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.

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?

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.

Stoller’s previous credits include Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Get Him to the Greek (2010) and the underrated Bad Neighbours (2014); his dialogue and instinct for familial malice are both razor-sharp. Witherspoon, in particular, delivers his zingers with the unerring aim of a screwball comedy heroine.

Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon’s Prime Video movie seems destined to be a streaming hit. I’m not sure it should be.

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.

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.”

Reese Witherspoon? Will Ferrell? Put these two together on screen and you’ve got all the makings for a comedy that emulates the same charm of an early 2000s flick—and that’s exactly what you can expect from their new film,