Divorce mediators John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey are business partners and lifelong friends who share one truly unique springtime hobby--crashing weddings! Whatever the ethnicity of the wedding party--Jewish Italian Irish Chinese Hindu--the charismatic and charming duo always have clever back stories for inquisitive guests and inevitably become the hit of every reception where they strictly adhere to their proven rules of wedding crashing to meet and pick up women aroused by the very thought of marriage. At the tail end of another successful season of toasting brides and grooms Jeremy learns that the daughter of Treasury Secretary William Cleary and his wife Kathleen is getting married in what is sure to be the Washington D.C. social event of the year. After infiltrating the lavish affair John and Jeremy quickly set their sights on two bridesmaids Claire and Gloria Cleary. With the lavish reception in full swing Jeremy works his game plan to perfection in seducing Gloria ...
Review
Wedding Crashers is the latest installment in the new overthetop comedies cut from the same cloth as Old School or Meet The Parents. It will take its rightful place in history along side these great comedies as it deserves.
Business partners John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) are also best friends that go way back. Every year they get together and go on a binge of crashing weddings to take advantage of the romance in the air and ultimately to score with the jealous bridesmaids or any other single woman for that matter. John and Jeremy are very smooth and do a lot of research to get a backstory that explains who they are how they are connected to the families and why they are there. They also have what seems to be at least a hundred rules to ensure the crashing of the wedding goes as planned and of course this could not be possible without the original wedding crasher Chaz (Will Ferrell) who is not only THE wedding crasher but also an innovator as you will see.
This all works very well for them until they decide to crash the wedding of weddings Secretary Clearys (Christopher Walken) daughter and her new husbandtobe. John was unable to achieve his goal at the Cleary wedding of establishing a relationship with his other daughter Claire (Rachel McAdams) who he is also falling in love with. Jeremy too is having his problems after achieving his goal with the Secretarys other daughter Gloria (Isla Fisher) perhaps a bit too quickly as he finds out it was her first time and she quickly attaches herself.
The long story made short both John and Jeremy end up on an extended weekend with the Cleary family and hilarity ensues very much the same way Ben Stiller was put in uncomfortable positions by his fiancés family in Meet The Parents.
This was a great comedy in which I have heard compared to Theres Something About Mary. I would not place it on such an iconic platform but it was very good and holds its own along with other great comedies of today. Vaughn and Owen are a great team. Will Ferrell is typical Will Ferrell in his small bit part as Chaz. Christopher Walkens part was too small to really be noticed. Isla Fisher played the psycho firsttimer in such a way that it even scared me.
The biggest surprise of this movie for me was Rachel McAdams. I took notice of her in Mean Girls and I believed she would be typecast in such roles for probably her whole career but she proved she could carry a movie as the lead love interest and was very captivating with her gorgeous smile.
If you liked the movies mentioned in this review then I highly recommend seeing this one as well. It will not disappoint. 8.510