Successful Comedies with Big Plot Holes
Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2022 4:32 am
Watched Meet the Parents and Wedding Crashers over the weekend. Both movies were huge hits in their respective releases, both I enjoyed. Both also seemed to struggle in the 3rd act and having odd plot holes. On the topic of plot holes, what constitutes a plot hole? Some people say it is when a character is written a certain way but does something else, others if the movie doesn't explain why something happened. In this case I'm considering it problems with the actual story, like it is poorly developed, not well thought out and doesn't make sense in its own context. They become even more glaring in comedies because they don't add to the joke of the movie, or they are just simply used to get to one joke from the next no matter how much they take away from the story.
Meet the Parents
The impromptu wedding between jacks daughter and Bob. They get married in 2 weeks, they've been together for a few months. Seems really fast for a doctor at least, they never mention a pregnancy but that has to be it. We don't see the sister much in the movie. Greg and Pam have been together 10 months and he hasn't talked to the parents at all. Jack doesn't have a running toilet fixed. Jack dumps out an entire bottle of tom collins mix just to have an excuse to go to the store. Why couldn't Jack at least tell his wife that they were planning the honey moon.
Wedding Crashers
Why did the whole family just leave their daughters wedding right in the middle of it.
The Secretary of State of the US has 2 strangers live in his house for the night that weren't invited to the wedding.
Dodgeball had some plot holes. The money is even called deux ex machina. Any others from those or other movies?
Meet the Parents
The impromptu wedding between jacks daughter and Bob. They get married in 2 weeks, they've been together for a few months. Seems really fast for a doctor at least, they never mention a pregnancy but that has to be it. We don't see the sister much in the movie. Greg and Pam have been together 10 months and he hasn't talked to the parents at all. Jack doesn't have a running toilet fixed. Jack dumps out an entire bottle of tom collins mix just to have an excuse to go to the store. Why couldn't Jack at least tell his wife that they were planning the honey moon.
Wedding Crashers
Why did the whole family just leave their daughters wedding right in the middle of it.
The Secretary of State of the US has 2 strangers live in his house for the night that weren't invited to the wedding.
Dodgeball had some plot holes. The money is even called deux ex machina. Any others from those or other movies?