Pretty confident the producers of Maybe I Do have an I Know What You Did Last Summer level of blackmail on Richard Gere, Diane Keaton, Susan Sarandon, and William H. Macy. How else to explain how such Hollywood elder statesmen would wind up in such an overly talky unfunny smudge of a rom-com?

The flick stars these four luminaries plus a dangling carrot for younger folk in the guise of Emma Roberts and Luke Bracey. They all play various combinations of couples who talk, and talk, and talk, and talk and oh my god why aren’t they saying something interesting or funny? Oh… where was I? The young couple is getting married and their parents, to everyone’s surprise, are having affairs with each other.

It’s very contrived and so very unlikely… but the thing that kills me most is that it takes over half the movie to slam these people into one room and actually show off its contrivance in a way that might have been funny. It wasn’t… but it might have been.

Richard Gere seems bored and ill-suited to the kind of comedy he’s playing, William H. Macey and Diane Keaton are just doing a non-challenging version of what they always do, and only Susan Sarandon has a meaty role as an amused agent of chaos. And, sure, Emma Roberts and Luke Bracey can be in the movie too sometimes.

I was pretty much bored with every moment of this flick except occasionally when Susan Sarandon was eating up the rest of the cast. I wish we had as much fun as she was having. But instead we’re just served up endless uninteresting dialog by a cast who are too big for this picture (and that includes Roberts and Bracey).

Score: 58