THE WEDDING CRASHERS
Directed by Dave Dobkin
Certificate 15

THIS is not just another dumb comedy made with ‘The Butterscotch Stallion’ Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn.
What starts out as a great idea – two men in their mid-thirties con their way into weddings of all kinds just to meet and bed fantastically beautiful girls – stays a great idea.
Our heroes, John Beckwith (Wilson) and Jeremy Klein (Vaughn, both pictured right), crash the ultimate wedding – that of the daughter of a highly placed politician (played to the teeth by Christopher Walken).
Despite its predictable beginning, the story carries on further and with better, more viable detail than could be expected from an American wedding-based comedy.
And for those who may have felt that Vince Vaughn peaked in Swingers, he’s back on form here as the crazy but confident insincere conqueror. Alongside Wilson, the two are best-friend divorce-lawyers who follow a lengthy if nebulous set of rules that govern what they do at weddings, why and when.
With admirable stoicism and a blithe charm, Wilson plays straight man to Vaughn’s jester, even if both of them vie for the limelight and the fast lines.
Thankfully free of gross humour, this is a tasteful yet raucous comedy retrofitted with a plot device used in The Magic Flute.
There are two serious lovers who mirror two not-so-serious lovers. So when Vaughn accidentally ends up with a sex-mad daughter and Wilson ends up with Claire Clearly, a beauty (Rachel McAdams) already engaged to a real jerk, you know classical laughs are set to spring.
A rollicking pace, completely surprisingly storylines and subplots surround some of the best comedic lines heard in any film this year.
Even if you dislike Wilson or Vaughn, The Wedding Crashers will make you change you mind about them, about American comedies and about weddings in general. This is a much much better film than the poster or its cast’s previous efforts may suggest.
If you like to laugh – and want to see some a great snappy montage footage – you cannot afford to miss this truly innovative and snappy comedy.