to get to know each other. We saw scenes of them hanging out and spending time together. These scenes made it easy to see how and why they began to fall in love with each other.

Robbie was looking for something or someone to fill the hole that Linda made when she left him while Julia was looking for someone to help her plan her wedding until she realized that the guy she was marrying wasn’t the right one for her.

The Wedding Singer was able to show the passage of time in a believable and realistic manner so that it didn’t seem like Robbie and Julia wanted to get together so soon after they just met.

There was that initial attraction, but the way that they fell in love was a gradual thing that took time to blossom and be nurtured into something special and wonderful between the two of them. What do you think about the romance between these two?

*Notes:
- Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki (CC:BY-SA) based on the image by CoDLia (CC:BY-SA) from deviantArt
- Image is meant to represent Robbie and Julia
- Second pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
- YouTube video features a scene from The Wedding Singer

How The Wedding Singer Movie Makes You Believe In True Love And Happily Ever After?

(*Warning for possible spoilers for The Wedding Singer 1998 American romantic comedy film)

The Wedding Singer (#ad) is about this guy who gets his heart broken, but who eventually meets someone that makes him happy and that he wants to spend the rest of his life with.

The Wedding Singer is pretty funny

The Wedding Singer isn’t really a comedy, that is to say, it’s not something that will make you laugh every other scene or at regular intervals, but it does have some pretty amusing scenes that, though it might not make you laugh out loud, can bring a smile to your face.

Who is Rosie?

One of the characters that does a really good job of making you smile is Rosie (played by Ellen Albertini Dow). She’s really quite adorable and amusing, so much so that every scene she appears in can really make you grin.

She’s a friend of the title character named Robbie Hart (played by Adam Sandler). She may be old, but she’s still so energetic and lively and even feisty. She takes singing lessons from Robbie so she can sing for her husband during their 50^th wedding anniversary.

Rosie will make you smile

Rosie’s appearances in The Wedding Singer may be meant to get the audience to crack a smile (like when she puts meatballs on Robbie’s bare hands or pretty much anytime she opens her mouths and talks, really), but, much more than being so adorably amusing, I found her character to also be really sweet and heartwarming.

It’s in the way that she took the effort and the time to learn how to sing for her wedding anniversary. This really shows that she’s very happily married and that she really loves her husband very much.

True love is possible as The Wedding Singer shows

And that’s so sweet and heartwarming because Rosie and her husband show that it’s possible for a couple to stay together through thick and thin. They can grow old and yet still live happily together.

The couple serves as a very good example for Robbie and Julia Sullivan (played by Drew Barrymore), the main female character and Robbie’s love interest.

Don’t you want to grow old with the one you love?

This is why the song that Robbie sings for Julia about wanting to grow old with her is even more meaningful and poignant because isn’t that what most people would want?

Wouldn’t they want someone they can spend the rest of their life with and who would still love them and want to be with them even if they don’t look young and beautiful anymore?

Some might think that such a thing isn’t possible, but Rosie and her husband prove these people wrong as they defy the odds and remain happily married no matter what.

*Notes:
- Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki (CC:BY-SA) based on the image by CoDLia (CC:BY-SA) from deviantArt
- Image is meant to symbolize Rosie and her husband because the couple in said image seem really close and look like they really love each other very much
- Second pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
- YouTube video features a scene from The Wedding Singer

The Wedding Singer Movie: 1 Way To Prove You Really Love Someone

(*Warning for possible spoilers for The Wedding Singer 1998 American romantic comedy film)

The Wedding Singer (#ad) is about 2 people who are missing something in their lives and get their hearts broken. Can they find the happiness and love that they seek with each other?

A believable misunderstanding?

Some movies or books have scenes wherein characters have a misunderstanding and they end up fighting or not talking to each other because of it.

Sometimes, such scenes can be done in a way that make them believable, but at other times, such incidents aren’t done well at all, so much so that you might end up questioning the event and wanting to know why things were done that way instead of some other way.

Misunderstanding scene in The Wedding Singer

A misunderstanding also occurs in The Wedding Singer movie, but this is done in a believable manner.

