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Wedding Crashers
John
Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Klein (Vince Vaughn) are
two friends who, in their own minds, seem to have found the
perfect answer to perpetual single-hood. They crash
weddings, looking for lonely, despondent women, play to
their sensibilities and then take them home. Their perfect
plan goes awry when Owen Wilson falls for one of the
bridesmaids (Rachel McAdams, Claire Cleary) at a high
profile wedding. Jeremy is dragged along as John’s “wingman”
on a weekend getaway with Claire’s family, hoping to help
him get the woman of his dreams.
To complicate matters, Rachel’s family immediately latches
onto the two young men, from William (Christopher Walken)
the straight man of the supporting cast and his wife and
Kathleen (Jane Seymour) who has a fascination with teasing
young men with her breasts, to Claire’s sister Gloria (Isla
Fisher) who goes crazy for Jeremy and her asocial brother
Todd (Keir O’Donnell) who expresses his appreciation for
Jeremy in some of the very same ways, along with a memorable
cameo by Will Ferrell as their mentor who has figured out a
unique way to take the wedding crashing idea to an all new
high.. um err.. low. With the help of the supporting cast,
this movie takes full advantage of it’s “R” rating, creating
some of the most awkward sexual humor I have ever laughed
at, while at the same time looking around to make sure I
wasn’t the one laughing of course.
Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are hilarious together. Owen
Wilson’s calm and sometimes unassuming demeanor plays
perfectly against Vince Vaughn’s hyper active
aggressiveness. The scenes with just the two of them
together, some of the more subtle humor in the film, was
some of the best comedic chemistry I have seen in a very
long time.
On the whole, the film’s attempt to tell a coherent story
only gets in the way of laughing until my gut hurt. The lack
of any kind of story can be forgiven, because this movie is
really only about moving on to the next over the top joke.
And this movie is more than funny enough to compensate.
On a scale of one out of ten stars, I give this film 8
stars.
