CINEMA: Four Weddings and a Funeral: Well Groomed

Sleek,forgettable fun in Four Weddings and a Funeral

There are movies so breezy, even flimsy, that you can enjoy them as genial providers of an evening's entertainment yet forget all about them by the time you leave the multiplex. Such a film is Four Weddings and a Funeral, a British romantic comedy with not much inside its pretty head but the spinning out of an ancient Hollywood riddle: How long will it take the two leading characters to realize that they are destined to be together?

Mike Newell's film finds its premise in one of modern life's minor truths: if you are a sociable specimen of the yuppie breed,...

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