Good Movie

Rating: 10/10 (2 October 2005)

A good movie. Some people say that it promotes the idea that behind every party animal is a responsible man who just needs the right woman. This is true for the two main characters, but there is another character who is still pursing girls, finding funerals are a better bet.
The two start out with a cynical attitude towards marriage, saying it's just to legitimize the sex drive, which our two heroes see no need to do. They later find out about love. To affirm a positive value, you must show a negative value.
Yes, there are homophobic comments, but again, you can only confront bad ideas when you show them. Todd no more represents all gay people then John and Jeremy represent all straights.
This movie shows the fine art of lying. It requires preparation. It realizes that most people will accept what you say. There is a great throw-away line, saying that they lost a lot of good men, and they don't want to talk about it. It changes the subject, and wins sympathy at the same time. However, a lie can be exposed if you dig enough, as happens here.
We all know about how it's the quiet ones you have to watch out for. Gloria is shown to be a bigger sex fiend than either of the men. In fact, when John talks about changing their relationship, she thinks about more kinky sex. He is talking about marriage.
Gloria is disturbed, but she doesn't like being used. "Another notch in your belt". Eventually, Jeremy realizes she's not perfect, but neither is he. He finds someone he's willing to sacrifice for. As John said "We're shades of Gray". Isn't that for most, if not all of us?
There have been movies about Joan of Arc. Gloria is a saint compared to that woman. Murder is not in her mind. Compared to Joan, Gloria is sane.
One positive note. In a lot of movies, fathers are shown as fools (Shakespeare did this too). In this movie, the father puts the happiness of his daughters first.
Some say that the idea of two guys crashing the Secretary of the Treasurys' daughters' wedding is unreal. So is Shakespeares' "Twelfth Night". Realism is what movies are to escape from.
One thing. This movie represents Americas' multicultural reality. They crash Irish, Jewish, Chinese, etc. weddings. Any wedding with food, booze, and horny girls.