Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates succeeds as a fizzy summer comedy largely because it raises so few expectations. It’s a movie in the Judd Apatow mold—what else?—filled with raunchy talk, stoned giggles, semi-raw sex gags, and moments of winning sweetness. Its premise, although based on a “true story,” is silly enough not to have been. But the actors are generally in top form, and they rise above it. For a picture with such lightweight goals, it’s pretty funny.
The structure is a clothesline for comedy bits. With their sister’s wedding in the offing, two developmentally arrested brothers, Mike and Dave Stangle (Adam Devine and Zac Efron) are given an ultimatum by their father: in order to rein in their pee-in-the-punchbowl-style antics, which have capsized previous family gatherings, the nitwit siblings must bring dates to the nuptials—nice presentable girls who will keep them in line, writes Kurt Loder.
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