Barely worth buying a matinée ticket

Rating: 5/10 (31 July 2005)

I paid $6.50 too much to see Wedding Crashers today, and all I got out of it was seeing a few haphazardly strewn funny moments thrown into 2 hours of screen time erroneously labeled as a "movie". The movie was long.... too long. There were only enough jokes to moderately cover the first 30 minutes, and that's being generous.
I typically like Owen Wilson, but I found him playing the straight man to be a huge disappointment as his character evolved into someone insipid, uninteresting and pathetic to watch. Vince Vaughn had a few memorable lines, again at the beginning, but nothing noteworthy or overly original. I found the supporting cast to be far more memorable than either of the leads, whose character names I honestly cannot remember because they were only mentioned a couple times. Aside from the character problems, the script is very disjointed and never really seems to come together.
It seems as though the "boobfest" was thrown in after the fact for the sole purpose of getting a male audience into a film that is better categorized as a quasi chick flick than a raunchy comedy. Or maybe just for increased publicity. It didn't seem to fit into the overall film, but then again nothing really seemed to fit. Disappointing doesn't begin to describe how I felt after all the hype. Better off as a rental.