The most astonishing thing about Muriel's Wedding is that critics and civilians alike keep referring to it--favorably and unfavorably--as a romantic comedy. This says a great deal about our hunger for the innocent pleasures of the sort of film that (Four Weddings and a Funeral excepted) no one knows how to make anymore, but not much useful about writer-director P.J. Hogan's film.
There's nothing romantic about Muriel's Wedding and, a few sardonic laughs aside, very little comedy in it either. It is instead a relentless assault on what Marxists used to call petit-bourgeois values and what we have since learned to...
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