“Innocuous, predictable and well-cast” is about all the praise “Mother of the Bride” warrants, unless you consider another movie featuring the lovely scenery of Phuket, Thailand a deal-maker.

Looking for laughs in this Brooke Shields comedy is like panning for gold on a sunny beach in paradise — not the best use of your time or the location.

Shields stars as a driven, highly-strung single-mom geneticist whose daughter (“School of Rock” alumna Miranda Cosgrove) is terrified of telling her she’s just gotten engaged. Why? Mom’s not that bad.

She’s pretty cool about “the fact that you’re marrying a guy with initials” — RJ (Sean Teale) — “and not a name.” The wedding’s in Thailand because of daughter Emma’s new “brand ambaddasor” gig for a resort? In a month? OK. Fine. Whatever.

But about the father of the groom…

Benjamin Bratt classes up the joint as that dad, a fellow Mom had a long romance with back at Stanford. No problem, once we’ve gotten the “If RJ is my half-brother, the wedding’s off” joke out of the way. Sure, it’ll be “awkward.” But “awkward funny,” right?

Nope. Pratfalls, the “pickle ball incident,” Mom and Dad thrown together with romantic possibilities, a younger doctor nicknamed “sexy Doogie Howser” (Chad Michael Murray) might spice things up, but doesn’t. Aunt of the bride Janice (Rachael Harris) should sass things up, but doesn’t. The pushy corporate “brand” protecting wedding planner (Tasneem Roc) isn’t as hateable as is necessary. And so on.

Shields’ sitcom-polished mugging and reaction shots can’t wring giggles out of a tepid screenplay. And director Mark Waters is a long way from his “Mean Girls” glory and “Bad Santa 2” “edge.”

So there it is, a blase wedding with little romance and almost no laughs takes place in Thailand. I guess you had to be there — on set, a working vacation — to get anything out of it.

Rating: TV-14

Cast: Brooke Shields, Benjamin Bratt, Miranda Cosgrove, Rachael Harris and Sean Teale.

Credits: Directed by Mark Waters, scripted by Robin Bernheim. A Netflix release.

Running time: 1:30