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THE WEDDING PLANNER is a cute-enough chick-flick that joins Jen- nifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey and a bunch of other beautiful people, wraps 'em tight in a relentlessly upbeat soundtrack of "happy music," and parades 'em back and forth, through various high-dollar, You-Could-Be-Married-Right-Now surroundings. And while they all engage in playful, oh-so-cute banter. In fact, Lopez and McConaughey seem so relaxed that you half-wonder if they even know the cameras are running! (They're real-life beaus, no?) Some bits o' wackiness, too, like the inevitable commandeering (and subsequent fast-driving) of a taxi. Yawn. And an innocuous outdoor mishap involving a limestone penis and Crazy Glue. (Don't ask.) One-hundred minutes (and change) of white gowns, high cheekbones, fancy floral arrangements, spurned suitors who only get "movie sad," and those three or four times when Ms. Lopez is accidentally filmed from a booty-enhancing an- gle. Baby's got *back*! (Well, speaking strictly from hind sight...) Yup, the absoperfectoquintessential date movie, pro- vided (a.) she picked it and (b.) he doesn't snore while sleep- ing. With a bunch of familiar faces, like Joanna Gleason and Alex Rocco (he's still alive!?) and, in one scene as a dance in- structor, Fred Willard in black-plus-gold, coiffed at a crazy an- gle, and wearing pointy mutton chops and one, big, bushy goatee. Perhaps he's channeling Andreas Voutsinas's Carmen Giya from Mel Brooks' THE PRODUCERS? Flaunt it, baby, flaunt it! (Rated "PG- 13"/103 min.) Grade: C+ Copyright 2000 by Michael J. Legeros Movie Hell is a trademark of Michael J. Legeros