Wedding Crashers [2005]
Director: David Dobkin
Actor: Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Christopher Walken
What a wonderful new production from Ferrell/Stiller/Owen/Vaughn, previously of Zoolander and Dodgeball fame. This is, to me, the funniest of them all so far, mostly because I don’t dig Stiller much, but I dig Vaughn all the more. What a boy’s boy he is. Love it.
Anyway, the film is about two friends John (Wilson) and Jeremy (Vaughn) who are self-styled, semi-professional wedding crashers, which basically means they show up at weddings, pretend to be family, and party like nothing else, scoring heaps of chicks along the way. They’re glib fast-talkers, conmen who will stoop to untold depths in order to score the poon. They are addicted and no how to play weddings and be liked like no others. They decide to go to the mother of all weddings, where the daughter of the Secretary of Finance (Walken) is getting married. There they both get involved with the two other daughters of the Secretary, which leads to much hilarity as Jeremy has, what is known in the Wedding Crasher’s Jargon as, a “Stage 5 Clinger” and John is falling head over heels with the one daughter of the Secretary who isn’t available.
The best quote of this film has to be Vaughn saying; “I’m gonna go see Dr. Finklestein and I’m gonna tell him we have a whole new bag of issues. We can forget about mom for a while.”
Great film!
