This has the Weekly World News logo on it and coming from the home of Bat Boy, I expected so much more. In fact, I expected more of everyone involved.
Directed by Micah Khan and written by Greg D’Alessandro, this certainly has a good cast. Cheri Oteri, who plays the mother of the groom and — spoiler — gets zombified, is always game for working hard. She’s wasted. Vincent Pastore? Just a name on the poster — or streaming info these days — to get you watching this. Micky Dolenz? A wedding DJ.
Based on an interactive play—I guess Tony ‘n Tina’s Wedding isn’t enough when it comes to that genre—this has Weekly World News editor Brick Rivers (Ajay Naidu) sending Elsa (Christine Spang) and Frank (Mu-Shaka Benson) to cover the first human/zombie wedding between Ashley (Deepti Menon) and Zack (David Cheng). They thought being from different races was tough on their parents. Now they’re totally different species.
The zombies retain who they were before, but they just want to eat brains. The movie is mostly played for laughs, and forty minutes of it feels like ten hours. Somehow, this was the movie that broke me and made me give up after years of what I feel are some of the toughest microbudget cinema. Maybe I just want more from my former favorite tabloid.
You can watch this on Tubi.