When Robbie Hart (played by Adam Sandler), the title character, goes to see Julia Sullivan (played by Drew Barrymore), the main female character, to talk to her and tell her that he loves her, he catches a glimpse of her from her window.

She’s in her wedding dress and she looks so happy that it really seems as if she’s talking to someone, presumably her fiancé named Glenn Gulia (played by Matthew Glave).

As soon as Robbie sees that, he leaves, not bothering to try and talk to Julia because he sees how happy she is and he doesn’t want to ruin that.

But this is all one big misunderstanding because he got it all wrong. Julia is happy, but it’s because of Robbie and not Glenn. She is talking to someone, but that’s just her reflection in the mirror.

Reasons why this scene in The Wedding Singer is believable

With this incident, some might feel frustrated that the 2 didn’t end up talking and settling things between them at this point in the film.

And some might think that the wedding singer should have gone to see Julia anyway and should have tried talking to her so he could find out about the misunderstanding and be able to clear things up between them.

However, Robbie deciding against talking to Julia Sullivan in this scene is actually believable because this part helps to show just how much he really loves her.

He loves her enough to let her go, so when he saw how happy she was. He didn’t want to destroy that happiness or intrude in what appeared to be a very happy and joyous moment for her.

If he’d gone to talk to her anyway even after seeing such a scene, it would have shown and indicated that he was being selfish and that he was only thinking about himself and that he didn’t care if Julia got hurt or not. What do you think about this?

*Notes:
- Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki based on the image by Rusembell (CC:BY) from deviantArt
- Image is meant to represent the main couple in The Wedding Singer, Robbie and Julia
- Second pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
- YouTube video features a scene from the aforementioned movie

What's Wrong With Robbie Hart Trying To Apply For A Job In The Wedding Singer Movie?

(Warning for possible spoilers for The Wedding Singer (#ad) 1998 American romantic comedy film, which is about this guy who is heartbroken because of something that happened to him. He searches for love and happiness, but will he find what he’s looking for?)

The proper way to search for a job

When you’re looking for a job, do you stop trying to apply when the first place you go to rejects you? Or do you keep on trying, looking into other places where you might be able to find a job?

The Wedding Singer tries and fails to get a job

One of the scenes in The Wedding Singer movie involves Robbie Hart (played by Adam Sandler), the title character, trying to get a job. Since he doesn’t really have any experience with this, he understandably fails the job interview.

Of course, that didn’t stop him from trying to talk the guy who interviewed him into giving him the job anyway or at least giving him some business cards.

Did The Wedding Singer really try his best to find a job?

After that scene though, I had to wonder if that was the only place where Robbie tried to get a job. If that’s the case, I have to wonder why he didn’t bother trying to get a job elsewhere.

Sometimes, one might get lucky enough to be able to get a job at the very first place that they apply to. But, at other times, one might need to apply to a lot of different places before they can get a job.

So, if Robbie was really determined to get a job and earn some big money to impress Julia Sullivan (played by Drew Barrymore), the girl whom he likes and loves, then why did he give up so easily after just one failure?

Why did he just go back home without trying out other places? Or is it that he did try other places but that he just didn’t get jobs there either?

This scene with Robbie trying to get a job and being interviewed seems to have been done only for comic relief purposes since said incident was kind of funny and this job thing isn’t really mentioned ever again (it’s pretty much forgotten in favor of other scenes) as the movie focuses more on other things. What do you think about it?


*Notes:
- Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki based on the image by Anzel-X (CC:BY) from deviantArt
- Image is meant to represent Robbie and Julia, the 2 main characters in The Wedding Singer
- Second pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
- YouTube video features a scene from the aforementioned movie

The Wedding Singer Movie: Why It's Not Out Of Character For Robbie To Be Depressed?

(Warning for possible spoilers for The Wedding Singer (#ad) 1998 American romantic comedy film, which is about this guy who has his heart broken, but, in the end, he finds what he’s looking for to make him happy)

Also known as, "How should a depressed character act?"

Who is The Wedding Singer?

When this film introduces us to Robbie Hart (played by Adam Sandler), the wedding singer, we can immediately see what kind of person he is. He’s a nice and cheery guy.

