Above average silliness

Rating: Null/10 (19 February 2008)

WEDDING CRASHERS, like American PIE, is a movie with sufficient charm to undermine the clearly juvenile activities of the lead characters, whose sole purpose at the outset is to bed as many women as possible from the wedding receptions that they gatecrash. A previous generation might have flocked to see similar proceedings in PORKY'S, although there isn't nearly as much nudity in this film, save for the occasional visual near the beginning.
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson excel as divorce lawyers who welcome Wedding Season with gusto and come up with all manner of ploys and plays in their own 'Wedding Crasher' play-book. Complications start to set in when familiar faces from previous weddings turn up and they have to defer them from going any further.
Even greater problems begin when they crash the Superbowl of weddings, a society function involving the daughter of a top Senator (Christopher Walken, in excellent form) and Wilson finds himself falling for one of the two, Claire (the delectably gorgeous Rachel McAdams), whilst Vaughn has to contend with her 'STAGE 5 CLINGER' sister, Gloria (Isla Fisher, in a brilliant standout performance) and a rather morose brother with an eye for painting with blood. Claire is already engaged to somebody, but Wilson and Vaughn, at the cajoling and convincing of Gloria, head off for a weekend to get to know their respective suitors better.
WEDDING CRASHERS works at it's best when it is screwball and despite the simplistic plot, has sufficient charm and humour to offset the sentiment that creeps in from time to time. McAdams and Fisher offset the performances of Vaughn and Wilson, who bounce off each other with skill and energy. The best alternative during the 2005 release schedule to Anakin and co.