Genre: Romance, Comedy, Gay/Lesbian, Infidelity
Tagline: On July 15th, they're coming to your wedding...with or without invitations.
Plot: In the outrageous comedy, Wedding Crashers, divorce mediators John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) are business partners and life-long friends who share one truly unique springtime hobby…crashing weddings! Whatever the ethnicity of the wedding party – Jewish, Italian, Irish, Chinese, Hindu – the charismatic and charming duo always have clever back stories for inquisitive guests and inevitably become the hit of every reception, where they strictly adhere to their proven “rules of wedding crashing” to meet and pick up women aroused by the very thought of marriage.At the tail end of another successful season of toasting brides and grooms, Jeremy learns that the daughter of Treasury Secretary William Cleary (Christopher Walken) and his wife Kathleen (Jane Seymour) is getting married in what is sure to be the Washington, D. C. social event of the year. After infiltrating the lavish affair, John and Jeremy quickly set their sights on bridesmaids Claire (Rachel McAdams) and Gloria (Isla Fisher) Cleary. With the lavish reception in full swing, Jeremy works his game plan to perfection in seducing Gloria, but John’s flirtatious banter with Claire is unexpectedly impeded by her pompous, Ivy League boyfriend Sack (Bradley Cooper). Having uncharacteristically fallen
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 It offers plenty of belly laughs early on, but the appeal is short-lived. It would be untrue for me to claim I didn't laugh during Wedding Crashers, but the longer the movie stayed on screen - outlasting its welcome by a considerable amount - the less amusing it was. After a promising beginning, this movie crashes and burns.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
"Wedding Crashers" is all runway and no takeoff. It assembles the elements for a laugh-out-loud comedy, but it can't make them fly. There are individual moments that are very funny. But it takes a merciless focus to make a good comedy, and the director, David Dobkin, has too much else on his mind. --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
Sometimes a movie comedy just clicks. Welcome to one of those times. Wedding Crashers fires off big, fat, raucous laughs as if it had an endless supply. It doesn't. The film limps a bit in the final stretch like a wedding guest who knows how to party butdoesn't know when to go home. A small price to pay for so much hot, rowdy fun.  --Peter Travers (Rolling Stone)
WEDDING CRASHERS is an exercise is nicely played absurdity. It’s laugh out loud funny and one of the diciest date movies ever.  --Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
About 20 minutes before the credits roll in "Wedding Crashers," something goes very wrong. It feels as if a drunken script doctor stumbled into the party, demanded to know where all the clichés had gone and insisted they be put right back where they belong.  --Rob Blackwelder
But all things considered: "Wedding Crashers" is an absolutely perfect date movie for those between the ages of 18 and 40. It's got lots of playfully profane material, two solid comedians working overtime, and just enough well-earned sweetness to keep everybody happy. It ain't high art, and it sure isn't deep, but you'll laugh a lot, you'll get a happy ending, and you'll see a bevy of gorgeous women. Not a bad way to spend a Friday night. --Scott Weinberg (eFilmCritic.com)
When “Wedding Crashers” feels up to it, the film is a hilarious vehicle for Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson to shake their comedic talents. However, someone forgot to mention that “Crashers” is a comedy to the director, who insists, regardless if it fits the framework of the picture, that “Crashers” is more of a romantic film. Thankfully, he’s overruled most of the time. --Brian Orndorf (eFilmCritic.com)
Not all of ``Wedding Crashers'' works, but because Vaughn and Wilson are so in touch with each other, it works well overall. Still, we could have done without the obligatory sodden grandma (Ellen Albertini Dow) spouting profanities and embarrassing sexual revelations, and the film rather stupidly indulges the eternal frat-boy theme of homosexual panic. --James Verniere
Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn make a great comedy team and there are some terrific gags here but Wedding Crashers is far too long and eventually outstays its welcome.  --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
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Owen Wilson
Armageddon, The Royal Tenenbaums, Meet the Parents |
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story |
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Live and Let Die, Somewhere in Time, Battlestar Galactica |
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I predict a long and fruitful future for Wedding Crashers – buckets of money – but by my count, it doesn’t just crash, it burns.  --Kimberley Jones (Austin Chronicle)
The weakest element of the film is the ending. It takes a little too long to get to the conclusion, even though it’s generally obvious in these films what’s going to happen. And the over-the-top ending is just a little too much. But it still retains a sense of humor, and I honestly think that’s the most important thing. --Michael Sheridan
Although "Wedding Crashers" makes a token pass at being romantic, it's a manifestly cynical comedy staged in salaciousness lite....There's usually something inherently amusing about movie scenes in which outsiders fit badly into an uppercrust social sphere where the eccentric, snooty rich beg to be undermined ungraciously. It's a cheap and easy way to enlist audience empathy.  --Ed Blank
Here he and Vaughn create a comedy duo I’d like to see more, ad libbing many of their scenes together. Whatever and however they did it, they have a chemistry and repartee that work....The film got an ovation at the media screening, and that doesn’t happen often. 9/10--Tony Medley
"The Wedding Crashers" has the occasional ring of familiarity. There's definitely something old and something new, even some things borrowed and humor that's blue. --Jeff Farance
The only flaw I would have to point out is that it can’t prevent itself from a cliché ending. In the end, it still needs to please the audience and give them their predictable outcome. Even with that, it’s done in a fashion that isn’t too sappy and stillstays true to a rated R flick. There is even a cameo towards the end that completes this movie as the summers funniest, perhaps the year’s best. A--Andrew Casertano (TheCinemaSource)
I wish I could recommend Wedding Crashers as a whole, as it does have some very funny moments, but most of those occur before the permanent derailment. The best advice I can give is to watch the first half and enjoy it for what it is, and skip out the lackluster climax and atrocious denouement.  --Vince Leo (Qwipster.net)
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