Wedding Crashers
cast: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams
The good: deliriously funny script
The bad: gets dull
John and Jeremy are expert wedding crashers (Wilson and Vaughn, respectively). They go to dozens of weddings every year, impersonating as relatives so that they can mingle with the crowd, get a taste of the free food and drinks, and ultimately, get the big prize. The prize is, naturally, a single night with a gorgeous woman. But when their biggest wedding crash yet turns out not as well as planned, things start to get a bit out of control.
Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn is probably our generation's most consistently funny and charming comedians. Their presence in a film almost always guarantees a good time, even when the films themselves aren't that good (Dodgeball for Vaughn, or Starsky and Hutch for Wilson). Wedding Crashers is a fantastically good film and the addition of the two comedic geniuses makes the film all the more enjoyable. I'm not sure though if the acting is better than the script. On one point, the two leads ooze charm and dishes out laughs throughout the whole film, but then again, without the script, they wouldn't be half as funny. On another point, while the script is indeed tight and funny, it does lose quite a big amount of steam as the film reaches its final moments. Maybe the film should have ended sooner rather than being forcibly lenghtened with unnecessary scenes.
What is sure, however, is that the film guarantees to be a wonderful time in the theatre. And I'm assuming, more so when you see it with friends. (4/5)
The good: deliriously funny script
The bad: gets dull
John and Jeremy are expert wedding crashers (Wilson and Vaughn, respectively). They go to dozens of weddings every year, impersonating as relatives so that they can mingle with the crowd, get a taste of the free food and drinks, and ultimately, get the big prize. The prize is, naturally, a single night with a gorgeous woman. But when their biggest wedding crash yet turns out not as well as planned, things start to get a bit out of control.
Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn is probably our generation's most consistently funny and charming comedians. Their presence in a film almost always guarantees a good time, even when the films themselves aren't that good (Dodgeball for Vaughn, or Starsky and Hutch for Wilson). Wedding Crashers is a fantastically good film and the addition of the two comedic geniuses makes the film all the more enjoyable. I'm not sure though if the acting is better than the script. On one point, the two leads ooze charm and dishes out laughs throughout the whole film, but then again, without the script, they wouldn't be half as funny. On another point, while the script is indeed tight and funny, it does lose quite a big amount of steam as the film reaches its final moments. Maybe the film should have ended sooner rather than being forcibly lenghtened with unnecessary scenes.
What is sure, however, is that the film guarantees to be a wonderful time in the theatre. And I'm assuming, more so when you see it with friends. (4/5)
posted by NaCl at Sunday, July 31, 2005
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