Charming, yeah... but kind of bland

Rating: 6/10 (21 October 2005)

WEDDING CRASHERS (3 outta 5 stars) Not nearly as hilarious a movie as I was expecting... not particularly well-written but it's not the first movie for Vince Vaughn OR Owen Wilson where they had to breeze through on charm alone for two hours. Being as how the entire PLOT of this movie concerns two guys who breeze through life on charm alone, attending weddings to which they are not invited, it's not hard to see why they got they got the leads. The movie is not hard to sit through but neither is it particularly memorable once it's all over. Personally, I would have liked to get a little more information on HOW these two con artists always manage to get a seat at the dinner tables? Do they forge place cards or what? It can't just be as simple as showing up in a suit and pretending to be related to someone who isn't there. Ah well, it's a comedy... we're not meant to be concerned about how realistic it all is. We're only meant to judge how *funny* it is. Unfortunately, one week later and I hard-pressed to come up with one memorably-funny line or gag from the flick. I'm sure I was smiling amiably throughout (did I mention how dang *charming* the two leads are?) but the hilarity I was expecting just did not occur. Christopher Walken plays a Kennedy-esquire politician but it's a nothing role and it doesn't have much of the old Walken zing to it. It's like he's playing a part in a Saturday Night Live sketch that sounded promising on paper but just didn't hit the mark.