Funeral Crashers

Rating: 8/10 (1 July 2009)

At one point of this David Dobkin 2005 comedy hit (Budget: $40, 000, 000. Gross revenue: $285, 176, 741) Owen Wilson's character John, one of the wedding crashers certainly, asks to the woman he loves (beautiful Rachel McAdams plays Claire Cleary) this: "would be a total cliché if I kissed you now?" and she says "Yes" and he kisses her. The end of the movie is there, the end of the very typical movie is there, the good guy is finally with the woman he loves and that woman is finally with the guy she loves and did not make the mistake of getting married with the all good and rich boyfriend of hers that actually is a complete a*****. You know, sure Wedding Crashers is predictable, nothing we haven't seen before and stuff but still it delivers, if you ask me is quite a recommendation for comedy fans that haven't seen it yet.
Here we have the wedding crashers, John and Vince Vaughn's character Jeremy and we have first the sort of montage to see these wedding crashers in action, you know lying, enjoying the weddings, getting the girls, they're experts, they really know about weddings. Second stage is the reflection of one of them, John to be exact, the thoughts after the just finished "wedding season", "we are irresponsible, we are not that young" that sort of thoughts. Later there's a wedding out of the "season", certainly the big special one, certainly the one that will deliver the main story and is John in love and Jeremy pretty much suffering a bit with two nuts (Gloria Cleary and Todd Cleary, played by Isla Fisher and Keir O'Donnell). I repeat, this is typical so there will be the classic moment when the girl that John fell in love with and the rest of her family (Christopher Walken plays the dad, the US Secretary of the Treasury William Cleary. As some have pointed, with Walken's character we have the Jack Byrnes of this film, well actually not really but that's just something we think of the moment we meet Walken's character so with that character the movie is not predictable which means we have nothing memorable with this character, nothing as funny as the stuff with his mother!) find out the truth, find out that John and Jeremy are not brothers, are liars, are just wedding crashers (a moment courtesy of the "villain": Claire's boyfriend and future husband, played by Bradley Cooper) and of course the moment with John being like "Claire: sure it's true I'm a wedding crasher but the guy you met, the guy that made you laugh and stuff is really who I am" and the moment with John and Jeremy breaking their friendship and well, of course the just f****** hilarious moments! It's a darn funny movie (Vaughn being the one who is especially funny. For instance, I loved his "conversation" with Janice and with father O'Neil!).
Apart of Wedding Crashers I have seen exactly 6 movies that have Will Ferrell in them (and I'm not familiar at all with SNL), pretty much I always find him amusing but never really hilarious until this movie (which I just saw today for the very first time, by the way), here Ferrell is just f****** hilarious! He plays Chazz Beinghold, this guy is like the wedding crashing master, the pioneer and he appears in the movie at the time when John is into books like "Don' Jump! Life's really worth it". Chazz is totally in another level, he is now a damn funeral crasher! So f***** up, so f***** up, anyway Wedding Crashers is a worthy comedy choice.