Overall Rating
  Awesome: 18.7%
Worth A Look: 39.84%
Average: 21.14%
Pretty Bad: 8.13%
Total Crap: 12.2%
8 reviews, 75 user ratings
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| Wedding Crashers |
by Brian McKay
"Bore Weddings and a Funeral . . . for comedy"
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As I still try to pull myself out of a mind-numbing stupor from watching what I thought would be a much more hilarious movie, I can only say thank God for Vince Vaughn and his over-the-top obnoxiousness. While it may have become so unbearable that it dragged down a film like MADE, it was the only thing that managed to strangle any laughter at all out of this lethargic, contrived, formulaic, bloated, overly-sentimental to the point of being maudlin, dull, and only sporadically amusing piece of shit.I don't know what I was expecting from THE WEDDING CRASHERS - perhaps somethin akin to the bastard offspring of THE WEDDING SINGER and OLD SCHOOL. Unfortunately, it wasn't nearly as good as either of those movies (and although I had fun with both of them, they were 3 star efforts at best). The script is weak, the dialogue trite, and literally the only thing that saves it from completely tanking is the ferociousness that Vaughn tackles every line with.
John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) are a pair of divorce mediators who, ironically I suppose, crash weddings in order to meet horny single women and get laid. After a summer of crashing weddings and being the life of the party, they decide to crash the wedding of a politician's daughter (witht he part of dad being phoned in by Christopher Walken - and you know there's something wrong with a movie when Christopher Walken doesn't get, or give, even one goddamn funny line of dialogue). As fortune would have it, the bride has two hot sisters, one a raving nymphomaniac Gloria (Isla Fisher) who is instantly smitten with Jeremy, the other a level-headed save-the-world idealist (Rachel McAdams), who John falls for. The two end up being invited out to the family's island estate for the weekend, where all kinds of formulaic and predictable hijinks can ensue. As John tries every trick at his disposal to woo Claire away from her obnoxious asshole boyfriend (aren't they always in movies like this? and yet the girl always has to go through some big long bout of soul searching before she realizes her boyfriend is a worthless cocksucker and settles on the protagonist), Jeremy tries to wriggle out of his relationship with the crazy-ass (but sexually hot) Gloria.
Although there are some laugh out loud moments (again, 90 percent of these are because of Vaughn, while Wilson manages to pull out a funny moment or two of slop), the film quickly meanders into romantic-comedy territory, spending far too much time on John and Claire's courtship with eternal and unbearably sappy scenes of them riding bikes and walking on the beach and laughing and smiling and blah blah fucktitty blah. If I wanted to see that shit, I'd go to a Kate Hudson or Gwyneth Paltrow movie. I came to see a lowbrow but clever raunch comedy, and at least half of the film's two hour running time is anything but.
Yes, you heard me. Two hours. For the love of God, is there any concievable reason why a formulaic comedy like this has to go on for TWO HOURS? Maybe I wouldn't have minded if I hadn't felt nearly every minute of it passing like syrup through a coffee stirrer. But the biggest annoyance is just how contrived and implausible EVERYTHING about this movie is. Granted that it's a comedy, and a certain suspension of disbelief is par for the course, but are we seriously expected to believe that a guy like Will Farrell (yes, he's in it too) can go pick up hot women at their boyfriends' funeral by acting like . . . well, like Will Farrell?I hope they have a WEDDING CRASHERS: SPECIAL EDITION DVD. It should be about 15-20 minutes long, and only show Vince Vaughn going on a string of rants. That's really all that's worth seeing in this movie. Well, that and all the breasts they show in the first act.
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originally posted: 07/27/05 12:10:28
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USA
15-Jul-2005 (R)
DVD: 03-Jan-2006
UK
N/A
Australia
11-Aug-2005
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