Review | Double Happiness movie review: Liu Kuan-ting, Jennifer Yu delight in clever wedding comedy
A couple have two simultaneous wedding ceremonies to keep their parents apart in Double Happiness, an ingenious comedy of errors
4/5 stars
Few events in life are more stressful than planning your wedding day given the myriad details and complexities to consider, from simple logistics to traditions, superstitions and even financial expectations.
Hosting two ceremonies simultaneously might seem foolish, but to attempt to keep each one secret from the other, while being the centre of attention at both, could drive any bride and groom to the brink of madness.
Tim (Liu Kuan-ting) is the head chef at a high-end Taipei hotel, where he is set to marry his Hong Kong fiancée, Daisy (Jennifer Yu Heung-ying). But Tim has a problem: his divorced parents absolutely loathe each other and refuse to be in the same room together.
Rather than favour one parent, Tim makes the misguided decision to stage two entirely separate banquets concurrently, on different floors of the same hotel, and ping-pong back and forth between the two over the course of the day.