He makes people laugh and be happy, bringing joy to the people he sings for and talks to especially at the weddings that he attends.

In the very first wedding scene that we saw, Robbie was able to make sure the newlyweds didn’t end up fighting after the groom’s best man said inappropriate things.

He even managed to cheer up a sad Julia Sullivan (played by Drew Barrymore), the main female character, who worked as a waitress at said wedding.

How The Wedding Singer becomes depressed?

Things change when Robbie Hart is stood up at the altar and left by his fiancée, Linda (played by Angela Featherstone). He becomes very sad and depressed, which is completely understandable considering what happened to him.

Robbie’s actions reflect how depressed he really is

It’s interesting to note the striking differences at the beginning of the film before Robbie’s wedding and the part of the movie after the wedding scene where Linda doesn’t show up.

It’s like Robbie’s character and personality undergoes a complete makeover with how different he acts now. He sulks and mopes and lies around in bed all day, refusing to go to work for quite a while.

Then, when he does go to work, he manages to annoy and frustrate the people that he sings for, practically ruining the wedding reception of a couple. He sings songs that reflect how sad and depressed and miserable he feels (like saying that "love stinks").

At first glance, some might get the impression that this is out of character (OOC) for him, that he’s not acting like himself at all and that’s not how he should be acting.

While it is true that he isn’t acting like how he usually does, in this case, it’s not a sign of The Wedding Singer being OOC. It’s because of what he has experienced and what had happened to him that made him act this way.

When he started recovering and trying to move on from the incident in question, Robbie also started acting like his usual self again.


*Notes:
- Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki (CC:BY-SA) based on the image by CoDLia (CC:BY-SA) from deviantArt
- Image is meant to symbolize the wedding singer being depressed because of what happened to him
- Second pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
- YouTube video features a short scene from The Wedding Singer

The Wedding Singer Movie: Why Would You Fall In Love With A Selfish, Unlikable Guy?

(*Warning for possible spoilers for The Wedding Singer (#ad) 1998 American romantic comedy film, which is about a guy who gets his heart broken but ends up meeting someone new)

What should happen before the main characters get together?

Robbie Hart (played by Adam Sandler), the title character, meets Julia Sullivan (played by Drew Barrymore), the main female character, and you just know or it soon becomes clear that the two will eventually end up together.

But, before anything can happen between them, they have to deal with their respective supposed significant others first.

In Julia’s case, this would be her fiancé named Glenn Gulia (played by Matthew Glave). The 2 have been engaged for years before finally deciding to set a date for their wedding.

The Wedding Singer’s love rival should be likable

When Glenn was first introduced, he seemed like a nice and pretty okay person, which was how it should be. Gulia is supposed to be a likable character because, otherwise, why would Julia want to marry him? Why would she even fall in love with him if he’s a horrible person?

So the challenge now is to find a way for Julia to still end up falling in love with Robbie even though her fiancé isn’t really a bad person and isn’t really someone that one should dislike and hate.

This can be a difficult feat to accomplish, but it’s not impossible. Unfortunately, The Wedding Singer doesn’t manage that at all and that’s the problem with Glenn.

Glenn transforms into a horrible person

Glenn seemed like an all right person at first, but then his character just quickly turned into someone that was completely horrible. He had no qualms cheating on Julia.

He didn’t seem to care about her or even love her like when he didn’t even look the least bit concerned or worried when she got drunk.

Instead of asking how she was, what came out of his mouth was a plea for Julia not to puke in his car. He appeared to be too selfish and self-centered. He wouldn’t even give her the window seat on the airplane.

How in the world did Julia fall in love with Glenn?

It was these kinds of things that really made Glenn such a bad character that viewers will have to wonder what Julia saw in him in the first place and why in the world she would even think about agreeing to marry him especially since it was established that she wasn’t marrying Gulia for the money.

All this served to make the audience dislike and even hate Glenn. But it also makes some question Julia’s decisions.

And you just can’t help but think that Glenn is characterized in this way just so Sullivan would have a reason to want to leave him and to start falling in love with the wedding singer who was an infinitely better person when compared to Gulia.

