Not that I'm really complaining. After this movie, I kind of went into a wedding frenzy, looking up wedding websites and bridesmaids dresses and color schemes. My friend introduced me to this website: Green Wedding Shoes. Check it out. It's not that I want to get married, I just want to go to a wedding; it's the whole wearing a pretty dress and getting all dressed up thing that girls like (if you're a girl you will understand, and if you're a guy, you'll witness it someday).
Anyways, Father of the Bride is a great story about one man's love for his daughter and how he isn't ready for her to move onto another man just quite yet and get married. He is absolutely obsessed with her, she's his little girl; he's also obsessed with being cheap and not spending a lot of money on the wedding.
Of course Steve Martin is hilarious and takes part in a lot of obvious humour during the film, including falling into the in-laws pool after snooping upstairs in the Father of the Groom's office. There is also a hilarious character, Franck, played by Martin Short. Franck is the stereotypical foreign wedding planner who no one can understand and does everything the most extravagant way possible, including having swans in the front yard. The moments between Franck and George Banks (Steve Martin) are absolutely hilarious; the contrast between the two characters really adds humor to the movie.
One thing that is super precious about this movie is the relationship between George and his daughter Annie. She is a complete daddy's girl and in the end he will do anything to make her happy; it's the relationship that every girl dreams of having with her father (it is actually the relationship that I have with my father, which may be why I love this movie so much).
In the end, George realizes that he needs to let go of his daughter and let her have her own life. Definitely precious.
One of the funny things about watching this movie in today's time, twenty years later, is the clothes. They are so 90's and even have a little touch of the 80's in there. The hair is big, the wedding dress is poofy, the more ornate the better. It's funny to look back and see the cell phones that they used and the cars that they drive.
One thing that is even better about this movie is the house. It is the iconic family home that wives have dreamed of raising their families in for decades. Having seen this house in person only a few months ago (it's only about 20 minutes from where I live, super cool I know), it looks exactly the same. Like a moment stuck in time, a house that has been housing perfect functional families, many Sunday night dinners and birthday parties for decades.
A girl can dream right? Until next time, go play some basketball with your dad, Father of the Bride style. Hey, you might even win (If you do it's because he is letting you).
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