
Wedding Crashers - Uncorked
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Lifelong friends, John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Gray (Vince Vaughn) have a hobby--they crash weddings. In the celebratory, romantic and disinhibited atmosphere of wedding receptions, these two party animals make out like bandits when it comes to picking up women. John and Jeremy are so successful because they approach the weddings with an undisguised zest and liberated desire to just have a great time. They adopt pre-agreed identities with accompanying background information and successfully melt into receptions where they are the life and soul of the party.
When the film begins, John is getting a little tired of all the merriment, but Jeremy is eager to clean up on the next season's round of weddings. One of the reasons their deception works so well is that they keep within the guidelines of ironclad rules established by an earlier wedding crasher partner--Chazz (Will Ferrell). But all the fun and games begins to spin out of control when the sleazy pair crash a high society wedding for the daughter of Senator Cleary (Christopher Walken).
I approached "Wedding Crashers" with a fair amount of skepticism-so many comedies are disappointing, but this film (I watched the Uncorked version) is hilarious. The script captures the more bizarre aspects of John and Jeremy's yin and yang relationship, and the odd way in which Jeremy uses psychobabble PC speech to commit the most socially outrageous acts. Once these sleazy playboys break their own rule and agree to visit Senator Cleary's home, we know there will be trouble, and in many ways John and Jeremy receive their just desserts. Jeremy is constantly battered and assaulted by Claire Cleary's (Rachel McAdams) obnoxious, macho boyfriend. At the same time, Jeremy can't shake the youngest daughter, Gloria (Isla Fisher), and he also becomes the love object of reclusive son Todd (Keir O'Donnell). While John begins to feel some regret for his earlier behaviour, Jeremy remains as amoral as ever, so it's hysterically funny--and appropriate that he endures a horrible weekend for his friend's sake.
The film's ending was a little disappointing--I was hoping for an outrageous, over-the-top scene, and the script just fizzled. But before that point, there were a lot of laughs along the way. Will Ferrell's role was small but memorable, and overall, this was one of the funniest new films I've seen in ages--
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