Anyone remember the NBC dramedy, Ed? It was that goofy but lovable show produced by David Lettermen’s Worldwide Pants, about a guy who moves back to his hometown after a messy divorce to try and win the heart of his secret high school crush, and bought a bowling alley, opening his law practice in the same alley? Yeah, goofy concept. Even goofier was supporting actor Michael Ian Black, who played one of Ed’s self-aggrandizing employees at the bowling alley.

Well, turns out Mr. Black isn’t just a goofball after all; he’s become a director as well and, by the look of things with Wedding Daze, not a bad one. The movie is a bit of a Dharma and Greg concept about two strangers who decide to get married before even knowing each other’s names, but Black’s direction steers clear of the ABC comedy’s obvious tread marks and attempts to take the concept down fresher, less well-trodden paths.

The result is a successful comedy of errors that excels in areas where Good Luck Chuck went blue instead of finding its funny bone. Starring American Pie alum, the appealing Jason Biggs, opposite newcomer Audra Blaser, Biggs plays a depressed guy. Why? Well, he proposed to his girlfriend in public, in a Cupid costume no less, and so surprises her that she has a heart attack and dies on the spot.

A year later, Biggs’ character (Anderson) is still depressed; he’s haunted by the memory of his fiancée-to-be, forgetting her flaws and making it impossible for him to move on. A friend if his tries to get him back on the dating field again, which he doesn’t want to do, but agrees to reluctantly to get the guy off his back. On a whim, he proposes to a waitress at the diner he’s at with his buddy, expecting her to laugh him off so he can get back to mourning. But she shocks him – and herself – by saying yes; mostly because she was considering a proposal from a boyfriend she wasn’t all that into and it provides a convenient escape.

Despite being a bit derivative, the film is good-natured PG-13 fare that stays watchable throughout. Of course, there’s the occasional out-of-nowhere punchline about CAT5e’s, snowblowers or what have you, but that seems to be Black’s style; he not only directed, but wrote the script as well.

Wedding Daze originated as a made-for-TV film, and has been known by other titles such as The Pleasure of Your Company and The Next Girl I See, but whatever its title, it came as a welcome respite in the recent storm of gross-out, sex-obsessed comedies that have been hitting shelves of late.