The most surprising thing about this by-the-numbers comedy, in fact, is that it comes to us from writer-director Nicholas Stoller. He updated Kermit & Co. so delightfully in “The Muppets,” tartly reconceived the revenge rom-com with “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” and scored on the small screen with both “Platonic” and the updated “Goosebumps.”

This Prime Video rom-com is much funnier when its leads are flirting with disaster than it is when they're flirting with each other.

The wedding invites are in the mail and June 1 is around the corner, but Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell have just one little problem in their new Prime Video flick, You’re Cordially Invited: The venue they both separately reserved is overbooked.

Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell are an awkward couple in the new rom-com "You're Cordially Invited." Maybe they'd have been better off as friends?

A review of 'You're Cordially Invited' with Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell in romantic comedy in which two families book the same wedding hotel

Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon are rivals who crash each other's wedding parties in the unfunny Prime Video rom-com "You're Cordially Invited."

Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell have teamed up for You're Cordially Invited on Prime Video, an outrageous rom-com also featuring Geraldine Viswanathan, Jack McBrayer, Rory Scovel.

Are you with Reese Witherspoon or Will Ferrell? “You're Cordially Invited,” a new comedy directed by Nicholas Stoller, brings together two stars whose movie worlds are nearly as divided as wedding guests on separate sides of the aisle.

The wedding invites are in the mail and June 1 is around the corner, but Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell have just one little problem in their new Prime Video flick, You're Cordially Invited: The venue they both separately reserved is overbooked.

Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Neighbors, Bros) is one of Hollywood’s few reliable comedy directors, and though You’re Cordially Invited, which premieres Jan. 30 on Prime Video, won’t be remembered as his crowning clownish achievement,

Their characters deal with a major hitch as their family members get hitched in a consistently funny wedding comedy.