Review: Wedding Crashers
Two guys, two girls, a wedding, and a funeral..
Starring Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Christopher Walken, Rachel McAdams, Isla Fisher.
Rating: 6 / 10
This is one of those movies that you pretty much know how it's going to end - everyone lives happily ever after. It would be a "surprise ending" if everyone didn't end up with who they were supposed to end up with.
The two main charactrers are John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn), a team of Divorce Mediators by day who crash weddings to pick up girls by "night".
Rachel McAdams
The movie is quite funny, however a bit of the humour is your typical American in your face physical comedy. It doesn't detract too much from it, some of it is entertaining, but some goes on for a bit too long. A lot of the good funny is in the conversations between John and Jeremy. Vaughn is particular is good in these sorts of movies, where he's talking fast and being amusing. I'm sure a few of the scenes involved a bit of adlib. There aren't too many mushy or slow bits either, the funny does taper off a bit to the end when the boys are trying to sort out their friendship and then their relationships.
The idea is that John and Jeremy show up at a wedding, with a cover story, and find two targets (girls) that they want to pick up. They then go about being the life of the party, and despite never having been invited everyone knows they're there and who they (supposedly) are. They get the girl, seal the deal, and it's off to another wedding.
Isla Fisher
John starts to think there might be more to life than just one night stands with hot chicks, however he reluctantly agrees to crashing one more wedding with Jeremy. A high profile wedding no less, that of the daughter of Secretary of Treasury Cleary (Christopher Walken).
Now I didn't click when I read that Walken 2008 thing that he plays a high-ranking politician in this movie - he's even on a magazine cover the guys have as "Our next President?" - so either he got the idea when playing the character or the whole Walken 2008 thing is just someone getting overzealous after seeing the movie.
It's a shame that Christopher Walken didn't play a particularly funny character in this movie, since he does the kind of deadpan funny like the stuff in Pulp Fiction very well in my opinion. He was deadpan, but unfortunately serious.
Anyway, at the wedding John has his eye on one daughter, Claire (Rachel McAdams), and Jeremy another, Gloria (Isla Fisher). Nothing goes as smoothly as it seems, Claire it turns out has an arsehole boyfriend, Sack, and Gloria is a crazy nympho. From there it's all about John trying to gain the affection of Claire, while Jeremy tries to get away from Gloria, mainly at the Cleary weekend retreat where they go after the wedding. The whole Cleary family is insane - there's a crazy old grandmother, the alcoholic wife, the gay weirdo son, and a bunch of other miscellaneous family members we don't really meet.
After a few twists and turns we arrive at the predictable end, everyone lives happily ever after. Even Will Ferrel makes a "guest" appearance.
Worth seeing, but you probably wouldn't get much out of it a second time.
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