
The Good: Love the actor’s chemistry and everyone brings something hilarious to the table
The Bad: It’s your typical outrageous Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson inappropriate humor
The Bottom Line: Great comedy with an interesting plot that might have guys wanting to copy the scam!
I like a little political incorrectness. If you weren’t aware, I love great chemistry between actors. I think it’s especially important in comedies. This plus a good blend of sarcasm and inappropriateness makes an excellent recipe for a great comedy. “Wedding Crashers” is one of my personal favorites. I watched this movie almost every night this summer before I went to bed. I love the actors chemistry. The Wilson-Vaughn duo play off of each other’s energy and I found myself forgetting it was a movie and feeling more like I was watching strange scenarios play out between long-time best friends. However, sometimes wish the movie wasn’t so predictable. Many of the Wilson-Vaughn-Will Ferrell movies begin with the self-centered guy who has to go through uncommon awkward scenes, fall for a girl, get caught in his lies, lose girl, come to a miraculous epiphany about life, get girl back. “Wedding Crashers” is no exception.
So here’s what’s going on: John (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy (Vince Vaughn) are divorce mediators who crash weddings and take on a variety of aliases to pick up girls and bridesmaids. These dudes have a rule: They don't crash weddings like mingy cowards. They barge in, sit at the bridal table (as Uncle Ned or Aunt Liz's kids), secure that no one will call their bluff. They're a comedy dream team.
“Wedding Crashers” is definitely deserving of its R-rating. During one sped up montage, John and Jeremy fall into bed one by one with their smorgasbord of half naked women--the movie has no shortage of nudity! This caught me a little off guard, but the directors do a nice job of making it more humorous than anything-- you’ll have to watch to know EXACTLY what I’m talking about!
And like most movies, there is a love story. At a wedding, John is taken by bridesmaid named Claire (Rachel McAdams)-- it’s love at first sight. Although, Claire’s engagement puts a damper on his plans. Claire’s the daughter of treasury secretary William Cleary (Christopher Walken), so when he invites the guys for a weekend at his beach house, John is ecstatic, seeing it as a prime opportunity to get closer to Claire. Unfortunately, Jeremy’s not nearly as keen on the mini-vacation. He just had a quickie on the beach at the wedding with Gloria (Isla Fisher), the secretary's other daughter, and is looking to get away from her as fast as possible. Jeremy’s in panic mode, telling John: "I got a stage-five clinger.” Fisher does an excellent job portraying a erotic and psychotic pain in the @$$. Your focus on her beauty will be distracted beautiful girl when she tells Jeremy that their sexual encounter was her first time and that they should declare their love. "Don't ever leave me," she warns. "I'd find you." No wonder they guy’s desperate to get as far away from her as possible. Who wouldn’t be?!
The guys argue humorously back and forth about whether to accept the Secretary’s invite, showing off how easily the two actors mesh-- sounding like bickering schoolboys with the vocabulary and sarcasm of grown men! Eventually, John and Jeremy have several hilarious encounters while at the beach house including a bone-crushing game of touch football, the secretary's nympho wife who develops a strange sexual attraction to John, and the anti-social, gothic, artistic gay son who becomes obsessive over Jeremy. Awkward moments like these make over the top comedies my favorite!
Of course, John and Jeremy blow their covers. As if Wilson and Vaughn’s chemistry isn’t enough, Will Ferrell shows up as the innovator of wedding crashing, still living with his mother he now finds weddings out of style -- he crashes funerals. John realizes this lifestyle isn’t going anywhere and John creates a plan to win back Claire.
This movie is full of tons of inappropriate and politically incorrect laughs and will leave viewers adoring the Wilson-Vaughn-Ferrell trio. Unfortunately, the trio has a tendency to make the same kind of movies over and over again... always hilarious... but I’d like something with some slight change.
1 comments:
I really enjoyed your review of Wedding Crashers. I thought you touched on interesting parts of the film. I like how you talked about the actors chemistry, gave a summary of the plot and described the feel of the movie overall. Also, I like how your summary included funny quotes from the movie because that spiked my interest and made me want to hear other funny things the characters have said. Also, I liked how you gave an in depth look at the characters personalities. Many reviews just talk about their role in the movie but you included a deeper analysis of them. I thought it was helpful that you included the things you liked about the movie and the things you did not like. This was an overal execellently organized and well written review!
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