“Love Forever” is an overpopulated Swedish wedding farce that offers more possibilities than payoffs.

Writer-director Staffan Lindberg throws in lots of tropes and “types” and reaches for plenty of low-hanging fruit in this comedy about city Swedes shoehorned into a country wedding, where “It’s a tradition” trumps pretty much all other considerations.

The tone is jovial and comically irritating in the right ways, but so much and so many are shoved in that this tame tying-of-the-knot tale never quite consummates.

Hanna (Matilda Källström) loves “celebrity chef” Samuel (Charlie Gustafsson) so much that she’s said “Yes” (In subtitled Swedish, or dubbed).

We catch up with her as her Stockholm friends, led by her bestie Linda (Doreen Ndagire), are taking her out for a bachelorette party (a “hen do”).

Samuel’s talked his assistant chef Marco (Philip Oros) into joining him for the jaunt to the quaint island of Gotland for the wedding. Others from the happy couple’s inner circle have booked flights and ferry passage for the weekend ceremony

But Hanna’s rich, self-absorbed jerk Dad (Kjell Bergqvist) and bullied Mom (Anja Lundqvist) won’t be joining one and all the day before to help with any last minute prep. Real-estate broker Dad is too self-important to change his routine. And he’s dismissive of his daughter’s choice for a husband.

And that opens the door to Samuel’s provincial parents to taking over. It starts with complaints about “How can we get to know” the bride’s parents if they don’t come early, and mushrooms into a parade of wedding rituals that dismay the Stockholmers.

Hanna’s sleek designer dress must be shelved, as her future mother-in-law (Barbro ‘Babben’ Larsson) has altered her “traditional” folk costume wedding dress, which “three generations” of brides in their family have worn.

A planned “intimate” wedding is ditched, without the bride and groom’s consent, because his parents “feel sorry for you, having so few friends.”

They’d love to get a preacher to do the “traditional” ceremony, but Hanna and Samuel stand firm on their “civil ceremony” desires. Even when mishaps start piling up on this and other best-laid-plans for the two days and just getting a sane, sober civil servant to officiate seems a lot to ask.

Martin and Helene, the bride’s parents, pay the price for Martin’s haughty refusal to lift a finger to help get them there.

As Marco and Linda — who used to be a couple — cope with that awkwardness and Samuel reveals himself to be a “Mama’s boy” and his older, jealous brother (Vilhelm Blomgren) and his mates kidnap the groom for a rough and tumble “stag do,” we wonder how long this “happy” couple will remain happy, and if they’ll ever tie the knot.

Writer-director Lindberg (“Once Upon a Time in Phuket,” “Love is a Drug”) fills the 90 minute screenplay with complications, coincidences and conflict — handy obstacles standing in the way of “true love.”

But to a one, they’re under-developed, half-baked and left dangling without a decent payoff.

One expects “the last rental car on the island” to be a late model Tercel debacle and a simple punchline. But the many efforts to get someone to officiate at the ceremony waste promising supporting characters and a nice third act twist.

The narrative loses track of the couple and arbitrarily escalates their unhappiness out of turn. Hanna’s fury at her groom’s spinelessness should build into a fury, not simply arrive there.

Supporting cast and throwaway characters and random bits here and there work. But the “Love Forever” whole never gels into anything more than a tiny taste of Swedish “traditions” and an Around the World with Netflix trip that never gets off the ground.

Rating: TV-MA, profanity

Cast: Matilda Källström, Charlie Gustafsson,
Kjell Bergqvist, Anja Lundqvist, Doreen Ndagire, Philip Oros, Claes Malmberg and Barbro ‘Babben’ Larsson

Credits: Scripted and directed by Staffan Lindberg. A Netflix release.

Running time: 1:30