Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016) gets a 36% on Rotten Tomatoes. A reviewer says that "It's definitely a movie to watch when you don't want to think too much."
Scene 1: Mike (Adam) is trying to sell his brand of tequila to a bar owner, using Dave (Zac) as a plant. Except the bartender knows him -- they hang out! And the guys try this every couple of weeks. He buys the tequila anyway. The guys hug. Zac is established as heterosexual in Minute 1.
Scene 2: Montage of the guys frolicking at parties -- trampoline, fireworks, kissing girls.. Beefcake shots of both. . Cut to them returning to their apartment to find two heterosexual couples -- Mom and Dad! I'm guessing Mom and Dad got divorced and married other people, so there are four parents.
Uh-oh, the montage was an unreliable narrator. A lot of those parties turned into disasters. So Mom and Dad lay down the law: at the upcoming wedding, they must each bring a date (they specify a girl). How will that keep the fireworks from destroying a camper, or grandpa from being pushed into his birthday cake?
Oh, and it turns out that the second couple is their sister Jeannie and her fiance Erik (Sam Richardson)
Character development: Mike is aggressive, easily-angered, and a schemer, while Dave is quiet, stable, and has to be talked into the craziness. Mike saved Dave from bullies when they were in school. Shouldn't Dave be saving Mike? Zac Efron is about twice as muscular as Adam Devine, and has a bigger dick, and everybody knows that you need a big dick to fight bullies.
Scene 3: Betty and Veronica (um...I mean Alice and Tatiana) working in a sleazy bar. Alice gets drunk and dances on a table, so the boss fires them both. They go home and watch a video of Alice getting dumped at the altar (by Kyle Smigielski, left), and exclaim "Fuck him right in the dick!" I'm not sure a dick can get fucked by anothe dick. Sounded, maybe. They reminisce about vodka brownies and wet t-shirt contests.
Meanwhile, the guys wonder where they can find nice, respectable girls to take to the wedding: Match.com, Tinder, Grindr (really?), Craigslist?
They post their ad - "two incredibly gorgeous guys offer a free weekend in Hawaii" -- and the number of responses breaks the internet.
Bob (Bob Turton) sees the ad. His friends tell him it's just for girls; he replies "that's not a dealbreaker," and goes to the interview in drag. He explains that he's new to drag, but he just got out of a divorce, and wants to fuck. They refuse graciously.
Two lesbians respond: "I'm not really looking for a heteronormative relationship." That's not what heteronormative means, ladies.
Other responses: druggies, sleazoids, prostitutes, a racist. Check, please!
Scene 4: The guys discussing their plight on the Wendy show. She wants to know how two incredibly gorgeous guys have trouble finding dates. "Well, we only want nice, respectable girls." That doesn't explain it, dude. Sleazoids Tatiana and Alice, getting high in their underwear, see the show and figure that they can play respectable.
Later, the guys are in a bar, bemoaning their plight: because of Dad's "old tomato" (ultimatum -- these boys are dumb with a capital q), they won't be able to attend their sister's wedding. Cue the girls in ridiculous pink skirts and 1960s hairdos. How did they find out where the guys are? Tatiana stages a meeting by leaping onto the windshield of a taxi and pretending to be hurt, so Mike can give her inept mouth-to-mouth.
Scene 5: In a bar getting to know each other, the girls make up jobs (school teacher and hedge fund manager) and back stories ("My ex died of cancer...in a plane crash."). Veronica (I mean Tatiana) makes risque double entendres at Mike and gets him eroused. Dave shows his girl, Betty (I mean Alice) his drawings of anthropomorphized booze, including a unicorn with an erect penis-horn. Like penises, Dave? Minimal plot dump: he wants to be an artist, but is being held back by his low self-esteem. And before you know it, they're off to Hawaii.
Left: random naked Hawaiian guy
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