Funniest film for years! MOTOR-BOAT!

Rating: 9/10 (21 July 2005)

So far it has been a very productive and enjoyable year in the movie world and with the big comedy movie of the summer having arrived, yet again audiences won't be disappointed. This is a comedy dream team-up here with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson. The two have been regulars in the Ben Stiller posse and this time these two titans share the screen. Of all the team-ups you could imagine from the Wilson's, Vaughn. Stiller, Ferrell and Black, the Wedding Crashers has perhaps the most interesting and indeed the two spark off each other superbly.
Crashers is a very funny movie. In fact it is riotous at times. I have not laughed as hard as I did watching this at the cinema before. I was crying I tell you, crying in a theatre full of witnesses, and everyone else was crying with me, crying with uncontrollable laughter. This is a good solid R-rated movie and in good old England my home a very adult 15 certificate and it really pushes that rating very close to a full 18 certificate, and in fact I am shocked this film wasn't rated 18. This film really pushes the limits of taste, but does so superbly. This features perhaps the best dining room scene ever, the funniest rape scene ever, and the funniest motor-boat impression ever. Why is the film funny? It just is. It's down to great comical performances and outrageous situations.
The story revolves around two wedding crashers who crash weddings in order to get laid. They have been doing so for years, however John (Wilson) is getting tired and questioning whether or not they should be doing it at their age. Vaughn insists they should live a little while they are still young however Wilson points out that they are not that young anymore. Of course the two still crash weddings and set about hitting the mother-load at the wedding of the year. At the wedding Wilson meets and becomes infatuated with Claire (Rachel MacAdems) while Vaughn sees her younger sister, Gloria (Isla Fisher) but merely as a notch on his belt. Of course the Wilson plot-line is your typical rom-com plot-line where two people meet, begin to fall for each other, but on the pretence of a lie, which later comes out and threatens to wreck any hope of the inevitable happy ending. This is your atypical rom-com stuff but thankfully doesn't become too perfunctory, keeping the laughs on a high, even at the climax of the film, when a lot of staple rom-com scenes play out. However most of the films big laughs involve Vaughn's plot line where he gets more than he bargained for with Fisher who turns out to be a psychotic and clingy nymphomaniac.
The cast are great. Wilson is as laid back and easy going as ever, while MacAdems is just adorable. However Vince Vaughn is a one man show. Vaughn is absolutely top class here, on fire. Isla Fisher is just superb as the deranged sister and she and Vaughn have some of the funniest scenes I have seen in ages. There is also good support from Christopher Walken and a rather hot Jane Seymour (Milf!) as his wife, who keeps trying to seduce Wilson to hilarious effect. Elsewhere Will Ferrell turns up for a funny cameo as a guy who crashes funerals.
Overall this film is pure hilarity. A great comedy with great scenes. ****