It is also 2010, so the racial discomfort of the bride's father (Carlos Mencia) is maybe not as funny as the movie thinks it is, especially as it goes completely unexamined, unexplained and unquestioned.
The groom's father (Forest Whitaker), meanwhile, has his own objections - not to the girl, but to the idea of marriage in general. He's happily divorced, and is weirdly eager to tell his happily engaged son that getting married young could be a grave mistake.
The movie's best feature is its cast. Whitaker and Ferrera do their best to soften and humanize a superficial script. Regina King turns up as a lawyer with a secret crush on Whitaker's aging player, and an actress named Anjelah Johnson makes a nice impression as the bride's sarcastic sister.
"Our Family Wedding" works best when it retreats from the culture-clash material and outright slapstick (like the goat), and concentrates on internal family issues.
Mencia has some nice moments with Diana Maria Riva, playing his wife, a woman who's midlife anxiety suddenly reaches crisis stage as she thinks about her daughter's limitless future, and tries on some of her dresses.
