Intriguing premise but crashes and burns badly after 5 minutes

Rating: 2/10 (28 July 2005)

Owen Wilson, the man who has a nose resembling an intimate part of the male body, finally rids himself of a co-star that outshines him like Jackie Chan or his best buddy, Ben Stiller. It's rather unfortunate that the vehicle he's chosen is such a waste of a life.
The overall idea of having two guys, the other being the rather intimidating Vince Vaughn, lie through their teeth to get laid and doing it at weddings, to which they are not invited smell great at the beginning but soon turn into a fume-infested stink fest and that's just at the start of the movie.
The turning point is when we first meet Wilson's lady love. She is presented as such a cuddly, too good to be true, stand up babe, that when Wilson engages in a rather sappy first encounter talk with her, you know virtually everything that is going to happen next, including Wilson falling head over heels in love and that the two guys get to grow up mentally. One of the rather simple lessons in this movie is that Wilson and Vaughn are too old to crash weddings: (Quote (Wilson)): I'm still young." (Some lady): "You're not that young."
The supporting cast is what saves the movie from being a total bomb but is Christopher Walken really that hung up for work that he wants to play a role mimicking Robert De Niro's in Meet the Parents. His Father of the Bride (another movie rip-off) is so hard-nosed at the beginning but soon falls into the same "go with what makes daughter happy at the end."
The obstacle, of course is a psycho boyfriend who we know will get shafted by Wilson and Vaughn right when we first meet him. The sister, who Vaughn is forced to couple up with was the one decent surprise. The actress who plays her seems like ten fingernails scratching a blackboard but she wins you over like something that is very nice to have around. The less said about Jane Seymour's rather embarrassing bedroom scene the better and that goes for the brother's as well.
So to sum up Wedding Crashers is a glass of fresh milk that gets tepid the more you leave it out of the fridge and leaves you with a sour smell and bitter taste, but nice try Wilson. Hope in the future you will return to supporting parts where you are best suited.