- Take a pot shot but be warned.

The Wedding Crashers is a screwball comedy about two older single guys, John (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy (Vince Vaughn) who don’t want one girlfriend as they are too busy serially seeking out single girls by gate crashing wedding parties. Calculatedly they use their charisma to score at exotic weddings, from Jewish to Italian. Enter a series of oft seen-before movie clichés: eyeing up the good looking young woman and looking teary eyed at the right moment to the sad stories of killing someone at a war – all aimed at inducing female empathy, but is far from funny.

  Enter two attractive young women to keep these boys straight. Red-heads Claire (Rachel McAdams) and Gloria (Isla Fisher) are the daughters of Secretary Cleary (Christopher Walkin), who is touted as the next president by a prestigious magazine, and the wedding crashers spend the week with them at their father’s mansion.

 But Vaughn is naturally humorous when his character gets into spots of bother, like when he is tied up in his bedroom preyed upon by the gay brother of the Cleary family and then the senior Cleary enters, however even the better scenes fall short of the mark.

 The thematic depth is found at the beginning when capital investors John and Jeremy give their divorced clients some advice – don’t get angry with one another and move on. I guess the boys could practice what they preach, at least in moving from one state of behaviour to another. Later, John is mortally challenged by his love interest’s pronouncements about the virtues of true love. All of which means this is a movie about how guys could be more committed although it does not moralise about John and Jeremy’s antics – nah, they are great guys underneath.

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