The Hype Failed Us

Rating: 2/10 (7 January 2006)

Two businessmen, partners and friends, Beckwith (Wilson), Grey (Vaughn) have a unique hobby: crashing weddings to meet girls. Seems to work for them.
Here's the deal: if you are young and have a group of friends watching this movie with beer, you will probably like this movie. If you eliminate the friends and the beer you must see this is a tedious movie that tries to be funny and fails. Oh, there are some funny moments to be sure, but they are few and instantly forgettable or I would relate one or two here. Just can't recall any. There are other "funny moments" that rely heavily on sexual circumstances. And, in some cases one or two of these circumstances are actually so crude to the point I couldn't believe the scene was happening at all. In one instance, imagine some goings on under the table at a family dinner, and as you watch there is almost nothing left to the imagination. Not for kids.
The only good performances were from Henry Gibson and Christopher Walken. Walken sleep-walked thru this as if to say to himself, "Hang in there. It will be over soon." Gibson plays the unsuspecting, but somewhat suspecting character we all love to watch. He has the old time comedians' sense or timing within him. He does a good job always. Jane Seymour was wasted in this. I don't know why she agreed to have her character with a new breast job tell Beckwith (Wilson) to feel them and once he does, she calls him a pervert. Oh, you don't see anything of hers except from a side view and a body double was probably used anyway. Nothing erotic here. Just a clumsy scene. Will Ferrell probably paid his way into this and once again showed us why he should be selling cars.
Owen Wilson is good at explanations and you believe everything he says, and that will get him into heaven. He is not a bad actor, but he needed someone else to play off of than Vince Vaughn. There was no chemistry between them. Vaughn is not funny, better than Ferrell, but still not funny. He delights in talking at light-speed and after the first 10-words are out you have lost any interest or meaning in what he was trying to say. You just don't care because he goes on for too long. The Director probably grooved on this. He was the only one.
Yes, the hype fooled me again. Going to have to do something about that, but I don't know what because I keep giving things another chance. Maybe I should get some friends and some beer and watch this again. No, once was enough, but I could use a drink about now.