Wedding Crashers
2005
**
Director: David Dobkin
Cast: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken, Rachel McAdams, Isla Fisher, Bradley Cooper, Jane Seymour, Keir O'Donnell, Ellen Albertini Tow
John and Jeremy are divorce mediators and BFFs who crash weddings to bed gorgeous single women. In the latest nuptials things get complicated when John begins to develop real feelings for Claire, the bride's sister. David Dobkin's film begins as a raunchy and mildly funny comedy, but as the crashers inevitably mature up, the story turns into romantic mush. The script by first-timers Steve Faber and Bob Fisher combines two of the genre's most clichéd and overused premises: 1) A boy falls in love with a girl through a deception and 2) the boy faces a romantic rival who is an obnoxious asshole. The resulting film is tired, overlong, and sexist. All the female characters are horny and gullible bimbos except Claire. Then again, this presumably smart young woman is about to marry a superficial and chauvinistic boor.
