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Development”), celebrity mug shots) to highly predictable plot Isabelle (Meredith MacNeill) want their wed­ Out on DVD a major asshole twists, a boring sing-along behind the closing ding themed around their favorite sport: ten­ nis. by Steve Warren . Contributing Writer whose license credits and a cheap set with cell walls that plate is “NELLY quiver when they’re hit. Couple 3. Michael (Robert Webb) and What you overlooked in theaters makes.great 1,” is available as “Confetti” Joanna (Olivia Colman) are naturists, so natu­ a revenge target. Christopher Guest abandoned the mocku- rally they want to have a nude wedding; but home viewing In scenes too mentary form with “For Your Consideration,” Vivienne says she can’t have naked people on the magazine’s cover if they win. She tosses in A pair of gay-positive comedies were over­ silly to detail but an English troppe has stepped in to fill the another unnatural note by ruling that all three looked in theaters last fall, with promotional Nelson is sent to prison; John follows him (“I gap. If they don’t do Guest and company one weddings will be held consecutively in one budgets too miniscule to attract a mass audi­ feel like it’s prom night and everyone else is better, they do them one just as good. venue — indoors, away from nature. ence or target a niche audience. But on DVD, porkin’ my date”) and arranges for them to “Confetti” is a hilarious concoction about a The weddings will aU be planned by the they’re solid options for home viewing. be cellmates to “make sure he gets the full wedding competition staged by a bridal maga­ team of Heron & Hough. The flamingest cou­ “Let’s Go To Prison” treatment.” zine, Confetti, in place of their usual Bride of ple since “The Birdcage,” Archie Heron Surprisingly subversive in telling a roman­ For a time it’s a question of which Nelson the Year. The contest, with a custom-built (Vincent Franklin) and Gregory Hough (Jason tic gay love story — think “Brokeback” behind will suffer first: getting killed by Lynard house as the prize, is for the Most Original Watkins) make Martin bars — within a formulaic com (Michael Shannon), Wedding of the Year. It Short’s wedding planner in edy whose target audience is head of the White was dreamed up by the “Father of the Bride*’s decidedly un-gay, “Let’s Go to Kingdom, or raped by Antoni Clarke (Jimmy look butch. Prison” deserves better treat­ Barry (Chi McBride), Carr),“a bride’s best As the weeks go by the ment than it got. the surprisingly friend — I’m not gay” stress factors intensify, even Dax Shepard, who’s like David romantic chief of the and enthusiastically causing lovers’ quarrels. By the .Spade with balls, stars as John G-Lords. endorsed by his editor, big day it’s possible that Lyshitski. The “funny” name Nelson proves sur­ Vivienne (Felicity Archie and Gregory will be illustrates the writers’ worst low-^ prisingly resilient and Montagu). the only couple who still want brow tendencies, but the script resourceful. When, In clip's like failed to get married. isn’t all on that level. While riffing after a year, he realizes “American Idol” audi­ Director Debbie Isitt on prison movies in general, it his cellmate has tions, we hear some really worked with the cast for also makes a few serious points betrayed him, it bad ideas and even the weeks in improvisations to about the prison system. comes down to a glad­ trio Antoni picks as final­ come up with a script that A three-time loser (appar­ iatorial fight to the ists aren’t so great. seems a lot more polished ently not a problem in Illinois), death in the rec yard Couple 1. Matt than that of “Talladega John was sentenced each time with the entire prison (Martin Freeman) and ,■ ■: ■'■V' rr. Nights.” These Brits are seri­ by the same judge and decides population, including Sam (Jessica Stevenson) “A SLY, VERY FUNNY COMEDY." ously funny. to take revenge on him when he Warden Dylan Baker, want to stage a wedding 1 hope Isitt and the cast can stay married gets out. He misses his chance by three days: betting on the outcome. out of a.Busby Berkeley-era Hollywood to each other just to give us several more films the judge is dead. But the judge’s son. Nelson “Let’s Go to Prison” ranges from clever musical. Biederman, IV, (Will Arnett of “Arrested touches (e.g.,the opening postcard logo and Couple 2. Josef (Stephen Mangan) and of this caliber. •

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