Hotel De Love

Hotel De Love

Marketed as a sort of Australian Four Weddings And A Funeral knockoff, Hotel De Love is the story of two handsome brothers who fall in love with the same woman as teenagers. Ten years later, one of them has tried to bury the pain of his unrequited love by becoming a workaholic, while the romantically successful brother loses the girl and ends up managing the tacky theme hotel in which the woman in question is getting married to a boring, stable, older psychiatrist. In a superfluous subplot ripped straight from an old episode of Love, American Style, the parents of the brothers arrive at the very same hotel to renew their wedding vows, but the wife is distracted by a mysterious secret admirer. Needless to say, complications ensue. In both concept and execution, Hotel De Love resembles not so much a Four Weddings And A Funeral derivative as a well-written episode of The Love Boat: It's glossy, dumb fun that is diverting enough but forgotten 20 minutes after it's over. Which, for a straight-to-video romantic comedy stuffed with wedding-band versions of golden oldies, is about all that can be expected.

 
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