That just makes the film fall flat though because it’s like the plot has to make one of the characters bad just to make the other character stand out more.

Do you think it’s possible for Glenn to be portrayed as a pretty nice guy, whom Julia could have easily fallen in love with, while still being able to get her to eventually fall in love with the wedding singer?


*Notes:
- Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki (CC:BY-SA) based on the image by CoDLia (CC:BY-SA) from deviantArt
- Image is meant to represent Julia and Glenn since the figures in said image appear to be a couple and yet they don’t seem close at all with the way they’re standing beside each other but aren’t touching or holding hands
- Second pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
- YouTube video features a short scene from The Wedding Singer

The Wedding Singer Movie: This Will Make You Wonder Why Julia Is In Love With Glenn

(*Warning for possible spoilers for The Wedding Singer 1998 American romantic comedy film. It’s about the title character who ends up finding love after he gets his heart broken)

Also known as, "What's the reason why you're engaged, but not married?"

Engaged, but not yet married

Soon after The Wedding Singer movie (#ad) begins, we are introduced to Julia Sullivan (played by Drew Barrymore), a waitress and the main female character. We soon find out that she’s engaged to this businessman named Glenn Gulia (played by Matthew Glave).

But they’ve actually been engaged for years and yet there’s still no set date for their wedding. Upon hearing this, you have to wonder why that is the case, right? Why haven’t the two gotten married yet? What’s stopping them from getting married if they apparently love each other?

What’s wrong with Glenn in The Wedding Singer?

When we finally get to meet Glenn, he seems like an all right person who just doesn’t seem ready to settle down or is just not yet ready to get married.

But, as we get to know him more, it soon becomes apparent that he’s not exactly a nice person and that’s putting it lightly and mildly considering the things that he did.

Does Glenn really love Julia?

The way he and Julia interact with each other can really make you wonder why they’re even together in the first place or how they could have possibly fallen in love.

Gulia appears to be more interested in his work and even in other women than in his own fiancée seeing as he has no qualms cheating on Sullivan. He can’t even spare just a little bit of his time to help Julia plan their wedding.

He doesn’t show even an ounce of worry or concern when his fiancée gets drunk during their date. Instead, all he cared about was making sure that Julia didn’t puke all over his car. It’s these kinds of things and more that make you wonder how and why the 2 haven’t broken up yet.

How can Julia love Glenn?

Why would Julia stay with Glenn when it doesn’t seem like the guy even has time for her and when the guy doesn’t even seem to love her?

Why would Glenn stay with Julia when he has no qualms going out with other women? If he doesn’t love Julia anymore, then why bother staying with her and even asking her to get married?

Together because of familiarity?

It’s a mystery, but, perhaps, the reason the 2 are still together is because they’re used to each other already. There’s a sense of familiarity in being together for all these years that it would undoubtedly be different if they split up.

Maybe they’re so used to being together that they can’t imagine it being any other way. In fact, when Julia was asked to consider entertaining other suitors or finding someone else other than Glenn to marry, she immediately refused.

It was only later on when she’d fallen in love with Robbie Hart (played by Adam Sandler), the wedding singer, that she finally broke it off with Gulia.

What about you? What do you think is the reason why Glenn and Julia remained engaged to each other even though it didn’t really seem like they truly loved each other?

*Notes:
-Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki based on the image by Rusembell (CC:BY) from deviantArt
-Image is meant to represent Julia and Glenn and how their relationship must have been like before it all fell apart
- Second pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
-YouTube video features a scene from The Wedding Singer

The Wedding Singer Movie: How And Why Your Ex-Fiancée Can Be Likable?

(*Warning for possible spoilers for The Wedding Singer 1998 American romantic comedy film)

The Wedding Singer (#ad) is about the title character, named Robbie Hart (played by Adam Sandler), who gets his heart broken by his fiancée, but who eventually finds and meets someone else that may just be the right one for him.

Robbie is all set to be married to Linda (played by Angela Featherstone), his fiancée, but things don’t turn out as planned as the wife-to-be doesn’t show up at her own wedding.

This is very sad indeed, but it had to happen since this movie isn’t about Linda and Robbie’s life together.

