-Fred Topel reviewed Destination Wedding for Monsters & Critics. It was a positive review. Some quotes are below.
The dialogue continues to be witty as they actually call each other on their bullsh*t. These kinds of abrasive curmudgeons could easily be insufferable in lesser hands. Reeves and Ryder have the charm to make them endearing without letting them off the hook.
Writer/director Victor Levin gives these characters witty observations and clever expressions of them. The rhythm seems so natural it must be inherent in the script, but I bet that’s Ryder and reeves’ deceptively deft delivery. They’re able to do long takes in a two shot which makes it more powerful than cutting back and forth.
Honestly, Destination Wedding should be a major event. It’s a star vehicle rom com for huge movie stars. That’s what we go to the movies to see, and Destination Wedding delivers more than most of the summer tentpoles.
-Amy Nicholson reviewed Destination Wedding for Variety. She summed up her review with the following:
“Destination Wedding” barely holds together as a coherent film. It’s too callous for coos, too chipper to examine the dark corners of the soul. Yet it works as a valentine to old-fashioned star power — two modern legends, older if no wiser, daring the audience to somehow love them for all their faults, and on that level, somehow succeeding.
-Sara Stewart reviewed Destination Wedding for the New York Post. It was a negative reviewd but she ended with the following:
They both lean hard into the unlikability of their characters, Lindsay and Frank, but fundamentally, they remain adorable. It almost works. It makes you wonder what could have been — because, while both appear not to have aged much since their ’90s heyday, they’ve also both become better actors in the intervening decades. With a superior screenplay, who knows what magic could happen?
-Emily Yoshida reviewed Destination Wedding for Vulture.
-Pat Brown reviewed Destination Wedding for Slant Magazine.
-Peter Travers reviewed Destination Wedding for Rolling Stone and gave it 2/5 stars.
-Michaael Rechtshaffen wrote a negative review for the LA Times.