Wedding Crashers (DVD) (WS) (Unrated)

OF course love this movie. Such a funny one to watch!

Awesome movie.

Yes, consider me shallow and superficial, but every once in a while, I like to laugh during a movie while a breast is flashed or a curse word is uttered. In recent years, with the PG-13-ification of film comedies, we haven't had a decent, smart, fun R-rated laugh riot. I take that back...wasn't "There's Something About Mary" R-rated? Anyways, "Wedding Crashers" is a giddy, giggling comedy about two buds who crash weddings with enthusiasm and aplomb. By their own admission, "wedding season" is better than Christmas. The opening montage sets the stage, as they crash five weddings of varying religious denominations. Right off the bat, you get the sense that they do this not just for the free food and the strategically beneficial female-to-male ratios, but because they genuinely love being there, meeting new people and in some over-arching sense, being part of the entertainment. Whether it's dancing with the flower girl, offering toasts in the native language, or making balloon animals for the kids (all of which can be found in the "Rules of Wedding Crashing"), you get a sense that they almost earn their free admission. As events lead to the big wedding-to-be-crashed, you can see for miles ahead where this film is going. You can in most comedies. But the way this film gets there is constantly surprising and entertaining. And funny. Funny funny funny. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn make a terrific combo. They take their caricatured personas and humanize them. Wilson, the de facto romantic lead, has never been more appealing, with his laconic delivery and winning smile. Vaughn is the perfect counterpoint, with his hysterical verbal diarrhea being the source of countless classic lines. It's not that he can't stop talking...you don't want him to. And you get the feeling that the characters responding to him in the film don't want him to either. Rachel McAdams, last year's It girl, radiates intelligence as well as a totally approachable beauty. Christopher Walken does Christopher Walken and it works. You imagine people going behind his back, saying "Doesn't the Treasury Secretary remind you of Christopher Walken?" Jane Seymour has few moments, and tries to make the most of them. There will be one scene that most everyone will remember, and deservedly so. She plays with our preconceptions of "Jane Seymour" and she uses it to be funny. Bradley Cooper erases his "Alias" image as a supreme bastard. The poorly kept secret cameo near the end of the film was a hoot. But for me, the dizzying delight of the film was the outright lunacy of Isla Fisher, playing the "level 5 virgin clinger" Gloria. Every scene she's in, she gives off manic fireworks. There's the dinner table scene where she's...well...she's "playing" with Vince Vaughn. If you tear your eyes away from Vaughn's uproarious mugging, you'll see a crazed nymphet clearly teetering on the edge of psychosis. Gleefully so. The technical details of the film and the DVD are all fine. The supplements are enough to whet your appetite after the film, and by all means, sample some of the audio commentary by Vaughn and Wilson. As I understand it, the Unrated version offers a few more breasts, and some extension of "goth" brother's scenes. "Wedding Crashers" is a great way to laugh for two hours!

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Can I join Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as they crash weddings for their own gain? Or could Will Ferrell just teach me the rules of wedding crashing so I can go out and do it on my own? I'd certainly be up for an invitation for a weekend at Rachel McAdams's family compound. No matter what I'd get, I'd watch (and have done so) this film over and over again. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are living a dream of having fun without regard for the consequences (at least for a while) and viewers will soon be clammering to join them on their wild escapades. But what this duo truely manages to accomplish is to restrain their antics to the point where they don't become absolutely ubsird (just plain ubsird is reached and that's just fine) while making it look like they are making no such effort. I can't quite figure out whether to think of Christopher Walken as creepy, menacing, clueless, or what, and that's part of his charm in the film. Though they share few, if any, scenes, Jane Seymour nicely plays off this characterization to make herself the relentless cougar who has given up on any actual meaning to her marriage to Walken's character. Rachael McAdams shines in this film and you'll find yourself hoping for her and Wilson's characters to get together the moment he targets her for his (at the time) plans for a one-night-stand (in case you're concerned, those plans seem to go out the window with a cinderblock tied to them before the reception's over, so you can relax...there's already a desire for something more.) In my mind, Isla Fisher is forever type-cast in this role as McAdams's somewhat nutty and certainly manipulative sister (not a bad thing for this film but it might be a hinderence for future projects.) Bradley Cooper may be playing a stereotypical villainous jock-type boyfriend to McAdams who's more interested in himself than her or anyone else, but he plays it so well that you can't help but want him gone...and Owen Wilson takes us in that direction with an eyedropper. Ellen Albertini Dow (there's a mouthful) and Keir O'Donnell round out this nutty family as the foul-mouthed grandmother and artistic homosexual brother who develops feelings for Vince Vaughn. Is it just me or is Jenny Alden the only sane member of that family? Well, whether sane or insane, the family, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, and the rest of the cast come together to make a movie that will leave you laughing and wanting to watch them again for more laughs. Enjoy.

I've been in the process of digitizing my DVD collection and pounced to buy this when I saw it on sale. It's worth owning and has aged well. It's still just as funny as when it came out.

We're just two brothers attending this wedding, and NOT two wedding crashers. To prove it, let me recite a saying from the home country, "truth speaks even though the tongue were dead." We're Sean and Don O'Gonigal—Rudy's boys. This film is dear to our hearts. We don't get to experience an event like this very often at the Okinawa Eating Club, where we're stationed. And we definitely don't experience events like this very often, because we're NOT wedding crashers who crash weddings every weekend. What else is there left to say about Owen and Vince that hasn't already been said? They were at Princeton together but didn't meet during their studies, however, something funny happened on the way to the future. I haven't seen performances this spectacular since my ballet company was IN one, executing a perfect Pas De Deux in front of the Okinawa Spy Battalion in a scintillating rendition of Swan Lake. Many in our battalion thought we were too big to play such delicate roles, but we said to them, "Size matters, but in the spy world, it's reversed." In conclusion, it's a great movie it still holds up. Jack Shepherd and friend. P.S. - We loved this one.

A classic