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 outreous rom-com also featuring Geraldine Viswanathan, Jack McBrayer, Rory Scovel.

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.”

You’re Cordially Invited (now streaming on Amazon Prime Video) lures us to Yet Another Goddamn Destination-Wedding Rom-Com with stars Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell, who go mano-a-mano in a love-hate-love-hate-love-hate plot that has to end on one of those notes,

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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.

Their characters deal with a major hitch as their family members get hitched in a consistently funny wedding comedy.

Remember when Hollywood studios used to make comedies? And you could go to the movie theater and laugh at them with a roomful of strangers? That was neat. It would have been nice to watch You’re Cordially Invited that way.

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The seas may dry up and the mountains fall, but nothing will stop the surge of films about wedding disasters. Somewhere there will always be collapsing cakes,

You're Cordially Invited is good for some laughs and has some surprising depth, but has so much going on that it struggles under the weight of it all.