For Richer or Poorer is a seriously unfunny comedy from director Bryan Spicer, the talent who previously gave us the film version of McHale`s Navy. Brad and Caroline Sexton, Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley, are a pair of greedy New Yorkers whose marriage is on the rocks. Sought by over-eager tax inspectors after his accountant flees the country with his savings, Brad heads for the hills in a stolen taxi, accidentally picking up his wife along the way. They wind up in Amish country, and - we`re asked to accept - successfully pose as an Amish couple from another ordnung... This film starts badly and gets worse. As a rather pitiful satire of Witness, it`s both much too late and much too dumb. And, being a mainstream American comedy, it`s mushy through and through (it`s surely no accident that it`s produced by a company called The Bubble Factory). Allen and Alley give tiresome performances, but then no-one connected with this turkey is seen at their best. It`s predictable, bland, overlong and extremely tedious.
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