Wedding Crashers
John and his buddy, Jeremy are emotional criminals who know how to use a woman's hopes and dreams for their own carnal gain. Their modus operandi: crashing weddings. Normally, they meet guests who want to toast the romantic day with a random hook-up. But when John meets Claire, he discovers what true love – and heartache – feels like.
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- Cast:
- Owen Wilson , Vince Vaughn , Christopher Walken , Rachel McAdams , Isla Fisher , Jane Seymour , Ellen Albertini Dow
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Too much of everything
Surprisingly incoherent and boring
Great Film overall
A Masterpiece!
The Wedding Crashers is a hilarious film about two friends - John and Jeremy - who constantly crashes weddings in order to partake in the celebrations and meet pretty and beautiful women and spend one- night stands with them.It stars Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn,both of whom happens to be a great tandem together with talented supporting cast led by Christopher Walken,Jane Seymour,Isla Fisher,Bradley Cooper and Rachel McAdams. John and Jeremy are lawyers who have become witnesses to ugly separation and divorce battles among couples that led them to have an unpleasant attitudes towards marriage particularly wedding celebrations which felt like a forced enjoyment.This led them to become wedding crashers. After being in many weddings of different ethnicity and cultures,they one day attend the Cleary wedding which led to John and Jeremy into unlikely romantic partnerships with Claire and Gloria respectively which led them changed attitudes towards relationships and marriage.This was definitely one great comedy that is full of witty and raunchy humor.Wilson and Vaughn does not disappoint in delivering jokes and laughs.Added to that,we also get to see great performance from the supporting cast.We see sexy actresses like Seymour,Fisher and McAdams provide appeal and charm to both lead actors and add humor to the story.Also,we get to witness strong performances from both Walken and Cooper as the father of the Cleary daughters and villain respectively.As for the overall picture,the director David Dobkin provided a movie that is both enjoyable and interesting as we get to see exciting wedding celebrations as well as the journey of the characters particularly John and Jeremy especially with their attitude towards love and marriage.
Carried by the supporting cast.Two friends, John (played by Owen Wilson) and Jeremy (Vince Vaughn), crash weddings to pick up women. One day they crash the wedding of the daughter of the Treasury Secretary, Secretary Cleary (Christopher Walken). Instead of short-term flings they end up being invited to the Clearys' island estate, and potentially meet the loves of their lives...Has its moments but mostly quite silly and predictable. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are quite irritating and unfunny (not really a surprise)However, the supporting cast is great and almost makes up for Wilson and Vaughn's ineptness and dullness. Isla Fisher is fantastically over-the-top and scary as the clingy Gloria. Rachel McAdams is wonderful as Claire. Bradley Cooper plays the bad guy for once, and does it extremely well - swarmy, in-your-face and very over-the-top. Christopher Walken is...Christopher Walken. And then there's Jane Seymour as a Mrs Robinson-like Mrs Cleary...Overall - mediocre, but could have been a whole lot worse.
Doesn't sound too promising, does it? Two aging adolescents -- Vincent Vaughan and Owen Wilson -- plan to crash lots of wedding in order to score.They'll introduce themselves as distant family members with adventurous but tragic pasts. They'll invent tales of their achievements. They'll wear Purple Hearts to the events. And it works. They stuff themselves on cake, oysters, and champagne and the beautiful girls are all over them. They dance to a hora at Jewish weddings. At Irish weddings, they present themselves this way, "My name is Sean O'Ryan and I want to get drunk."Then the inevitable happens. They crash the wedding party attended by the Secretary of State. (John McCain and James Carville do a cameo.) The Secretary is Christopher Walken and he has two gorgeous young daughters. Vaughan falls for the maniacal nympho, who is half his height and given to S/M. Wilson falls for the sensible Rachel McAdams, although she is already engaged to a snooty ex-preppy. It all works out. That's why this can be called a romantic comedy.Actually, the first half of the movie is pretty funny. Yes, the whole shtick is out of one of those raunchy teen-aged comedies, but these guys are funny.Vincent Vaughan is a tall, beefy loudmouth who seems to have trouble with comedy, although he's got some good lines. He's great as a cheerful villain, as he was in "Clay Pigeons," but light-heartedness almost defeats him and there's a speed bump whenever he has a scene.Owen Wilson, on the other hand, is good at light comedy. It's hard to imagine his doing anything else. When I first saw him on screen I didn't like him because he resembled Robert Redford, whom I loathe for being more handsome than I, but Wilson grows on you. You get to find that uneven nose endearing. It wanders down the center of his face, an archipelago of flesh.Christopher Walken is immediately funny. He can't help it. Even in dramatic parts, those wondering eyes, that curious gargle of a New York voice, conjure up the conviction that he thinks being in a movie is absurd, that EVERYTHING is absurd. Maybe he OD'd on Sartre in his youth. He'd be funny as King Lear.The guru behind this wedding-crashing business is Will Ferrell. I wish he were funny because he tries so hard, but maybe that's the problem, in addition to his chthonic visage. By the end, he's given up crashing weddings and now crashes funerals. He's not as funny as the doddering old mother he sponges off, the tiny lady who suddenly belows, "Chazz! It's a friend of yours! Get the f*** down here -- and put away your skateboard!" The "girls" are as good as the boys. Better even, because both Rachel McAdams and Isla Fisher are pretty girls. Fisher, as Walken's younger daughter, whacks off Vaughan under the table at the family dinner and leaves him tied up at night so that the family's creepy homosexual son can have a go at him. There is a rich hint of lunacy in her squint.Rachel McAdams is revoltingly cute. She could have been drawn by a cartoonist. Every singular feature is in its rightful place and her bottom wriggles deliciously when she walks.I got a kick out of it until it bogged down in its second half, when it got a little maudlin about true love being the awareness of one soul of a corresponding resonance in another soul or some such nonsense. Still, some of the lines show that a bit of thought went into them. "He's so dumb he thinks Moby Dick is a venereal disease."
10 years after the release of this movie, it still has several laugh out loud moments and it is still a lot of fun.Plot In A Paragraph: John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) are best friends who spend their time crashing weddings they are not invited to, to pick up women. Trouble arises when they attend the wedding of the daughter of Senator Clearey (the always brilliant Christopher Walken) and John falls for bridesmaid Claire (Rachel McAdams) and Jeremy gets Sybil with an obsessed clingy bridesmaid Gloria (Isla Fisher) Wilson and Vaughn share a great easy chemistry, which enjoys some easy natural banter. They make the movie what it is!! Isla Fisher and Rachel McAdams are both good and Bradley Cooper (so usually the charming good guy) is surprisingly good as the douche boyfriend of McAdams. Jane Seymour still looks great, and is a lot of fun (although under used) as McAdams promiscuous mother. There is a fun cameo appearance and Keir O Donnell steals every scene he is in!! It is a little over long and it turns in to a typical Rom Com in the final act, but it doesn't stop the enjoyment of it.