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Toni Collette plays an awkward, clumsy woman named Muriel who fantasizes about getting married and listens to ABBA. Living in Porpoise Spit, she has no life of her own. She, as well as her family, are mentally abused by the father, a philandering politician who will do anything to gain popularity. The group of women that she hangs around with, don't want her around...
Publié le Jui 20 2004 par Diaspora Chic
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an uplifting drama - not a laugh-riot comedy
Watching ï¿Murielï¿s Weddingï¿ itï¿s incredible to think that I ever considered this flick a comedy. Instead, itï¿s one of those extremely off-beat Australian dramas thatï¿s so outright weird, it looks hysterical, but isnï¿t. Muriel is a loser ï¿ we learn that much in the first scene. Big and unloved, she goes to weddings in clothes she shoplifts, and is...
Publié le Fév 3 2004 par Rottenberg's rotten book review
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Good Movie, Jui 20 2004
Toni Collette plays an awkward, clumsy woman named Muriel who fantasizes about getting married and listens to ABBA. Living in Porpoise Spit, she has no life of her own. She, as well as her family, are mentally abused by the father, a philandering politician who will do anything to gain popularity. The group of women that she hangs around with, don't want her around because she doesn't live up to their standards--beautiful and stupid. While on vacation, she meets with a high school friend, Rhonda.
Before her performance in "Six Feet Under", Rachel Griffiths plays Rhonda, a high school friend of Muriel's who is transformed into a swan. The popular quartet accepts her but she rejects them because of their cruel treatment of her in high school. She and Muriel move to Sidney, and Muriel starts anew. But when Rhonda is hit with cancer, Muriel goes back into her dreams of being a bride. Muriel does marry but for the wrong reasons. Muriel is forced to confront herself, her family, and the people in her life that hurt her emotionally.
This movie deals with acceptance and Muriel had to accept that there were some things you could and couldn't change.
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Muriel's Wedding-A fun flick from begining to end!, Mai 20 2008
This retro-review is for the widescreen version of "Muriel's Wedding",still available as of this writing and at a steal of a price.
This is one movie I pull out again and again and it never disappoints no matter how many times I've see it.
Toni Collette(in her 3rd movie) stars as the overweight Muriel Heslop.The movie is in three "acts","The bouquet","Sydney,city of brides" and "The Wedding".
It opens with Muriel amongst a throng of other wedding attendees catching the bridal bouquet.Her four "friends",which includes the bride,implore her to give it to another group friend as it should be hers by rights,not Muriels'.Muriel hurt,reluctantly gives the bouquet over only to have it thrown back in her face because her friend had just broken up with her boyfriend.As everyone disperses some nasty remarks are made Muriel's way.
This in essence sets the tone for the rest of the movie and especially the character of Muriel herself.She is hanging out and trying to fit in with a group of selfish self-absorbed gals from her hometown of Porpoise Spit(you've gotta love that name!),and she will endure almost anything to get their approval and in the process prove to herself and others that she is "something",not "nothing".
At the wedding she is arrested for stealing the very dress she wears,which she denies having stolen but actually did(showing how far she'll go to be accepted and fit in).She's taken home by the police.Here,at home, we are given a fuller understanding of the backdrop of her life.She's 22 years old and still lives at home with her family.Her father is a town councillor who once tried running for the Senate but lost.He blames this on his family and further more publicly derides them all as lazy and shiftless,while all the time treating his wife like a doormat who is there just for his whimsy and beck and call.In fact just as Muriel feels like "nothing",her mother has as much right to say this if not more than her.The only difference between the two is how each deal with their lives.Muriel at this time of her life is trying to fit in,while her mother has obviously tried in the past but lost(in more ways than one) and really mirrors what is in store for Muriel.And she along with her mother,sister and two brothers seem to be chained to this never ending loop of despair,with no hope of change.
An opportunity arises through a lady friend of Muriel's father.She runs a beauty consultant business and "coincidentally" pops in on Bill with his family and other business associates an unusual amount of times throughout the film(we later find out why).She offers to give Muriel a chance to sell cosmetics for her.Muriel takes the job and is given a blank check by her mother(on orders from her father,of course) to get her started.At this same time her four "friends" are going to be taking a resort vacation on Hibiscus Island.Before they leave they finally give Muriel the grand rejection by booting her out of the group and Muriel is devastated.But with the blank check and her new job,Muriel decides to use it as the premise to take a vacation of a lifetime and also to be with her "friends",so she follows them.While there Muriel is recognized by an old fellow high schooler Rhonda,played by Rachel Griffiths(her first movie).They instantly hit it off and become good friends.
