You will see the nation's capital in a whole new light!!!!!

Rating: 9/10 (16 July 2005)

CAUTION: May contain spoilers; however, I will do my best NOT to give away key points in the storyline.
I laughed so much on this one until it hurt!! By far the best comedy/'buddy' movie of the summer, WEDDING CRASHERS lives up to its pre-release hype. It stars Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn as two long-time buddies who make it their hobby and mission in life  or rather, lifestyle  to crash weddings as a means of hitting on and 'bagging' beautiful single women; all this when they aren't at their day job mediating divorces.
This formula has worked for them for a number of years by following a number of rules they have committed to memory and which they have flawlessly executed to perfection. Whether the wedding is Catholic, open-air, Jewish, Hindu or even the coup-de-grace, the wedding of one of the daughters of the Secretary of the Treasury (brilliantly played by Christopher Walken), these two buddies have the art of crashing weddings down to a science; only thing is, it is this last wedding where they get jammed up, or rather, hoisted up by their own petard.
Both Wilson and Vaughn's characters endear themselves to the Treasury Secretary's family, and as a result of the friendliness that runs both ways, get themselves invited out to the family's island home on Maryland's Eastern Shore for a few days.
(An example of the 'friendliness': Jane Seymour  who is playing in wicked and wanton form in this film as Walken's wife in a scene with Wilson where she is clearly coming on to him says: "The Secretary and I have been married 30 years". Wilson makes a complimentary remark. She continues, "We've been faithful for two.")
With the (psychotic) youngest daughter Gloria (played by Isla Fisher, who stole just about every scene she was in) and the deranged, sicko homosexual son 'Todd', who were BOTH white hot on the trail of Vaughn's character, and Wilson doing what he can to get past the mean-spirited control-freak 'boyfriend' of the other drop-dead gorgeous daughter (Rachel McAdams), the sparks fly all-around in one non-stop laugh after another, all coming down to a showdown in a wedding at the end involving one of the players that will leave your jaw hanging wide open.
The only real complaints of note I had with this movie was way too much dropping of the 'f-bombs' when there was simply no need. This movie was genuinely funny without the need to drop them, and it would have still earned its R-rating. The gratuitous showing of quick flashes of female flesh had no artistic merit to it; the simple innuendo or suggestion of taking these girls to bed would have gone much further with moviegoers, as our imaginations are far more lurid than anything they could have come with. We could also have done without the one cameo towards the end of the film, as it added nothing noteworthy towards the movie.
WEDDING CRASHERS is a definite MUST-SEE for serious movie-goers and the DVD will be well worth the purchase at Thanksgiving or Christmas time; HOWEVER, it is for GROWN-UPS only, and the R rating was given for good reason. DO NOT bring children to this movie under any circumstances as most of the jokes would fly over their heads. Let them wait until they are old enough to experience juvenile adulthood for themselves  that is, if they want to.
On a scale of 1 to 10, I give this film an 'easy' 9! ***