Wedding Crashers

Rating: 3/10 (30 January 2008)

Even before it started, I was dubious of this film, and to be honest, I was right, I should have watched a better film. Basically John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) are business partners and lifelong friends who share a truly unique springtime hobby - crashing weddings. They basically pretend to know the bride or groom, or whatever ethnicity, watch the proceedings as if they were real guests, then at the reception manage to chat up some beautiful female guests with their clever back stories, and have their ways with them. Then the mother of all weddings comes along, the marriage of the daughter of Treasury Secretary William Cleary (Christopher Walken) and wife Kathleen Cleary (Live and Let Die's Jane Seymour) is getting hitched. When they get into the wedding, they set their eyes on bridesmaids Claire (Mean Girls' Rachel McAdams) and Gloria Cleary (Isla Fisher). Both have problems with their choices, John sees that she already has a boyfriend and fiancée-to-be, and Jeremy is with a virgin, but sex obsessed virgin! Jeremy is desperate to get out of the scheme, but John is obviously in love with his choice, so they have to stick around with the family so John can get her to fall for him, and Jeremy meanwhile has to suffer all the embarrassments of the family. They are eventually found out by the bastard boyfriend Zachary 'Sack' Lodge (Bradley Cooper) to be wedding crashers, but at the real wedding of Jeremy and Gloria (yes, he really did fall for her eventually), John expresses his feelings for Claire in front of the congregation, and gets William's blessing. Also starring Patch Adams and Road Trip's Ellen Albertini Dow as Grandma Mary Cleary, Henry Gibson as Father O'Neil, Ron Canada as Randolph, Keir O'Donnell as Todd Cleary and Will Ferrell as Chazz Reinhold. It had its very, very small interesting and giggly moments, such as Gloria masturbating Jeremy under the table while they have dinner, but's it's not a film I'd see more than once, i.e. never again. Adequate!