Reason not to make the love rival evil

We know that Robbie is meant to be with someone else, but the challenge for The Wedding Singer is to still be able to portray Linda in a nice and good light even if she doesn’t end up marrying Robbie.

There’s no need to turn Linda into a horrible person just so Robbie has a reason for falling in love with someone else.

After all, if Linda is such a bad and unlikable person, then why would the wedding singer even want to marry her in the first place? What reason would he have to fall in love with her if she’s mean and nasty? Thankfully, the film is able to make Linda a realistic and believable character.

Feeling scared during your own wedding is believable

The fact that she doesn’t show up at her own wedding is bad, of course, but the audience can understand that she’s just feeling apprehensive and scared and unsure, which is perfectly natural and normal since marriage isn’t something to be taken lightly.

Linda is human, she’s imperfect and that makes her real

Furthermore, Linda actually takes the time to show up and talk to Robbie later on so she can explain things to him and that adds to her character.

After all, she didn’t have to show up. She could have just left Robbie alone to suffer and pine for her. But, instead, Linda shows up and explains things to the wedding singer.

Of course, her words aren’t something that pleases Robbie Hart and she should have told him about her doubts long before the wedding day came.

But Linda looked genuinely and sincerely sorry about the heartache she caused and she even apologizes to Robbie so this scene made her appear real.

This scene was able to sort-of show how and why Robbie might have fallen in love with her. She has her faults, but that just makes her human. All-in-all, she doesn’t seem like a bad person. What do you think?


*Notes:
- Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki (CC:BY-SA) based on the image by CoDLia (CC:BY-SA) from deviantArt
- Image is meant to represent Robbie and Linda and what they must have been like before their relationship fell apart
- YouTube video features a scene from The Wedding Singer

The Wedding Singer Movie: Reasons To Dislike Or Hate Linda?

(Warning for possible spoilers for The Wedding Singer 1998 American romantic comedy film)

In The Wedding Singer (#ad), Robbie Hart (played by Adam Sandler), the main character, gets his heart broken when his fiancée, named Linda (played by Angela Featherstone), doesn’t show up at their wedding. Linda has her own reasons for not wanting to marry Robbie and for ditching him at their own wedding.

Linda started out as a pretty nice person

And, in another article, I talked about how what Linda did may have caused Robbie pain, but she didn’t really come across as a horrible and bad person.

Her reasons for doing what she did seemed real and believable and it was something that the audience could understand.

In addition to that, the fact that she eventually showed up to talk to Robbie and explain things to him and even apologized to him successfully made it known to viewers that Linda wasn’t a nasty or evil person.

She was just not compatible with Robbie and the 2 just weren’t meant to be.

This was great because The Wedding Singer proved that it was capable of getting Robbie to separate from his fiancée without demonizing or turning Linda into a person with a terrible personality that would make viewers wonder what Robbie saw in her in the first place and why and how he could have fallen in love with her.

Why did Linda show up again if she left already?

All-in-all, Linda’s exit from the film was done pretty well. I didn’t think that she was ever going to show up again, but she suddenly shows up in the latter parts of the movie.

This is where the problem with her starts as this is where things begin to get unbelievable. Linda really shouldn’t have shown up again.

She’d left already. Why would she need to return? Her reason for wanting to get back together with Robbie is ridiculous, to say the least.

She says she can learn to live with him being nothing more than a wedding singer. How crazy is that? It shows that she doesn’t really love him.

Linda suddenly turns into a horrible person

Her actions and the things that she says seem quite out of character for her.

It’s like the only reason she showed up again was to add to the plot and cause further conflict and misunderstanding between Robbie and Julia Sullivan (played by Drew Barrymore), the main female character.

Linda seemed like an all right person at first and The Wedding Singer should have let it remain that way.

Instead, the film brings her back again and then turns her into this person who suddenly wants to get back together with Robbie just to create some conflict.

Simply put, her return and her reasons for doing so was unbelievable and she really shouldn’t have come back. What do you think about this?


*Notes:
- Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki (CC:BY-SA) based on the image by CoDLia (CC:BY-SA) from deviantArt
- Image is meant to symbolize Robbie and Linda from The Wedding Singer movie
- Second pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
- YouTube video features a scene from the aforementioned film

The Wedding Singer Movie: How To Save A Failing Relationship?

