The wedding ringer cast professional#

The wedding ringer cast professional#

Rather than encouraging his employees or professional associates to stand up at his wedding by promising them preferable treatment at work, Doug employs one of those magical elves who exist only in particularly desperate romantic comedies: Jimmy, a professional best man who makes the groom look not just impressive, but like a veritable superman. Keep in mind: This spineless pile of goo doesn’t have a single male friend or relative to serve as his best man, or as a groomsman, for his wedding in 10 days.

The implausibilities begin with the idea that Doug Harris, played by Josh Gad at his sweatiest, least confident, and most pratfall-prone, would have the confidence and guile to take over his father’s tax-law business and snag a fiancée as well-put-together as Gretchen, played by The Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting. So it’s entirely fitting that the film uses plenty of party-trick-style distractions itself, in a transparent, woefully unsuccessful attempt to pretend that its premise isn’t an ugly melange of plot holes, duct-taped together with montage sequences and regrettable gender and sexual politics. In the dreadful comedy The Wedding Ringer, the title character, Jimmy Callahan (Kevin Hart), advises the seven fake groomsmen he hires out for weddings to develop and perfect party tricks to distract attendees from noticing that nothing about them or their supposed relationship with the groom makes any sense at all.