| | | Life's a Party. Crash It.
Features: DVD, Unrated, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Aspect Ratio 2.40:1, English, Spanish, Subtitled
More footage and more laughs make this Uncorked Edition a "bust-a-gut, roll-in-the-aisle" (Maxim) comedy and the most raucous party of the year!Guided by a set of "wedding crashing rules," John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) can charm their way into any wedding...and into the hearts of every bridesmaid. But at the biggest nuptials of the year, John breaks the rules and falls for the daughter (Rachel McAdams) of the US Secretary of Treasury (Christopher Walken), and Jeremy is left at the mercy of her "stage-five-clinger" sister (Isla Fisher). Being there for his buddy, Jeremy follows John to the family's huge estate for a weekend that may even be too wild for these professional party guys.
"Trust me: You won't hate yourself in the morning. These swindlers are sensational." Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Daily News
"Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are enormously funny in this farce." J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader
"...two hours of great big sloppy buck-wild laughs...a cross between Meet the Parents and Some Like It Hot." Kyle Smith, New York Post
"Funny, ungirdled romp - a buddy picture about buddies who actually know what women want." Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
"Sometimes a movie comedy just clicks. Welcome to one of those times." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Editor's Note
Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are an unbeatable combination as two Washington DC lawyers who get their kicks, and their girls, by crashing weddings. Displaying talent, wit, intelligence, and ample charm, the pair seldom fails at their mutual mission of seduction. But eventually they get bored with the routine. Everything explodes when they crash an upper-crust wedding given by US Senator William Cleary (Christopher Walken). Jeremy (Vaughn) makes the ostensible mistake of seducing Cleary's sexually ravenous daughter Gloria (Isla Fisher) and John (Wilson) falls head over heels for the beautiful, slightly sarcastic older sister, Claire (Rachel McAdams). But Claire is nearly engaged to a slimy, macho, ivy-league snob played with beady-eyed gusto by ALIAS's Bradley Cooper. The boys get lured away on a weekend trip to the Cleary's estate, which is when the film begins to resemble an early 1930s pre-code comedy with its innuendo-filled banter, eccentric grandmothers, suspicious rivals, and copious bed-hopping. Vaughn's motor-mouth aggression plays off Wilson's irresistible sensitivity (and vice versa) to such perfection that they leave other contemporary romantic comedy teams in the dust. They manage to get plenty of laughs and warmth from their believably close male friendship without resorting to any clichéd homoerotic references. Their respective love interests are also outstanding, particularly McAdams who displays extraordinary wit and presence in addition to her stunning beauty. Walken is surprisingly low-key as the senator, tuning his usual craziness down to a few tensile stares. Seventies mini-series staple Jane Seymour is memorable as the senator's sex-starved, boozed-up wife, who makes a play for John.
| Features | 9 More Minutes! | | Also Includes Rated Version As Seen In Theaters | | Audio Commentary With David Dobkin | | Audio Commentary With Owen Wilson & Vince Vaughn | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital Stereo | | Behind-The-Scenes Featurettes | | Deleted Scenes | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, Spanish |
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Release Information
| | Studio: New Line |
| Release Date: 11/13/2007 |
| Original Release Date: 2005 | | Catalog ID: 11118 | | UPC: 00794043111181 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Standard 1.33:1 [4:3] |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"[A] funny, ungirdled romp....Garrulous Vaughn makes expert use of his off-the-cuff, chow-it-down, guy-to-guy solidity..." 07/22/2005 p.52-53New York Times
"[A]miably raunchy....[Mr. Wilson] has carved out a singular movie niche as our reigning dude, the quintessential American guy..." 07/15/2005 p.E11 Rolling Stone
"It's the anything-goes sass that crashes CRASHERS into the level of comic nirvana....McAdams is a showstopping beauty with the talent to bend a laugh line to her will." 07/28/2005 p.91 Uncut
"The comedy's both astute and bawdy..." 01/01/2006 p.138 Premiere
"Scene-for-scene, this was last year's funniest movie....The funny here is all in the journey..." 02/01/2006 p.107 Uncut
Ranked #20 in Uncut's Best Films Of 2005 -- "Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are on peerless comic form here as committed bachelors stalking wedding receptions..." 01/01/2006 p.82-83 Chicago Sun-Times 6 of 10
"Wedding Crashers" is all runway and no takeoff. It assembles the elements for a laugh-out-loud comedy, but it can't make them fly. There are individual moments that are very funny. But it takes a merciless focus to make a good comedy, and the director, David Dobkin, has too much else on his mind. There are sequences involving Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson where you sense that the actors should have just broken into the cockpit and taken over the controls. There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is...There were probably days on the set of "Wedding Crashers" when everyone thought they had a winner. Vaughn and Wilson do dialogue scenes together that achieve a poetry of comic timing and invention. Rachel McAdams is a honey, and Isla Fisher has everything she needs to play a hilarious nymphomaniac, except the dialogue and the opportunity. But how do you misplace Christopher Walken in a movie like this?...You know all those horror stories about a cigar-chomping producer who screens a movie and says they need to lose 15 minutes and shoot a new ending? "Wedding Crashers" needed a producer like that. - Roger Ebert
Reel.com 8 of 10
Like There's Something About Mary, this rude but never mean-spirited buddy comedy starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn is laugh-out-loud funny and surprisingly sweet-natured. Not a film for prudes or politically correct, i.e., humorless, viewers, Wedding Crashers gives the stars free, R-rated rein to show off their crack comic timing as two womanizers working the wedding party circuit. Director David Dobkin (Shanghai Knights) ably guides Wilson and Vaughn through this engaging comedy from sitcom veterans Steve Faber and Bob Fisher (Married with Children). If Wedding Crashers loses a bit of its momentum towards the end, Wilson and Vaughn are so funny together that you're willing to overlook the film's occasional slack pacing and sappy romantic moments...The narrative focus shifts from the duo to Wilson's pursuit of McAdams. As a result, the energy flags and the laughs noticeably diminish...Fortunately, Dobkin and his stars pull it all together to end Wedding Crashers on a high note. In a season dominated by family-friendly films, Wedding Crashers is just the bawdy tonic for anyone seeking a good belly laugh. - Tim Knight
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