Wedding Crashers (2005)

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Short and Simple Review by WubsTheFadgerFirst off, the story starts off with a bang. It is funny clever and most importantly original. The characters are easy to connect with and the dialogue is great. The jokes are solid and the romantic plot line is well thought out.The acting is great. Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken, Rachel McAdams, Isla Fisher, Jane Seymor, Bradley Cooper, and Will Ferrel all perform great.The pacing starts off very fast but slows down towards the middle and the end. The runtime is a little overlong as well.This film is one of the best comedies of the 21st century. It belong in the ranks of The 40 Year Old Virgin, 21 Jump Street, and Superbad.Pros: Funny jokes, great characters, original story, good romantic plot line, and great actingCons: Slow pacing in the middle and the end and an overlong runtimeOverall Rating: 8.0

Carried by the supporting cast.Two friends, John (played by Owen Wilson) and Jeremy (Vince Vaughn), crash weddings to pick up women. One day they crash the wedding of the daughter of the Treasury Secretary, Secretary Cleary (Christopher Walken). Instead of short-term flings they end up being invited to the Clearys' island estate, and potentially meet the loves of their lives...Has its moments but mostly quite silly and predictable. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are quite irritating and unfunny (not really a surprise)However, the supporting cast is great and almost makes up for Wilson and Vaughn's ineptness and dullness. Isla Fisher is fantastically over-the-top and scary as the clingy Gloria. Rachel McAdams is wonderful as Claire. Bradley Cooper plays the bad guy for once, and does it extremely well - swarmy, in-your-face and very over-the-top. Christopher Walken is...Christopher Walken. And then there's Jane Seymour as a Mrs Robinson-like Mrs Cleary...Overall - mediocre, but could have been a whole lot worse.

The story is one of those clichés of comedies; starts a movie with a premise based on a lie, let it develop and peaks and see how the dust settles after the moment of truth, which because it's a comedy, is sure to be a happy ending. The story gets to be more romantic than comedic in a very sort while, particularly because the movie only uses a lengthy montage of scenes to depict the mischief of the wedding crashing. Then the movie gets slower as the romance takes over, and to be frank it gets to be boring. The comedic inserts after the romance part kick in makes the movie instead a confusing one since those inserts are horribly weird. The moments with Todd are well freaky and even the character Sack fits in just to complete the movie's turning point. The acting overall is also quite lame. Owen Wilson didn't really progress and depicts his character here almost the same as any other of his characters. Vince Vaughn's craziness completes the comedic angle perfectly. It's too bad that they whole comedic set only lasted well for a while. Rachel McAdams also didn't really gave any difference to her role. Bradley Cooper's surely a waste in this movie

The purpose of all comedy movies is to make you laugh your head off so much that you are actually laughing with what the characters are doing, but that is not the case with David Dobkin's Wedding Crashers. The movie stars Owen Wilson as John Beckwith and Vince Vaughn as Jeremy Grey who are two men who belong in the wedding crashing business, but I have to give them credit for knowing how to get in and how to crash one. Before I watched this film I thought it was actually going to be funny throughout, but turns out I was mostly wrong because most of it was just humor with no humorous replies with laughs as this movie was expecting, I also thought that this movie in every scene was just going to be how they plan and crash weddings but in the scenes where John and Jeremy do so you just can't tell how they are doing because in advance all Jeremy says to John before they crash into a Jewish style wedding was"We have a bunch of weddings to crash". Then a few weeks after that wedding they find out that that Treasury Secretary William Cleary's (played by Christopher Walken) daughter Christina (played by Jenny Alden) is about to get married to a guy named Trap (played by David Conrad). The only things that I noticed during the Secretary's daughter's wedding was the facial expressions (especially those by Walken). i really do think that the director to this movie David Dobkin could have done a much better job than what he did without thinking of revisions for his direction before the film was released. Then John ends up falling in love with one of the Secretary's daughter Claire (played by Rachel McAdams) when she already has a boyfriend with a sort of native American name Sack Lodge (played by Bradley Cooper) (What a huge coincidence that is, also when Sack doesn't even know about it). there was a lot of other things I hated about this movie besides the directing, I didn't like the story especially because it made fun of a time where we are supposed to feel good about ourselves and that is when someone gets married to the person who we think is the correct person to marry, the acting i would have to give half credit because in some scenes the acting was good as well as totally stupid/insane at the same time, the person who really does give the creepiest performance in this film as Isla Fisher (who also plays as one of Secretary Cleary's daughters) who plays a woman who is thought to be a virgin to some men when she is really a sex offender, and not only that there is also other people who gave horrible performances such as Will Ferrell as John's friend Chazz who end up crashing a funeral and Ferrell acts like a spoiled brat, Ellen Albetini Dow as the crazed grandmother who does act like the pessimistic octopus from the animated nickelodeon TV show Spongebob Squarepants, and by the way during the scene when John and Chazz were crashing the funeral I thought to myself "What did this movie turn into? funeral crashers", I also hated the script to the movie because of the fact that most of it was sexual garbage,and i especially hated Keir O' Donnell's performance as the only son in the Cleary family Todd who is a freakishly homosexual artist who tries to creep the heck out of Jeremy. What a dumb movie.