Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates... and you need to get your s***t together

We've talked before about the impact of others in our lives, specially family, but also friends and relationships leave a mark through time that will stay with us even if we already move on. We are who we are because the sum of all those experiences and what we learn from the people around us. We build our expectations about us and others in base of what we learn from role models like our parents, siblings or friends. Family is a stigma that we can't deny. It's a connection stronger than us, and if we let them will stuck with us for a long time or forever but we need to learn how to manage it, find our own identity and be able to stand up for ourselves, identify what we like and we don't from our heritage and deal with it, being capable of accept and respect others for their own choices but allowing us to have ours and fight for them. But in order to do all that we need to accept it. Like any addiction, we can get caught in it without knowing or realizing what is happening or even if knowing, denying it just as an excuse to not face it letting us hide all our problems or situation behind it, so we need to man up and start growing up facing our problems and any situation not matter how hard it us just to convince ourselves we are the person we always wanted to even if no one believes in us.

All this sounds too deep and too serious for a raunch comedy, but as everything in life, there are layers in every situation, so as funny as life can be, there will be a bit of seriousness in it or the opposite, we just need to find the right balance, and even that's not what the new movie "MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES" (2016) was intended to be, it's a movie that tries to be as funny as raunchy but ends having a bit of soul and deepness that works in favor of it's hilarious cast and maybe that's one of the main things that works against it, that even has some really good jokes and moments, it never defines it's style or gets too edgy to stand up as the new raunchy option out there. And for those who are lost about the thin line between a comedy and it's trashy sister, this means that it's sense of humor will be more edgy, straight, direct, unrated, trying to show how low can someone can go trying to be funny or make fun of things, using cleaver but naught or double meaning jokes instead of dark, smart sense of humor. So when we are sitting for the movie to start we are ready to be thrown by stupid moments made by idiots trying to have a fun time while learning a lesson in life.

So what's going on this time?, well we have the story, poorly based on a real story, of two brothers that happen to be party boys, the ones that can't do anything good for their family but getting in trouble and ruining every holiday or occasion while trying to get some attention or just having pure fun. Those are Mike and Dave. Two ordinary guys that we probably have seen in our own families or somewhere else. They are not trying to be smart or pretend to take anything serious but just go away with what they want and have fun all along. Mike is the oldest of the family. He's a wreck. Likes and need attention, so can be loud and extrovert dragging his younger brother into it, but also has been there always for him, being a good brother and standing up for him, that way Dave will look after him as love and gratitude towards his older brother, helping him in all his quests, even joining him as partner in business even when he doesn't like what they are doing and his aspirations move in other direction. But now is the time for both to take a break and behave, start growing up, as their parents request them to find a decent date to bring to their sister's wedding and behave as mature respectable  guys not ruining their sister big moment, eve when the sister is also traded in this need of good behaving marrying a guy she doesn't know if it's the right one.

So far there's nothing we haven't seen, but when the two dates come to the picture things get a twist as these two young girls are just pretending to be nice girls in order for them to take them to Hawaii for the wedding as a free vacation trip, because they need that break. These two girls are all messed up in their lives that need some perspective to put their shit together and move on. Tatiana and Alice are party girls, because not only guys have fun, and they know how to have fun. They've been traveling, partying, doing drugs, getting waisted, switching jobs, just to avoid their own reality. Alice was stood up in her own wedding by her fiancé, and since then she hasn't move on from that pain, pushing away everybody else and trying to avoid being present so she can't feel the pain. And Tatiana is so afraid of failure and not being successful enough that always treat everyone with disrespect and so confident to protect herself but at the same time this works against her, letting her out from any chance of connect wth someone or meet someone that would believe in her helping her to achieve her dreams or prove her the opposite.

So when these two pairs collide, things start happening as they meet their match and their true selfs starts to show up, bringing the best and the worst of them. Of course we are talking about a comedy so you better be ready for a bunch of laughing out loud situations while the guys and the girls try to prove who's best, and while Dave and Alice find a romantic connection, is Tatiana and Mike that find a match in their darkest side, touching each ones insecurities, becoming a challenge for each other and turning on a sexual tension between them. So while all of them pretend to be nice people and behave in from of the family as they require, following all social etiquette's is their own fears and insecurities what will take us to trouble and will show them at the end what they need to do to move on and finally be what they are meant for. Realizing that maybe they have been a bad influence for each other, stopping them to move on and achieve their own dreams would be the best decision but not before having some fun and screwing up things while learning how to love, have sex, get high, and embrace their own ideals without fear of judgement, specially from family, because seems like their job is to shut us down, so why not liberate yourself for a moment and have fun, laugh, get drunk and enjoy life with the people you like and choose to have in your life and always remember to stand up for yourself and embrace the fact that you'll screw it up a bunch of times in the process but that's the fun about it.