Crashing In All The Way To The Bank!

Rating: 10/10 (2 December 2006)

This is the film that truly made Vince Vaughn a star. I had always been a fan of Owen Wilson (and was always slightly delighted that whatever film he turned up in - no matter how weak its material - he was always able to JUST pull it off in a really likable way); But with Vaughn, it always felt that he was a huge star in the making - and you really wanted him to do it - but it just never seemed to happen. Until Now.
The Wedding Crashers is that perfect mix of adult humour, classy settings and outright, laugh-out-loud, slightly pee-your-pants slapstick. I haven't laughed this hard since my girlfriend's battle-axe Mother decided to emigrate! The all-star line-up are perfectly cast - with a downright brilliantly ridiculous cameo from Will (how DOES he get away with it?) Ferrell. Everyone is fantastic in their own right - from the brilliantly realistic animosity between Rebecca De Morny and Dwight Yoakam (with some GREAT lines) before the opening credits even roll - to the closing scenes which - although appearing to contain enough cheese to satisfy even the biggest deep-pan aficionado - really, simply, works.
A platinum cast including the awesome Chritopher Walken, Keir o' Donnell, the always beautiful Jane Seymour (nicely bitter) and a host of others - but a special mention however MUST go to Isla Fisher. Apart from Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction - there has never been a more sexy, but impossibly scary Bunny Boiler as that portrayed by Ms Fisher (or is it Mrs Baron Cohen?) in this film. The irony here is that opposites really can attract - and sometimes you find exactly what you were looking for in a person - without realising it's precisely what you wanted. All in all - a really sweet film - without the sugar. Absolutely priceless!