By Jake Coyle
The Associated Press
One enters a movie like “Our Family Wedding” bracing for cheesiness.
As a genre, wedding films typically are as cloying as two hours worth of kitten videos on YouTube. Add in the equally checkered history of stridently ethnic movies, and you might want to start asking moviegoers to remove their belts before entering the theater.
But as Rick Famuyiwa’s “Our Family Wedding” — which combines both elements — moves along, the fingers in front of one’s eyes (usually a shield reserved for horror films) slowly part. The realization dawns that Famuyiwa has made a mostly charming movie despite its cliche milieu.