Taglines: They needed hot dates. They got hot messes.
The Stangle brothers Mike (Adam DeVine) and Dave (Zac Efron) frequently ruin family events with their dangerous antics. In order to prevent them from ruining their sister’s upcoming wedding in Hawaii, their parents mandate that they attend the wedding with dates. Their appearance on The Wendy Williams Show to advertise themselves catches the attention of Tatiana (Aubrey Plaza) and Alice (Anna Kendrick).
After pretending to be civilized and respectable, Tatiana and Alice secure Mike and Dave as their respective dates. However, when they get to Hawaii, Mike and Dave find that their dates are much more wild and unhinged than they anticipated.
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is a 2016 American comedy film directed by Jake Szymanski and written by Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O’Brien. The film stars Zac Efron and Adam DeVine as the title characters, who put out an ad for dates to their sister’s wedding, and features Anna Kendrick and Aubrey Plaza as the girls who answer the ad.
The film is based on a real Craigslist ad placed by two brothers who wanted dates for their cousin’s wedding that went viral in February 2013, which they then turned into a book, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates: and A Thousand Cocktails. The film premiered in Los Angeles on June 30, 2016 and was theatrically released on July 8, 2016, by 20th Century Fox. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed over $77 million worldwide.
About the Story
Brothers Mike and Dave Stangle are liquor salesmen whose antics ruin their family’s gatherings. With their younger sister Jeanie’s wedding in Hawaii approaching, their parents tell them they must bring dates to the wedding to keep them out of trouble. Mike and Dave put out an ad for dates on Craigslist. The ad goes viral and the brothers go on The Wendy Williams Show to advertise themselves.
Meanwhile, Tatiana and Alice are slacker party girls who have just been fired for showing up to their waitressing jobs drunk. Tatiana sees the brothers’ appearance on TV and decides that this free trip is just the vacation they need. They clean themselves up and Tatiana, to get their attention, throws herself in front of a moving car outside the bar where the brothers are meeting women. After letting the brothers think Mike saved Tatiana’s life, they all go on a date. Tatiana, posing as a school teacher, flirts with Mike but has no intention of having sex with him. Alice, who is pretending to be a hedge fund manager, thinks sleeping with Dave is just what she needs to get over her ex-fiance, who left her at the altar. Thinking their family will like these girls, the brothers invite them to Hawaii.
In Hawaii, Tatiana and Alice charm the Stangle family but are almost exposed when Alice, suffering PTSD-like flashbacks of her own wedding, gets drunk and makes jealous, offhanded comments to Jeanie. At the same time Mike and his bisexual female cousin, Terry, begin competing for Tatiana’s attention. The brothers book a swim-with-dolphins package for the family; however, the girls convince Jeanie and her fiance, Eric, to take an ATV tour through the mountains instead. Alice and Tatiana show off and perform tricks on their ATVs. Mike attempts the same trick but ends up crashing into Jeanie and severely bruising her face. Alice feels bad and bribes a masseur to give Jeanie a massage with a tantric style “happy ending”.
Tatiana goes into a sauna and runs into Terry. She offers Tatiana backstage passes to Rihanna if Tatiana fingers her. Dave finds himself falling for Alice and opens up to her about his dream of drawing full-time. Later Mike walks in on Jeanie having an orgasm during the massage. Upon finding Tatiana and Terry together, Mike storms off and Tatiana admits she was only interested in the free vacation. At the rehearsal dinner, Jeanie opens up to Alice about her fears about getting married. To help calm her nerves, Alice gives her ecstasy, which causes a bad trip. Mike drags Dave backstage and demands he practice their speech instead of spending more time with Alice. They get into an argument, and Mike reveals what happened in the massage parlor – unaware that they are being broadcast over the speaker system. The argument gets physical in front of the entire wedding party.
Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates
Directed by: Jake Szymanski
Starring: Zac Efron, Anna Kendrick, Adam DeVine, Aubrey Plaza, Stephen Root, Kumail Nanjiani, Sugar Lyn Beard, Alice Wetterlund
Screenplay by: Andrew Jay Cohen, Brendan O’Brien
Production Design by: Tyler B. Robinson
Cinematography by: Matthew Clark
Film Editing by: Lee Haxall, Jonathan Schwartz
Art Direction by: Mark Garner, Caleb Mikler
Music by: Jeff Cardoni
MPAA Rating: R for crude sexual content, language throughout, drug use and some graphic nudity.
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: July 8, 2016
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