Worth seeing just for the lovely Rachel McAdams.

Rating: 8/10 (26 July 2005)

Cahadian actress Rachel McAdams ("Mean Girls") is both beautiful and talented, and her star appears to be in ascendancy. That's a good thing for everyone. She is a wonderful screen presence, and "Wedding Crashers" is worth seeing solely because of her.
This is clearly a "Frat Pack" movie, with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn in the lead roles, and Will Ferrell making a cameo appearance. I kind of wish that Owen's brother Luke had shown up, but that's neither here nor there. Owen and Vince are thirtysomethings who crash weddings in order to seduce bridesmaids. They decide to crash the wedding of the eldest daughter of William Cleary (Christopher Walken), a powerful politician. In doing so, Owen falls for Claire (McAdams) and Vince is snared by Gloria (Isla Fisher), a borderline-psychotic nymphomaniac. Vince wants to run, but Owen is now in love with Claire, and wants to convince her to leave her lout of a boyfriend, Sack (Bradley Cooper, intense and losable). Various hilarious and embarrassing antics ensue.
Unusually for movies of this genre, both Claire and Gloria feel like real characters. Owen is sometimes a bit boring, while Vince is playing his standard character, and doing it well. Will Ferrell's cameo is as the original Wedding Crasher, who has now gone on to crashing funerals. It's all good.
I give "Wedding Crashers" an 8/10.