When a Hollywood starlet is looking for a remote location away from the papparazzi
to have her wedding and chooses a tiny island of the Hebrides, things go awry when the press follows her anyway.
This movie isn't really about the bride.
Katie (Macdonald) is a small-island girl just returned home from chasing another failing-artist boyfriend overseas. When Hollywood starlet Lara Tyler chooses the remote setting of her fiancee's book, the tiny island of Hegg (population 75... average age of 75 as well) to have her wedding far, far away from the press, island life is turned upside down. A few small problems though... the most persistent papparazzo has followed her anyway, her fiancee's book was based on rough description on Google, and the most fascinating wildlife on the island are an overabundance of hedgehogs and the rumored ghost of a cow that haunts the public toilet in the wildlife center.
This was a cute romantic comedy whose cast list surprised me... for one, David Tennant was listed nowhere in the Netflix description despite being the main male lead. Based on this I expected his role as groom to be a brief cameo, and that the main focus would be on the bride and her attempt to get married privately. Not so. In the end this was a romantic comedy where all the partners shuffle about and find their true soulmates.
If you can follow a conversation in a rapid-fire fashion when the voices are thick with Scottish accents, then you will find this movie delightful. The subtitles on Netflix were dreadfully done, with text showing up sometimes thirty or more seconds before or after the actual speech... ruining clever lines by spoiling them too early in some cases.
Four laugh out loud moments for me, with one eyeroll moment when the bride managed to disguise herself from the press successfully with nothing more than powder and candle wax.
If "The Wedding Planner" or "Two Weeks Notice" are your favorite rom-coms, then you will love this if you can follow the accented dialogue.
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