(*Warning for possible spoilers for The Wedding Singer 1998 American romantic comedy film)

The Wedding Singer (#ad) is about Robbie Hart (played by Adam Sandler) whose fiancée breaks his heart, but he is able to recover with the help of a special someone.

Dumped on the day of your own wedding

Robbie, the title character, is really looking forward to his upcoming wedding with his fiancée, Linda (played by Angela Featherstone).

Who would have thought that the bride wouldn’t show up at her own wedding and would actually leave the groom waiting and looking like a fool at his own wedding?

What Robbie had to experience was really terrible and it can really make the audience start to dislike Linda even before they meet her because of what she did.

Don’t keep relationship problems to yourself

If she was having second thoughts about marrying the wedding singer, if she didn’t want to marry him anymore, then she could have at least told him before the wedding so Robbie doesn’t have to face or endure the agony of having to wait for someone who will never show up and having everyone see what happened to him.

What was so wrong with informing Robbie about this so he’s not left waiting and looking like a fool on his own wedding day?

It’s okay to worry about your own wedding

Linda’s feelings of being scared and apprehensive about her own wedding may be understandable since this is a life-changing moment.

But, what can be hard to understand is how she could fail to tell Robbie about this so they could talk things over or even just postpone the wedding for now until Linda is ready to tie the knot.

Couples should talk to each other

Communication is very important in a relationship. If the two had just talked things over and shared their feelings and worries and concerns with each other, then maybe they could have fixed things and been able to salvage their relationship. What do you think?


*Notes:
- Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki (CC:BY-SA) based on the image by hayashinomura (CC:BY-SA) from deviantArt
- Image is meant to represent the wedding of Robbie and Linda that was supposed to happen in The Wedding Singer
- YouTube video features a scene from said film

The Wedding Singer Movie: How To Get People To Listen And Help You?

(Warning for possible spoilers for The Wedding Singer 1998 American romantic comedy film, which is about a guy who has his heart broken by the one he supposedly loves. But he ends up meeting someone else and eventually gets his happy ending)

Falling in love with someone who is already engaged

In The Wedding Singer (#ad), the title character, Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler), finds himself falling in love with Julia Sullivan (Drew Barrymore), a waitress and the main female character.

That’s all well and good, but the problem is that Julia is already engaged to be married to her fiancé named Glenn Gulia (Matthew Glave).

Glenn turns out to be a very horrible person though as he has no qualms cheating on Julia. This gives Julia an awfully convenient reason to fall in love with someone else.

Problems thanks to a misunderstanding

Anyway, thanks to a misunderstanding, Julia thinks that Robbie is back with Linda (Angela Featherstone), his former fiancée.

This prompts her to head to Las Vegas with Glenn so they can get married right away. Naturally, Robbie wants to stop this from happening. He follows after the couple as soon as he finds out about the misunderstanding.

Airplane scene in The Wedding Singer

Who would have thought that the trio would end up in the same airplane? It does seem awfully convenient, no?

Nonetheless, I didn’t mind it all that much as what happened between Julia and Robbie in that scene was really quiet sweet.

The Wedding Singer befriends practically everyone on the plane

Aside from that part, another thing that I liked about this airplane scene was how Robbie was able to befriend all the people in the first class section of the plane.

I found it amusing, cool and even heartwarming when we see Robbie telling everyone on the plane what happened between him and Julia and having all those people listening intently and supporting him and being on his side.

Maybe it’s not all that realistic as some people might not really care about these kinds of things, but, I liked that scene in The Wedding Singer anyway.

It was great how the people were nice and kind enough to listen to Robbie’s story. More than that, they even took the time and effort to help him out. What do you think about this scene from the movie?


*Notes:
- Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki (CC:BY-SA) based on the image by CoDLia (CC:BY-SA) from deviantArt
- Image is meant to symbolize Julia and Robbie and what happened in the airplane scene because the couple in said image also looks sweet and adorable
- Second pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
- YouTube video features a scene from The Wedding Singer