Father of the Bride (2022) Review

Cuban-American Billy Herrera does not take it very well that his daughter is about to get married into a Mexican-American family, really getting into the boundaries of different cultures.

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To open the film Billy and his wife Ingrid are currently in couples therapy and after the session she announces that she wants a divorce as she has quite frankly had enough of his attitude and stubbornness along with his constant working. Although he had made a very good life for the family in his job as an architect. Their two daughters are complete opposites, with Sofia a recent law school graduate and Cora more rebellious who is an aspiring fashion designer.

Ingrid wanted to tell Sofia and Cora later that day but on arrival Sofia announces her engagement to fellow lawyer Adan Castillo and that they are planning on getting married in a month! A little bit of a shock to the system for Billy, especially when her plan is to then move to Mexico with Adan and work for non-profit instead of staying in the United States. Everything about the wedding was going to cause Billy issues considering he likes being in charge and the centre of attention, he wanted a big traditional Cuban wedding but Sofia and Adan were set on something a lot smaller.

When Hernan Castillo arrives with the rest of his family it is about to send everything into overdrive for Billy when he cannot cope with Hernan wanting to help pay for the wedding. It turned out that he is extremely rich and this feels like a big issue for Billy trying to come to terms with someone being more successful than he has been. Although the worst thing about that was both men were originally from other countries and have done very well within the United States and should really have been more friendly towards one another.

The Castillo family dynamics were very strange with Hernan having a very young wife and a baby together, along with his ex-wife and Adan’s mother also being quite friendly still. That was certainly just more aspects to create carnage, in the wedding planning and then when we hit the day with it being in Miami was never going to be straightforward. Not forgetting the inexperienced wedding planner along with Cora designing and making the bride and bridesmaid dresses, which was even more stress!

This is the third “remake” of Father of the Bride and in all honesty I truly adore the Steve Martin 1991 film having watched it so many times over the years. I will admit that I have not seen the 1950 original. But considering the amount of time passed between the different films I guess it confirms that father’s have always and will always find it stressful when their daughter gets married.

This one puts different cultures mixing together, although is the main thing that while the backgrounds might be different the working hard to make something of yourself and be accepted in another country was actually the same. Just showing that you should always respect what other people have gone through and battled against. This really did make for a nice remake really as it dared to be different and challenge stereotypes.

Andy Garcia was great casting and quite frankly the main reason I pushed through to watch the film, yes he is still a big pull isn’t he! I thought he found a really good balance for his character. Gloria Estefan alongside him was also great to watch as well. Adria Arjona and Diego Boneta were both decent as well, which really was nice.