WHO MADE IT? | Director: David Dobkin Cast: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughan, Rachel McAdams, Isla Fisher, Christopher Walken and Jane Seymour | WHAT’S IT ABOUT? | Divorce mediators John Beckwith (Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vaughan) are business partners and life long friends. They share one unique hobby – crashing weddings. They stick strictly to their “rules of wedding crashing” to meet and pick up single women. Unfortunately when they crash the wedding of Treasury Secretary William Cleary’s (Walken) daughter they seduce the bridesmaids Claire (McAdams) and Gloria (Fisher) Cleary and fall hook line and sinker for them. | WHAT’S IT LIKE? | The first hour is hysterical – it’s sheer slapstick with a great wedding crashing montage showing the boys getting into weddings of every shape and creed. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughan are a great comic double act. They have wonderful on screen chemistry with each other and with their love interests, Rachel McAdams and Isla Fisher. Christopher Walken and Jane Seymour are somewhat wasted though, particularly Seymour who is brilliant in the first half of the film and then suddenly disappears without a trace in the second half. The problem with this movie is it’s too long for a comedy at almost 2 hours long (padded out with a cameo by Will Farrell) and half way through turns all serious and sentimental losing the plot completely. The first hour will have you crying with laughter and the second with despair | WEDDING CRASHERS opens on 14 July 2005