When Muriel lands back home she finds out that the scheme has been found out and it's time to pay the piper.Before the piper has a chance to catch her she high tails it back to the cab she arrived in and takes off.She gets her friend Rhonda and both take off southward to Sydney to start a new life.Rhonda gets a job across the street from Muriel,who works in a video rental store.One day a local guy comes in to rent a movie and asks her for her very first formal date.Rhonda takes Muriel and her boyfriend to a ravers club and bumps into two hot American sailors who she takes back home,leaving Muriel and the new boyfriend alone for a while.Eventually both arrive back home also, but to a very loud "commotion" afoot in the girls only bedroom.A clothing trail in the hall,a mixture of Rhondas' and the sailors,tells the tale.
Muriel amid long moments of awkward silence,makes her boyfriend a cup of "tea"(Muriel is NOT a whiz in the kitchen!) and they both sit down to drink it;Muriel on a bean bag chair.Finally her amour can take no more and forcefully kisses her.Getting little resistance he moves on and on and Muriel giggles with delight at each piece of clothing he removes.However when he unzips the bean bag chair instead of Muriels' leather pants,bedlam ensues.Muriels' screeches bring in the two sailors from the next room who think her boyfriend has made some unwanted advances towards her.Both sailors are without clothes as one pins the "perpetrator" down, while the other tries to console Muriel,who screeches even louder when she spies his "nether regions".
During this raucous Rhonda falls backwards and slides down a wall.Her legs have given out.It turns out Rhonda has a cancerous tumour in her brain.One operation that would supposedly remove it entirely turns into another from which she'll never walk again.Rhonda relies heavily on Muriel but Muriel,ever the mental wanderer,continues to dream of marriage and travels to several dress shops in Sydney.She has a different story for each store clerk she meets but it usually has something to do with a sick relative who will be unable to attend her "wedding".In return she gets to try the dresses on and gets a picture to go along to boot.At one store Rhonda finds her and lets Muriel knows she needs to get a life.
With this Muriel gets serious.She scours the papers and sees an ad right up her alley.It says that an South African olympic swimmer is looking to marry an Australian girl.After checking him and the situation out further she finds out the swimmer is only doing it to get citizenship so he can compete for Australia.The marriage will only be in name only and for a minimum of four months to comply with regulations.Nonetheless Muriel marries the swimmer getting ALOT of media attention and thinking she's finally made it.She also hopes for more than the shallow marriage it is.Reality rears its' ugly head.
During this time her father has been formally charged with taking bribes.He is in Sydney awaiting a hearing and also it is learned he has left his wife for his friend the beauty consultant.Her father also has let it be known publicly that Muriel stole money from him and uses that to try and gain public sympathy and as an excuse for him taking a bribe in the first place.At the wedding father gives the bride away and Muriels' mother finally arrives alone but late just as her daughter leaves the church.Muriel doesn't see her and mother is crushed.
Rhonda,without Muriel,is forced to go home and live with her mother.After a time Muriel is forced to face reality and realize the marriage sham is just that and has nowhere to go.Thrown in on all this is a call home as Muriels' mother has committed suicide.
She flies back for the funeral and finds her Dad wants her to stay to mind the house and her siblings.She stands up to him finally and says it is HIS responsibility.His ersatz girlfriend it seems isn't keen on having his kids in tow anyways,so that "romance" cooled faster than an ice age;he does as muriel says.Muriel realizes she has finally found herself and she goes to collect Rhonda and both fly back to Sydney,to start their new lives together.Fade out.
It's quite the movie with alot of ups and downs for all characters but it is a feel good story with a feel good ending that leaves you smiling when the credits finally run.
The movie also has become famous for its'soundtrack of ABBA songs.Muriels musical solace throughout the movie was ABBA.In fact there's a nice sequence when her and Rhonda are on Hibiscus Island doing a lip sync to "Waterloo".Furthermore it was "Muriels Wedding" that pretty much single handedly revived the interest in ABBA music in the 90s and onward resulting in new releases of their recorded material,videos and even a popular theatrical play "Mama Mia".
This movie is certainly one with a wide appeal for women as well as men.I would recommend though that if you have any children below the ages of say 16 that you be careful when viewing this as some of the scenes and language can get pretty "descriptive" at times.
Other than that I highly recommend this picture to everyone.The film has no pretensions,is bold and says:"Here I am-love me or leave me".Plot wise it does have a tendency to wander at times and slow things a bit,but it does get back on track quickly and the many precious funny sequences that are in it tend to make up for the others.Remember also that as much fun as this movie is it does get serious,and sometimes very quickly.But it is to the credit of the actors,script writers and the director that all the fine tapestry that is Muriel's Wedding comes off as well as it does.
If you haven't taken the plunge there is no better time to get "Muriel's Wedding" and treat yourself, than right now.You won't be disappointed.
