Take it or leave it

Rating: Null/10 (5 January 2006)

Those looking for a few no-brainer laughs may take it; those easily offended by sexual vulgarity (don't have a definition but the "under the table scene", if you've seen the movie, could be a candidate) may want to leave it.
Structurally speaking, look at it as a three-act, multi-scene play with a prologue.
The prologue is a fast moving sequence of all the weddings John (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy (Vince Vaughn) are crashing, meaning pretending to be relatives, eat and drink until they throw up and pickup and bed someone in the process. A bit too long for a prologue but maybe to drive home the point that this pair does have A LOT OF weddings to crash.
Act 1, THE wedding of the year they don't want to miss despite the fact that they are totally exhausted. This act is actually quite well done, providing a few laughs and introducing the somewhat strange family: typical all-American senator (or some such people)(Christopher Walken), his seemingly sex-starved wife (Jane Seymore), lovely daughter Claire (Rachel McAdams), crazy sex-maniac daughter (Isla Fisher), weirdo son, wacky grandmother and psychotic future son-in-law. You get the picture.
Act 2, the main body of the story, takes place in the senator's (or some such people) residence in crab-cake country where the party is spending a supposedly idyllic weekend. Needless to say, all sorts of things happen, and more laughs. Coming out of it though is also the familiar tale of bad-guy-turn-good-at-first-true-love. If you belong to the population that detest "vulgar" sex jokes, you may find that this sequence at least, between John and Claire, is tastefully done.
Act 3 is the usually finale that gets the protagonists out of trouble, with everybody living happily ever after.
The acting job is quite well done. McAdams and Wilson make a lovely and lovable pair, while Vaughn and Fisher provide the necessary comedy. Walken is perfect for his role. A word of warning: if you had been secretly in love with elegant, charming Jane Seymore (particularly in "Somewhere in time") you could be heart-broken.