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Wedding Crashers
- Review Date: January 19, 2006
- R
- Genre: Comedy
- 2005
Common Sense Media says
This raucous, boisterous comedy is not for kids.
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that the movie features sexual humor, imagery (bared breasts), and language (including slang for gay and lesbian sex and repeated uses of the f-word). There is lying, drinking, smoking, and sex (couples appear in various states of undress, including a bondage scene). The film includes a reference to "rolling a fatty," some rough touch football (hard tackling by a very competitive player, whom someone jokingly describes as being "on steroids"), a bloody beating, vomiting, attempted seductions of one man by his girlfriend-to-be's mother, an attempted homosexual seduction, and a woman's masturbation of her lover under the dinner table.
What's the story?
Divorce mediators John (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy (Vince Vaughn) are cocky, careless, and fast-talking hustlers. By day they counsel angry or otherwise miserable couples, but once "wedding season" starts, they attend weddings under fake names, in order to eat, drink, and meet women. Everything changes when John falls in love with Claire (Rachel McAdams) at her sister's wedding. The stakes seem high for this latest deception, because her father is Treasury Secretary William Cleary (Christopher Walken), her lusty sister Gloria (Isla Fisher) takes an avid liking to Jeremy, and her mother Kathleen (Jane Seymour) tries to seduce John. That, and, Claire is engaged to marry wealthy, well-positioned bully Sack (Bradley Cooper), which means that John and Jeremy's weekend at the Cleary compound is comprised of competitions and deceptions, as John tries to win Claire and Jeremy tries to avoid Gloria (and her brother, who decides he's in love with Jeremy).
Is it any good?
Raucous and happily obnoxious, WEDDING CRASHERS makes fun of liars and cheaters, ultimately celebrating a shlocky version of "true love." The premise of David Dobkin's frantic comedy has been described as a return to R-rated jokes (like the hair gel gag in Something About Mary), set against a PG-13 tide. But here the R leads to less risky or even imaginative writing than predictable uses of explicit language, sexual situations, and adolescent humor. At Claire's house, The Meet the Parents-style commotion includes familiar, if vaguely raunchy humor.
Usually, a little Vaughn goes a long way, but here he serves as welcome respite from Wilson's cloying romantic lead. Though Vaughn embodies the film's embrace of vulgar comedy, he also maintains a sense of irony. But Wilson is stuck with the "sincere" role in an otherwise mostly boisterous movie, and he's unconvincing during his moony-eyed romance montages and slow-moving amid the mayhem.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about the lessons learned by John and Jeremy. How do they come to realize that their self-centered gallivanting is immature? How does the movie set up a contrast between their deceitfulness and that of Sack, who cheats at touch football and on his fiancée?
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greatest movie since american wedding!!!!
i really liked this movie. it's hilarious!! great combination of american wedding and old school!!!
definitely go see it. you won't be dissappointed!!
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This movie was extremely crude.
I laughed once at some physical humor, like someone getting knocked down. Not funny and extremely disturbing for anyone with any human decency. Anyone with a conscience wouldn't think this movie was funny at all.
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Most Innappropriate Sexual Dialogue/Situations Ever
I have seen Eurotrip, Road Trip, Harold and Kumar, and Team America and this by far has the most innapropriate dialogue. Some parts were very funny funny, but some parts were pushing the limits and making my dad, my friend, and I very uncomfortable. This movie depicts many kinds of weird and sometimes hilarious sex scenes and creates bad morals for other kids. I wish I waited till network TV and if you have a kid who wants to see it, make them wait till it comes on network TV. But adults who don't mind a lot of sex jokes, It will be a good night for them at the movies.
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Horrible, never see it again not appropriate for any kids at alll.
I really hated this. REALLY. I recently saw the unrated version, but I really can't imagine that it's that different from the theatrical version. The sex scenes were graphic, and raunchy. As much as I enjoy Owen Wilson and Christopher Walken as actors, this movie was not supported by the acting alone. They do a stereotype of a gay man, and the movie it self is predictable. It shows no good roles models, is not funny at all, and NOT appropriate for kids. There is graphic nudity, as well, the jokes are horrible, the story line isn't any better, there are no role models and if you even consider getting this movie for your kids, please don't. But, if you do, DON'T watch the unrated version. I'd give this no stars, for a tasteless, tactless, story, plotline, and overall movie. But since I have to I wish they'd allow half star ratings, since this doesn't deserve the one star I'm about to give it.
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Good tor teens
The movie had alot of sex and languge
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| Studio: | New Line |
| Director: | David Dobkin |
| Cast: | Christopher Walken, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Run time: | 119 minutes |
| Theatrical release date: | July 15, 2005 |
| DVD release date: | January 3, 2006 |
| MPAA rating: | R |
| MPAA explanation: | sexual content/nudity and language |
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