Wedding Crashers (2005) BOMB

Rating: 1/10 (12 February 2006)

Oh My God. I love crazy and untamed comedies when I'm in the mood for them, and last night I was in the mood for one. Everybody I know had told me how hilarious and wild this film was supposed to be, including my own wife, who had already seen it in the theatre with a bunch of her girlfriends one day. So she was willing to watch it again and we rented it. Well, it just so happened that my sister and her husband were getting ready to rent the very same title, so we decided to go to their place and watch it together, along with my 16-year-old nephew.
Well, we all hated this movie - including my wife this time, and she couldn't understand how she'd previously found it so amusing. There are practically no laughs here, and it's a one-joke film that shoots its load early on. Yes, we get that Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn find their kicks by crashing people's weddings and it's a chuckle for the first couple of minutes of montages... so now what? Well, we then introduce more unlikable people (another insufferable appearance from Christopher Walken, blah) and toss in an excruciating love story to involve the one Wedding Crasher with the busted nose falling for one of the pretty young females at one reception. I hate to sound so juvenile, but only getting to gawk at the still-lovely 50-something Jane Seymour strutting about in the nude like a slut managed to arouse my interest for a minute. The idea that she would even lower herself in such a manner is besides the point, but at least I kept my eyes open for her contribution. (I later learned she used a body double). It's a shame that the DVD became defective at this moment, the picture kept breaking up, and jumped ahead during her seductive sequence; evidently I wasn't the only renter who at least found this scene interesting. 0 out of ****