Wedding Crashers

Wedding Crashers is about two old friends who work together, they are divorce mediators; and play together, they crash weddings to get women. Their ingenious idea is to attend the weddings of strangers, mingle and hopefully get lucky with beautiful women. No wedding is safe from John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) who are equal opportunity wedding crashers. They crash any and all weddings, Irish, Indian, Italian, Jewish, they don't discriminate, they just go where the women are.

They have decided to call it quits but John wants to crash one more society wedding. They manage to crash the exclusive Cleary wedding. John and Jeremy are among the yachted guests who congratulate Treasury Secretary William Cleary (Christopher Walken) on the marriage of his daughter. They also strike gold when they meet Secretary Cleary's younger daughters. However, things start to go wrong when John falls hard for Claire Cleary (Rachel McAdams) and Gloria Cleary (Isla Fisher), the spoiled baby of the family wants daddy to let Jeremy and John come to the Cleary summer house with the other guests. Dad says no, baby throws a foot-stomping tantrum, gets her way and they all head out to the summer house. They have dinner and play touch football.

Actress Jane Seymour is Mrs. Cleary, but this is not her movie, she is the wife who doesn't have much to say. Ellen Albertini Dow is the foul mouthed grandmother who has a lot to say and doesn't mind sharing her thoughts at the dinner table. Little Gloria has her mind and hands on other things as she has dinner. She reaches under the table to fondle Vince Vaughn's very personal parts, while she looks innocent and he tries to pretend that nothing unusual is going on. This scene "may" have been amusing if it had been shown one time. However, more than once and it becomes extremely offensive. The movie would have lost nothing if this scene had been left on the cutting room floor. Vaughn's facial expressions would have told the story nicely.

After dinner when the men gather to play touch football, Claire's mean-spirited fiancée Sack Lodge (Bradley Cooper), plays in a hard, brutal fashion rather than for sport and fun. Todd (Keir O'Donnell) the Cleary's 'artist' son does not join in, and who can blame him. But his reason for not playing is that he hates his family. The befuddled Priest (Henry Gibson) is sort of just there, he doesn't seem to have a real place in this movie. One of the guests, Mrs. Kroeger is played by Rebecca De Mornay.

-Vanette Ryanes

Vanette Ryanes is a true movie maven. She has been an avid movie fan for more than 35 years and has a video library of 200 plus movies. She has a vast knowledge of classic black and white, noir and vintage color movies. If you have questions about movies contact Vanette, (Vannie to her friends) for answers, advice and recommendations.