THE WEDDING CRASHERS: Celebration of Laughs

Comedies are my least favorite movie genre. If a comedy isn't funny...It fails. I don't care if the acting is top-notch. I don't care if the direction and cinematography are praised by their respective guilds. If a comedy isn't funny it ceases to be comedy and becomes an exercise in boredom. On the other hand, when a comedy works audiences can feel a buzz traveling through the theater. Everyone is laughing. Everyone can hear each other laughing ...The theater is connected. After all...Laughter is the best medicine when we're knee deep in summer movie hell. THE WEDDING CRASHERS is a funny movie and will most likely be the best comedy of 2005 (ELECTRA will not be included in the comedy category). In fact, it was so funny that it deserves a 2nd theater viewing. The audience was laughing so hard that I missed a lot of the verbal gags that were plentiful throughout the entire flick.

THE WEDDING CRASHERS tells the adventures of John, played by Owen Wilson, and Jeremy, played by Vince Vaughn. John and Jeremy play life long friends who are divorce mediators. On vacations they like to go hunting...Hunting for babes. Their hunting ground is weddings. As uninvited guests they crash the wedding nuptials and prey on woman who are emotionally vulnerable from all the romance (and alcohol) in the air. The movie begins with a montage of the boys on safari. They crash American weddings, Irish weddings, Indian weddings...Bridesmaids and single woman beware! Of course all of the women are hot, which is total b.s...but its fun to play along. At each wedding celebration they bag the legal limit. All of the weddings I attend never have hot woman in attendance. The only available woman I see are fighting to get as many sliver size slices of cake as humanly possible. Actually, I'm married and don't look at other woman...But it might explain why I didn't get a slice of cake at my own wedding?

As the movie continues the boys decide to crash one last wedding before the end of hunting season. The United States Treasury Secretary's (played by Christopher Walken) daughter is getting married. John, wanting to get involved in politics, feels this would be a great opportunity to meet the secretary. At the wedding John and Jeremy place dibs on their future trophies. John chooses Claire (Rachel McAdams) and Jeremy chooses Gloria (Isla Fisher), both are bridesmaids and sisters of the bride.

We all know the boy is going to get the girl and realize that John and Clair's courtship is the important relationship that the movie's plot revolves around. John's meets Claire by offering help with her wedding toast. Although Claire has a boyfriend she admires John's aloofness and crooked nose charm. Their courtship remains conventional and offers no surprises. There are a few laughs...But like I said above...The boy will get the girl.

Most of the comedy comes from the courtship between Jeremy and Gloria. After scoring easily with Gloria, Jeremy tries to make a quick escape. Claire proceeds to declare her longing for them to spend the rest of of their lives together...yikes! Because John is taking his time with Claire, Jeremy is forced to join his friend and the rest of the wedding party for a weekend in the Hamptons. Along the way Jeremy is sexually molested several times by Gloria who turns out to be a loony nymphomaniac. Most of the jokes are adult in nature and the language gets very bawdy. Isla Fisher (right) steals the movie. As Gloria, I couldn't wait to see what she was going to do to Jeremy next...Besides draining him of all of his bodily fluids. It was a good decision to cast a no-name in this part. If the producers hired a well known actress I'm sure the bawdy gags wouldn't been as bawdy.

Although THE WEDDING CRASHERS is about 25 minutes too long the audience gets a surprise performance from an unbilled star. "Chaz" is played by the hottest comedic actor of the day (no...I won't tell you who who it is). Chaz is the ultimate wedding crasher who has turned to funerals to score with babes. The movie is very funny and would be best seen in a theater full of people. We are nearing the end of summer movie season. THE WEDDING CRASHERS "8" is my favorite of the season so far. Go see this movie.

Movie news: Rachel McAdams is going to be a big star. Have you seen the trailer for RED EYE? It looks great!

KONG! KONG! KONG! The KING KONG trailer is awesome. It might be the best preview I've ever seen! Can't wait until December to see this flick! I knew the film was being made for over a year but did not know that it was taking place in the 1930's...Great decision Peter Jackson.