// The skinny: John and Jeremy
are a pair of incorrigible friends who crash innumerable weddings to
get chicks until one of them actually falls for a bridesmaid.
// Review: This is one of those
movies where the premise is so brilliant and obvious that you can't
believe it hadn't been made before. Every guy knows that girls are most
aroused and vulnerable at weddings. It's like they are a storm of happiness
and frustration when they are gazing at their fantasy through a looking
glass.
/ Enter Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn who routinely crash weddings and
prey on these singles women. Whether the ceremony is for Jews, Irish,
or even Chinese, they create a ridiculous back story and then insinuate
themselves into the wedding party. The movie does a fantastic job at
playing on the steroetypes that makes girls go faint of heart and of
loose of bras.
/ Vince Vaughn is in classic form. He is channeling his best Double
Down Trent as Owen Wilson's wingman. The story is simple: at one wedding
Wilson actually falls for a girl (the tasty Rachel McAdams), but she
has a boyfriend. So he tries to win her over and Vaughn tags along.
Hilarity ensues.
/ If you stepped out halfway to use the bathroom, you would swear that
you walked into an entirely different movie. As it was driving straight
towards classic guy film, it turns on a dime and devolves into a chick
flick. PSEUDO-SPOILER ALERT: The final scene has Wilson showing up at
a wedding for his last hail mary attempt to get the girl. Wow, that's
as cliched as red exploding barrels in a video game.
// Wrap up: I feel so mixed about
this one. The first half was awesome, but the second half made me want
to smash a beer bottle over my head. In the end, take a girl and all
the romance will have her forgiving you for laughing at all of the earlier
chauvanist jokes.