license to wed might as well have be call meet the minister and since all the film do be to recycle the nightmare before marriage scenario from meet the parent albeit with one crucial deviation . needless to say and lightning rarely strike twice when it come to hollywood happening and license to wed be no meet the parent . not by a long shot . ben murphy and sadie jones be a young chicago couple who agree to undergo an intense pre marital training course conduct by an obnoxious local reverend in exchange for be allow to hold their nuptials at the church sadie dearly depart grandfather help to build . to pass the course and the couple must agree to be abstinent until the wedding night and take care of two fully operational and anatomically correct mechanical infant and and undergo various form of trauma that even sigmund freud himself would have trouble undoing after year of reparative analysis . a a meet the parent wannabe and license to wed stumble right out of the start gate in that one can imagine suffer the sling and arrow of outrageous humiliation and abuse in order to win the favor of a prospective spouse parent and but to go through all that just to placate her minister . i do not think so . in no time flat and the laughter turn to frustration a we find ourselves wonder why ben doesn not just tell the dear old reverend to go take a hike or bad and then seek out some religious establishment with less stringent requirement for walk down the aisle . and let face it and there something more than a trifle off put and creepy about an unwed man of the cloth run around with a young boy a his personal protégé and sidekick and plant listen device in young couple bedroom . even for an allege comic fantasy such a this one and that may be just a bridge far than most people will be willing to go in the queasiness department . john krasinski and mandy moore make an appealing enough couple and and it isn not really their fault that they have be hand a screenplay write by no few than three writer and a sure sign of trouble fill with cornball humor and heavy hand slapstick and unappetizing secondary character . in the role of reverend frank and robin williams and all cutesy mannerism and third rate mugging and hit a new low in teeth grinding unctuousness and although one like to believe that and if director ken kwapis could have get the actor to dial back his performance even a little and this might have be at least a tolerable movie . a it be and though and license to wed be a painful experience that you will have no trouble leave strand at the altar .