A fantastically funny tale

Rating: 10/10 (2 January 2006)

Wedding crashers has got to be one of the absolute best films I have seen this year, it was comical but not verging on the stupid funny, it was romantic but not too slushy and most of all it displayed that not mater what you might like to think, no one is immune to love. Another great thing about this movie is that in my opinion it is completely unique, as I cannot think of another film that covers a similarly worked plot. In the film you have two guys who have been taught by a "guru", the ways of womanising beautiful young ladies in a matter of minutes, the main theory behind this is that women feel emotionally charged at a wedding, so John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Klein (Vince Vaughn) spend most of their time at weddings winning a wonderful array of women's hearts, as juvenile fun. All of this belief in fun changes when John meets Claire Cleary (Rachel McAdams), at the wedding of the season, and he is immediately smitten by her, so whilst he is trying to get to her, Jeremy is busy seducing Gloria Cleary, and succeeding. John tries a large number of different tricks to get Claire to notice him, and to come to him, he eventually succeeds when Claire comes out onto the boat where John is talking to her father, from there on the is a visible spark between the two of them, which really ignites the rest of the film, this is also added to by the nastiness of Claire's current boyfriend Sack. From here on it really becomes a Romantic Comedy where Jeremy starts to fall for Gloria, as John falls out of favour with Claire, after both admitting to having feelings for one another. Eventually we get the fairytale ending we have been expecting since the guys and girls met, where Gloria and Jeremy are married, Sack gets floored by Jeremy and John gets Claire, they drive off into the distance happily ever after. Overall I think the ending although expected, came with the twist of the timing that it occurred, but this I think made it all the better. So I give this film 9/10