BEST described as Four Weddings meets This Is Spinal Tap - an improvised British comedy centred around that fine tradition of the wedding day viewed as a war zone.

The idea of a totally improvised comedy - with director and creator Debbie Isitt having to make sense out of the hours and hours of film - might make you recoil with horror.

Looking down the cast list gives you hope as there are representatives from TV hits like The Office, Green Wing and The Book Club among the participants. Much of it is very funny as a magazine runs a competition to give one winning couple the wedding of their dreams.

As the editor (Montagu) discovers, finding a winner deserving of the nuptials of their choice and a large house isn't easy. The three finalists are each after different types of ceremony. Freeman and Stevenson want a Hollywood musical-style wedding. Mangan and MacNeill's idea is to have a ceremony with a tennis theme. The most problematical is the couple played by Webb and Colman - they're naturalists and want to get wed in the nude. This makes pinning on a buttonhole very difficult. It's up to camp wedding planners Franklin and Watkins, horribly funny in a limp-wrested, mincing sort of way, to arrange the three diverse weddings and let the judges choose a winner. Freeman and Stevenson are quite sweet as the all-singing, all-dancing bride and bridegroom.

Mangan and MacNeill, on the other hand, are totally obnoxious as the squabbling tennnis players. Webb and Colman deserve a special award for letting it all hang out - quite frequently, quite openly - as the naked wedding couple. It's not exactly Four Weddings, but does have its amusing moments, which isn't something you can say about most British film comedies.

Stars: Martin Freeman, Jessica Stevenson, Stephen Mangan, Meredith MacNeill, Robert Webb, Olivia Colman, Felicity Montagu, Alison Steadman, Vincent Franklin, Jason Watkins, Jimmy Carr
Running Time: 104 mins
Rating: 3 Stars