Surprisingly Not Bad

Rating: 7/10 (7 October 2006)

Every critic I have read and person I have spoken to disliked this movie. After seeing it recently, I disagree. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are brilliant as con artists who go to weddings to pick up women. Yes, you can't pick up women that easily in real life, but it is a comedy. Wilson and Vaughn are hilarious in showing how a big male ego can get you by in the World. They are both highly immature, but you can't help admiring the verve of the two. If you are thinking that this is the entire point of the movie, no, it isn't. Wilson meets the daughter (Rachel McAdams)of the Secretary of State (Christopher Walken). The patrician family is on the surface chic, but in reality a collection of misfits. The rival in the movie is terrific as someone who thinks that the World owes him everything, simply because he is rich. There are many great moments in the movie. There is a walk on role by Will Farrell as a "funeral crasher". Farrell is very funny. I really felt that this movie showed that one has to have guts in life, but that you also can be changed and grow up due to the very things that appeared to just be leading you nowhere.