Our Family Wedding

In this culture-clash comedy, a young Mexican-American woman named Lucia Ramirez (America Ferrera) and her African-American fiancé Marcus Boyd (Lance Gross) return from New York to Los Angeles to announce their engagement to their families. But their respective fathers have history. As the story begins, flamboyant radio talk-show host Brad Boyd (Forest Whitaker) gets into a row with a police-dispatched tow-truck driver, Miguel Ramirez (Carlos Mencia), who's hauling away the car Brad left overnight in a no-parking zone. So when Lucia and Marcus reveal their plans to their unbeknownst-to-them fractious fathers, tempers erupt and ethnic insults fly. “Our marriage, their wedding” becomes the young couple's mantra as Lucia's tradition-minded mother (Diana-Maria Riva), sets out to create the wedding of her dreams, while divorced Brad's feisty love interest (Regina King) tries to be the voice of nuptial reason. Director Rick Famuyiwa's Our Family Wedding is unfortunately heavy on contrived coincidence and cliché-laden bickering that goes well over the top when Lucia's grandmother (Lupe Ontiveros) orders a live goat for an authentic Mexican celebration, only to have the terrified creature gobble up some Viagra (don't ask). Not a necessary purchase. [Note: DVD/Blu-ray extras include deleted scenes (17 min.), extended scenes (4 min.), a gag reel (3 min.), and trailers. Exclusive to the Blu-ray release is a “‘Til Dads Do Us Part” featurette (15 min.), and a bonus digital copy of the film. Bottom line: a decent extras package for a disappointing film.] (S. Granger)