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Porpoise Spit Sheila's Move It On Over To Big City Sidney!, Jui 28 2004
Australian writer/director P.J. Hogan's modern masterpiece, "Muriel's Wedding" serves up wedding cake with wheelchairs, confetti with cancer, ABBA with ardor, sweetness with stealing, and more importantly friends with foes in this one of a kind black comedy."Muriel's Wedding" not only launched P.J. Hogan's directing and writing career but gave a leg up to Toni Collette who agreed to pack on 30 lbs. for the once in a lifetime role of Muriel Heslop, citizen of small town Porpoise Spit, Australia. Rachel Griffiths from "Six Feet Under" also got her first shot playing Muriel's friend, wild child and general black sheep of Porpoise Spit, Rhonda Epinstalk. Rhonda and Muriel escape the small town and small people of Porpoise Spit for the big city lights and acceptance of Sidney, Australia. A low self-esteemed wedding obsessed wannabe, Muriel lies, cheats and steals her way to her ultimate goal. Getting HITCHED! At least that's what Muriel thinks she desires, but all she wants is to truly be accepted by friends, family and her WHOLE world. Muriel's whole existence is based on "Why Can't It Be Me? Why Can't I Be The One?" Muriel's parents, Bill and Betty Heslop, played by Aussie actors Bill Hunter and Jeanie Drynan both turn in excellent and believable performances. Especially Jeanie Drynan as the put upon mother who unconditionally loves her children and only wants to think the best of them. Also featured are four judgemental and witchy women who are Muriel and Rhonda's former high school classmates. Some of the greatest comedy scenes take place between the six gals and are hilarious! The film ALSO has a GREAT 70's soundtrack with the likes of: Sugar Baby Love by The Rubettes
We've Only Just Begun by The Carpenters
Tide Is High by Blondie
Waterloo by ABBA
I Go to Rio by Peter Allen
I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself by Dusty Springfield
Dancing Queen by ABBA
I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do by ABBA
and Happy Together by The Turtles I highly recommend this film not just as a "chick flick" but a great and terrific movie that examines not only the comedic side of life but of true friendship, love and death... Happy Watching And Go Porpoise Spit High!
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My favorite movie, Jui 7 2004
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I watched this wonderful movie about a year after it originally came out. I connected with the (very real lives of the) characters. The story of a woman who discover the shollow ways of the people around her, Muriel's Wedding is one of those rare movies with deep messages. Anyone who's ever had any kind of self issues will compeletely love it. Check it out.
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Almost brilliant..., Jui 1 2004
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This movie is almost amazing and funny and touching, but somehow, it just misses the mark. The fault really isn't the actors, they are superb (Toni Collette is great in everything she does.) And the fault certainly isn't the ABBA-centered soundtrack playing in the background; it adds some much-needed levity to a very heavy comedy-drama. The first major problem of the movie is that it can't decide whose story it is. You would think with a title like Muriel's Wedding that we would see things through Muriel's point of view. But so many times, we're taken off on these scenes without Muriel, where we catch a glimpse of Rhonda's thoughts or the mother's feelings. It gives a disjointed feel to the movie, keeping us from focusing on Muriel, the supposed object of our admiration and encouragement. The movie also offers drama to the point of the extreme, and it can't really recover from the depressing story lines that pop up periodically. Very few directors and screenwriters know how to make a drama light-hearted and amusing. Billy Wilder was one. If he had directed Muriel's Wedding, it really would have been something to stand up and cheer about. This movie has a character with a cancerous tumor who will never walk again, a woman who feels so worthless she commits suicide, a father who is cheating on his wife and verbally abusing his children, and Muriel, who is obsessed with weddings and ABBA, a trait which might be funnier if there weren't all this other mess going on. Ultimately, we like Muriel, but we'd like her more if we saw more of her, and less of her dysfunctional friends and family.
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sad, funny and true!, Avril 22 2004
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Well, mostly true anyway...Everyone remembers things differently. It is very much based on the directors family. I remember when the mother died, it was very sad. The real Porpose Spit is Tweed Heads and as far as I know the Father is still a local member. I find it a cleaver but uncomfortable film to watch...As far as I know the real Murial and the gil in the wheelchair were never reconciled.
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Oh my God was this funny..., Mars 25 2004
I LOVED this movie. Toni Collette was absolutely brilliant here. The movie was funny, but it was so sad too. I felt like I just wanted to jump into the screen and give Muriel a great big hug. Her home life was horrendous, but watching her as she came out of her shell was fantastic. There are some moments of hilarity in this movie like none I've ever seen.I can't say enough about this film...I'm definitely going to watch it again!!!!
