MOVIE REVIEWS
The Wedding Crashers
Josh Brown
While in San Diego, my cousins and I had lots of free time in the evenings. One particular night, when we had nothing to do, we opted to go catch a movie at the theatre in one of the surrounding malls. I wanted to see The Devil's Rejects, but was advised to see House of 1000 Corpses before catching this sequel. The only other movie out that I hadn't seen already that I had any curiosity about was The Wedding Crashers.
When I saw the previews for this movie, and even after it came out, I was never really eager to see it. Sure, it looked somewhat funny, and I've always liked Vince Vaughn, but the premise of the movie just didn't seem to do it for me. But grudgingly, I agreed to sit through it. And actually, I was somewhat surprised.
But not much.
In the opening scene, it shows Vaughn and Owen Wilson (the two main characters) sitting down with a couple going through a difficult divorce. While the couple is arguing, the female actor makes one the most obvious screw ups in recent movie history. She is about to pop some painkillers, and the husband says, "Yeah, that's it, comatose for me baby." She then replies, "Shut your mouth while you're talking to me." Obviously she fucked up her line, but Vaughn and Wilson just looked at each other with dumbfounded looks on their faces, and rolled with the scene. It was funny because it was so obvious.
And that would be a reoccurring theme the rest of the movie. All the gags were obvious, the jokes were easily predictable and the story line was too clich to be taken seriously. Granted, the movie had its humor, its female eye candy and unrealistic love story, all of which made the movie everything I thought it would be.
They didn't even technically crash weddings. They just showed up to random weddings of people they didn't know and hooked up with random chicks from them. They were always the life of the parties, and did nothing to "crash" them.
It even had the predictable cameo from Will Farrell, who wasn't even that funny, to be honest. Overall, it was a sub par movie, but a decent comedy at best. I'm sure I could have found something much better to do while in San Diego. Live and learn though, right?
