Too long, but an enjoyable Wedding

Rating: 7/10 (5 January 2006)

A very funny and entertaining R rated comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as divorce mediators who in their spare time like to crash weddings and meet chicks. They do it as a way to scam food, get laid, and basically to have loads of fun. This aspect is fun for the audience too, as we get an extended montage of our two friends crashing about 17 weddings and getting in all kinds of conquests, eating loads of food, and getting jiggy with it with many different cultures. But when the mother of all weddings comes around, they just have to go and try and do the ultimate con. Needless to say our two heroes get way more than they bargain for.
The wedding is being thrown by a Washington senator (Christopher Walken) and when Wilson first lays eyes on one of his daughters played by the pretty Rachel McAdams, it's love at first sight. When he learns that she is unavailable, he convinces Vaughn to stick around for some overtime so he can win her from her beau and soon both of them are in over their head. Vaugn's troubles only just begin when the other daughter can't keep her hands off him as well as the Senator's gay outcast son. Throw in a horny wife played by Jane Seymour and a psycho 90 year old toilet mouthed grandma.
There are some big laughs and most of the film works. My complaint is that this film is about 20 minutes too long and there is a big chunk towards the end that could have been taken out because the film seems to drone on for awhile at that point. This is still a very enjoyable film that will make you laugh a lot. (***)