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PLOT: Two guys who crash weddings to pick up women meet their matches at the posh wedding of a politician's daughter.
Looking for something stupid? Who isn't.
Wedding Crashers is admirably stupid and probably the most fun you can have with your clothes on, as movies go. There isn't much of a story to it, but the comic combo of Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn is outrageous.
The lads play divorce mediators with an interesting hobby -- they crash weddings. Properly dressed, hugely entertaining and in every way the perfect guests, these two score plenty of free food, drink and women, and it's all fun and games.
As a special challenge, they decide to boldly crash a security-heavy wedding where the father of the bride is the U.S. Treasury Secretary (Christopher Walken, always a good sign).
The guys quickly find the two young women they fancy most: Gloria (Isla Fisher) and Claire (Rachel McAdams). Both are Chris Walken's daughters.
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Gloria turns out to be a nutcase. Worse yet, Claire turns out to be the girl of Owen Wilson's dreams.
Our two wedding crashers are in much deeper than they had imagined possible.
Wedding Crashers involves the worst sort of politically incorrect humour, atrocious language and buddy nonsense. We haven't laughed this much since There's Something About Mary.
Vince Vaughn does that boy-o/swinger thing he does and he does it to perfection, the humour always tilting slightly toward the completely absurd in a most delicious fashion. This is a buddy comedy that wants you to love two total cads, and you will. It gets easier when the louche-but-lovable heroes come up against successful, socially prominent, sports-minded rich guys -- who are pigs. That's Bradley Cooper in the thankless role as Claire's obnoxious, blue-blood boyfriend. And on the cast front, it should be mentioned that as Claire, Toronto's Rachel McAdams holds her own beautifully and will make you proud to be Canadian. Something like that, anyway. She's very, very good.
Over and above the wit and riposte and really puerile sexual jokes, Wedding Crashers has several other strong selling points: Vince Vaughn dancing, Jane Seymour in a hilarious bit as a randy wife, a cameo from Will Ferrell. It's all good.
Further to Vince Vaughn's impressive dancing, the only mystery to Wedding Crashers is how the filmmakers failed to include a dance scene with famed hoofer Walken while they were at it.
Oh, well. Nobody's perfect.
(This film is rated 14-A)