Cert: 15
Stars: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken, Rachel McAdams, Isla Fisher, Jane Seymour, Bradley Cooper, Keir O’Donnell, Will Ferrell
Director: David Dobkin
Five-Second Summary: Two friends in their thirties gatecrash weddings to meet
John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) are a pair of unscrupulous lawyers who spend their summers gate crashing weddings, using false names and backgrounds, in an attempt to seduce and sleep with as many women as they can. They have been doing it for years and know all the angles. After picking out their prey, they go through their repertoire of tricks to get them into bed: John pretends to cry during the ceremony and dances with the flower girls to appear sensitive; Jeremy makes balloon animals for children.
When they crash the wedding of the daughter of Treasury Secretary Cleary (Christopher Walken), John properly falls for the one of the bride’s sisters, Claire (Rachel McAdams), while Jeremy has sex on the beach with another one, Gloria (Isla Fisher). Sadly for John, Claire already has a boyfriend in the unpleasant Sack (Bradley Cooper), and Gloria turns to be a little unhinged as she declares her undying love for Jeremy. The pair end up back at the Cleary summer mansion as John tries to separate Claire from Sack while fighting off the advances of her mother (Jane Seymour). It quickly becomes apparent that the whole Cleary family is nuts.
There are plenty of laughs to be had here, especially when Gloria leaves Jeremy tied to his bed, vulnerable to the advances of her gay brother Todd (Keir O’Donnell). Owen Wilson is just about convincing as a man who has realised the error of his ways in the face of true love, and Isla Fisher (of Home And Away fame) does a great turn as the deranged, sex-mad Gloria. Both Vaughn and Wilson are funny enough for you to mostly forgive them for their sleazy exploits and a cameo by Will Ferrell (as their wedding crashing mentor) is worth the wait.
Like many a best man’s speech, the combination of risqué humour with sentimentality is a little awkward, but the film’s biggest problem is simply its length. At two hours, it is plainly 30 minutes too long and some judicious editing would certainly have produced something a lot snappier.
Verdict Funny, good performances, but too long
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