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Fast start for the great Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths, Fév 10 2004
It's now 10 years since "Muriel's Wedding" first release, and for the most part it has relegated to the back of people's minds as "that ABBA movie." However, with the exception of one side-splitting scene featuring a gotta-see-it-to-appreciate-it lip-synched rendition of 'Waterloo,' the music is but the background to a great story of rejection and friendship.When I saw "About a Boy" recently, I was reminded again about the fearlessness of Toni Collette, who I believe is one of the world's great (and certainly most underrated) actresses. 'Muriel' is where it all began for her. Check her out in 'Muriel,' then 'Emma,' and finally 'About a Boy.' This is a beautiful, talented lady not afraid to do whatever the role requires. She's incredible. Watch the bar scene in Hibiscus where her friends essentially disown her. Her reaction is so stark and heartbreaking that I suspect that even her fellow actors were uncomfortable. It's no wonder this role won her Australia's equivalent of an Oscar. She's that good. This is where it also started for Rachel Griffiths, heartbreaking as Rhonda Epinstalk, Muriel's best friend. This is your chance to see two real stars making their initial marks. What a thrill in that. Also, never pass up a chance to see Bill Hunter, who put together three stirling performances back in the 1992 - 1994 timeframe: "Strictly Ballroom" (as Dancing Federation Chairman Barry Fife - *the* funniest role ever on film); "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" (as 'Bob,' potential suitor to transvestite Bernadette as played by the great Terence Stamp); and here as failed local politico Bill Heslop ("You Can't Stop Progress"). Bill Hunter knows comedy.
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an uplifting drama - not a laugh-riot comedy, Fév 3 2004
Watching ï¿Murielï¿s Weddingï¿ itï¿s incredible to think that I ever considered this flick a comedy. Instead, itï¿s one of those extremely off-beat Australian dramas thatï¿s so outright weird, it looks hysterical, but isnï¿t. Muriel is a loser ï¿ we learn that much in the first scene. Big and unloved, she goes to weddings in clothes she shoplifts, and is isolated by just about everybody (except the cops ï¿ somehow, being Muriel, itï¿s just her luck that the clerk of the store she stole from was also a guest). Her family life is a quiet hell ï¿ her father is a local developer and political figure in their sun-baked coastal town of ï¿Porpoise Spitï¿, though itï¿s clear that his life is one of bitterness. (By the end of the film, we learn that Murielï¿s father was an also-ran in national politics, a failure that heï¿s passed onto his family which is cowed into timidity by his relentless verbal abuse.) Muriel hangs onto two dreams ï¿ one of which has to do with singing and dancing to ABBA, while the other involves getting marriedï¿to somebody. Hungry for friends, Muriel steals from her father so she can afford to join them on a trip to Hibiscus Island (they are not pleased to see her). She also meets Rhonda, a much sexier and adventurous type played by a pre-ï¿Six Feet Underï¿ Rachel Griffiths. The two bond and Muriel comes alive for the first time in her life. Muriel also finds she canï¿t go back home because her father is being indicted for the money Muriel stole. Setting herself up in Sydney with Rhonda (and not telling Rhonda the truth about why she left home) Muriel finds she likes life outside of her shell. She also finds ways to satisfy her dream of being a bride w/o getting married ï¿ being feted by wedding stores whose owners treat potential customers to a preview of The-Big-Day. When Rhonda is paralyzed by a spinal tumor, Muriel puts her dreams aside in order to care for her friend, al but resigned to the idea that she will never be a bride. Fate steps in when the day comes that somebody pops her the question, and gives her the opportunity to complete the transformation into something she never thought she could be: married.In commercials, ï¿Murielï¿ was pushed as a sort of dark comedy. Instead, itï¿s rather dispiriting drama ï¿ the story of how Muriel will elevate herself from a life of emotional abuse into a fully-formed character. Arrest, cancer and suicide punctuate the darker points of the story. But the story is never gratuitously grim or sappy. Murielï¿s father is an ogre, and her mother flattened into timidity, but the story humanizes them both (him more than her, oddly enough). The moral of the story is centered around Muriel and Rhonda, and whether Muriel will let her dreams of marriage get in the way of her friendship. Itï¿s a simple message, but the script and the players walk it well. In short, if you loved ï¿Strictly Ballroomï¿ and anything by Peter Weir, youï¿ll love this flick. If youï¿re looking for an uncomplicated comedy, walk a different aisle.
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A favorite movie!, Fév 3 2004
This was my introduction to the ultra talented Toni Collette as well as 6 Feet Under's star Rachel Griffith. These two play outsiders who find friendship and acceptance away from their smalltown where neither ever really fit in. A different kind of coming of age and growing up story it has tragedy blended seamlessly with comedy and true drama.I have spent a fair amount of time in Australia and was in Melbourne in the 1970s when ABBA was on tour and every woman in Australia of a certain age loves that band with a devotion not seen anywhere else. The music of Muriel's life is this happy upbeat soundtrack that promises love and joy- something Muriel wants more than anything. Best line is when she tells her friend that since she met her she has not needed to listen to ABBA because her life is better than Dancing Queen. A triumphant victory of human spirit and a must for all fans of truly great chick flicks!
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