rachel getting married

i had heard good things about this movie, and anne hathaway even got an oscar nomination from the film. the small story is about a woman returning home from rehab to attend her sister's wedding. as the movie unfolds, the reason for her being in rehab in the first place become clear, as well as its impact on the entire family. the movie does a great job of showing what its like to be the black sheep of the family as well as big topics like trust, forgiveness, acceptance, and loss. we feel for hathaway's character as she is put back into a situation where she is blamed for things that she did in her past and we see how hard it can be for those closest to you to forgive and try to move past costly mistakes. this is a good movie. so why am i only giving it two stars? well, because of the marriage itself. the movie spends about 10 minutes of its 90 minute run time on the wedding and its reception. there is no dialog, just shots of people talking and dancing. the wedding itself is not a traditional wedding, its some sort of strange hippie/indian/bollywood/african/drum circle type thing that is so pretentious and overwrought that it quite literally ruined the movie for me. during the ten minutes of this nonsense, i had forgotten about all the great realistic portrayals that came before it. instead it just felt like some sort of cultural mishmash of stuffy arrogance and unrealistic make believe. sorry, but all my positive feelings for the movie were washed away by the incessant impossible fantasy of the wedding itself. people like this and events like this dont actually exist. the movie was a deep drama about life issues and then becomes some sort of fantasy less believable than something from 'care bears' or 'my little pony'.