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Bryllupsfesten (1989)  
Review
In
Wam &
Vennerød's only full-blown comedy, the story and the
abundances of slapdash characters and relations never make much sense,
but at least the film is constantly on the move so that you are spared
from lingering on its inadequacies. At its best, Bryllupsfesten
has an infantile charm and captures some of the zeitgeist the filmmakers
always tried to satirise. At its worst, it's almost unbearable, with an
utterly silly script by Vennerød. The comedy is forced, the performances
lack spontaneity, and the timing is off. Wam & Vennerød keep piling it
on hoping for the best, but there's something sadly uninspired about
their work here. They were usually a lot funnier in their more serious
works – intentionally or not. Some of the actors manage to conjure up a
moment or two of amusement, notably Jon Eikemo, Anne Marie Ottersen and the two
veterans in this show, Aud Schønemann and Leif Juster.
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