| With a premise made for a bad comedy, Honeymoon Crasher mostly lives up to that promise. After Lucas gets dumped at the altar and he’s unable to get a refund for his really expensive, really beautiful, all-expenses paid honeymoon vacation in Mauritius, he agrees to let his mother come with him. At first she just offers as a joke, but he apparently thinks that is less pathetic than going alone. | | 2025
Directed by: Nicolas Cuche
Screenplay by: Nicolas Cuche, Laure Hennequart, Laurent Turner
Starring: Julien Frison, Michèle Laroque
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If it was just going on vacation with his mother, it wouldn’t be so bad. But for the first third of the movie, his mother insists on pretending with everyone they meet, that they’re married, and she has snagged herself a younger man. Now that is pathetic. For the first act of the movie, every joke is a variation of Lily pretending they’re married and Lucas being disgusted at his mother. So the jokes are not just bad, but unoriginal and really tiring. Just a whole trifecta of awfulness.
For the next act of the movie, it wants to be about Lily exploring her freedom and forcing Lucas to loosen up and start seeing her as a woman not just his mother. That would play out a whole lot better if it didn’t spend the first act of the movie making the audience disgusted with Lily.
There are some moments where mother and son start forging a nice relationship, but it’s just so few and far between. I expect most viewers to give up long before it becomes a sweet relationship story.
The movie spends more time furthering Lily’s examination of herself than Lucas. Actually that’s not quite right. It arguably spends equal screentime on both Lily and Lucas’s self reflection, but is way more efficient with Lily. By the end she comes across as a complete character, despite being responsible for all of the awfulness of the earlier jokes.
Lucas starts out as the better character A young man unexpectedly dumped at the altar and watches as his ex-fiancee runs away in her wedding dress and jumps into her ex’s fancy car. He then gets to spend most of the movie being horrified at his mother and flirting with another girl in hopes to get photographs to make his ex-fiancee jealous back home. Other than learning that most people find him boring and he needs to loosen up, there is no character advancement for him.
The premise of Honeymoon Crasher and all the expected jokes are awful. So bad that it becomes difficult to enjoy or appreciate the few sweet moments that come later.
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