Thank God this was R-Rated.

Rating: 7/10 (25 July 2005)

Not a great film, it works because of the unusual situation(s) the leads find themselves in, and also the R-rated parts added back in, which are welcome. Hopefully this will remind Hollywood that there will always be an audience for R-rated material; naked women never go out of style.
The characterization is barely there-- Vince Vaughn steals the movie just by showing up, and Owen Wilson is fleshed out more by Vince's actions and lines than anything Wilson brings to the proceedings. Some other fun characters show up, but aren't fleshed out at all, even Vince's psycho-stalker gets one good character line at the end, when there was so much more to be said. The movie is paced and directed amateurishly, which is no huge surprise if you look at director David Dobkin's filmography.
If I wrote the movie, that would frustrate me to no end, but I only had to sit through it once, and it was adequate. Hopefully it's the re-emerging of its genre, but even if it's not, it was an okay time. Watch for an unbilled cameo, as well as Christopher Walken for no apparent reason. It's a movie-reviewer cliché to use the word "radiant," but Rachel McAdams was radiant. And Jane Seymour is still hot. Nice.