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Wedding Crashers

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 39 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Romance
Written by:
Steve Faber
Bob Fisher
Directed by: David Dobkin
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 15, 2005
DVD: January 3, 2006
Running Time: 119 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for sexual content/nudity and language
Starring Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams, Christopher Walken, Jane Seymour, Isla Fisher, and Will Ferrell
This outrageous comedy stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as divorce mediators and lifelong friends who have never met a wedding they couldn't get themselves into. (New Line Cinema)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Funny, ungirdled romp - a buddy picture about buddies who actually know what women want.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Sometimes a movie comedy just clicks. Welcome to one of those times.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
The flick brings two hours of great big sloppy buck-wild laughs by morphing into a cross between "Meet the Parents" and "Some Like It Hot."
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Head, shoulders, funny bone and brain above the competition. It's the best comedy I've seen this year.
Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are enormously funny in this farce.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Wedding Crashers may be the most optimistic Hollywood comedy of the year, because it restores at least some dim hope that directors, writers and actors with actual brains in their heads can somehow triumph over unimaginative studio execs. In that way, Wedding Crashers isn't just the life of the party, but its pulse.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
The script by Steve Faber and Bob Fisher is one of those high-speed, ping-pong-banter marvels in which you're still laughing from the last great line when you're hit by the next.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Rick Kisonak
Not since the breakthrough days of Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler and the Farrelly brothers have two hours of movie comedy simultaneously felt so wrong but oh so right.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
Witty, unhinged and fearless, it's exactly the kind of movie we need now.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Hopelessly raunchy, helplessly romantic, and wickedly, wickedly funny.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Good, indecent fun starring two of the most amiable comedy actors around.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Wedding Crashers is unashamedly profane and, for its first two acts, very funny, a classic guilty pleasure that revels in its basest elements.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Tom Cruise might have saved his family from apocalypse. But Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn have just saved our summer.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker Anthony Lane
The first twenty minutes of Wedding Crashers are rabid with simple pleasure.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky
Here's a tip: When Vaughn and Wilson are outed as impostors and forced to leave Walken's estate, grab your stuff and walk out. You'll think you just saw a comedy masterpiece.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
The two key roles are wonderfully cast with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn and the gross-but-not-too-gross humor will score with young moviegoers. But Wedding Crashers is still a letdown. The film never quite lives up to the promise of its premise.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
It parades a screen chemistry rarely seen since the original Butch and Sundance.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
Surprisingly flabby, with lazy writing and some final-act lurches into unironic rom-com that seem at odds with the bizarro premise.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
There's little doubt a person can get a little pent-up looking for a good romantic comedy -- but you might want to save yourself until something better comes along.
Read Full Review >Premiere Sara Brady
It’s an uneven outing from the Frat Pack, and an equally sad commentary on the state of American comedy: This run-on mess is the funniest film of the last six months.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
A showcase for Vince Vaughn's rantings and Owen Wilson's standard but affable chum act.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Watching Wedding Crashers is like stuffing yourself with raw cookie dough. It's a guilty pleasure that goes down easily, but you can't help wondering what it would've tasted like if someone had finished the job.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
Reasonably enjoyable until its guys are forced to grow up. Because bad behavior is usually more fun to watch than good, the movie is especially fine during the preliminaries.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Vaughn can motormouth like a machine gun, spraying men, women and children with manic, rat-a-tat outbursts of toxic insincerity. It's often dirty, yes. But it's also manic and inspired.
Read Full Review >Variety Brian Lowry
Despite flashes of nudity, crudity and mockery of women's raging hormones at the first sight of a trousseau, at its core it's just a big pushover with the heart of a chick flick.
Read Full Review >Empire Nick De Semlyen
Wedding Crashers doesn't quite live up to its promise, but through no fault of its off-the-wall cast.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
Most of the time Wedding Crashers is more genteel than it is outrageous (or funny), playing like an only slightly less benign spin on the tiresome fish-out-of-water farce that fueled the two Meet the Parents movies.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
Each star has his moments, and the supporting cast is good, especially Walken, playing one of his less extreme characters; Jane Seymour as his promiscuous wife; and the stunning Rachel McAdams as their daughter and Wilson's love interest.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Angel Cohn
Delivers 90 minutes of riotously funny raunch; unfortunately, its running time is closer to two hours.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
There are a few good laughs, but not nearly enough clever ideas to keep things hopping for two hours.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Explosively funny in spots -- this is easily Vaughn's best work since "Swingers" -- but it comes wrapped in a package so sweet and sugary, so tediously moral and conventional, it sabotages the laughs.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
After a promising beginning, this movie crashes and burns.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt
Walken is an odd choice for a D.C. power player, wasting his creepiness on this straight, respectable role.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
In spite of its cast and seemingly can't-miss premise, Wedding Crashers is at its best a succession of mild chuckles.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
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.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
Unfortunately, the inspired concept is coupled with weak screenwriting, and the movie turns out to be much more fun to think about than it is to watch.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
A stiff drink or maybe some pharmaceutical assistance might have made me overlook the film's sour tone, or the unremarkableness of its direction.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.1 (out of 10) based on 146 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Abby L gave it a10:
I am still laughing. This movie was not serious at all and I liked that, except for the end where it tried (and failed) but you gotta love it.
Adam P. gave it a3:
Incredibly I watched this movie twice because the first time I saw it i thought I had missed something. Two hours went by and no clear direction or clever humor emerged. After watching it the second time I realized what happened, I lost four hours of my life. This comedy is on the same scale as fart jokes, for the unintelligent who need to be force-fed comedy.
Andy S. gave it a7:
Hilarious for the first hour or so and starts to get a little corny near the end. Still a very enjoyable movie.
James T. gave it a7:
This movie is not for the overly religious, or people with weak morals. This movie is a well smart out comedy, with some better writing than we've seen in the past. Movies like this can be a dime a dozen, or come out as a bad sitcom cliche. However the wedding crashers does have some genuinely good moments, and the story isn't completely convoluted with bad comedy cliches. Overall: 7.4 Good.
Destany L. gave it a9:
The most hilarious, laugh out loud, movie I have seen in years. Yet, it is also heart felt. This film has every component a viewer would want and it does so with ease. I was not a big fan of Will Ferrell’s role in the movie, but that is just a small percentage of this magnitude of a film. Please rent this. I can almost guarantee you will enjoy it.
Marlene gave it a0:
Glad I waited for it to come out on DVD/video. I only wasted $2.50 on the video. I thought it was stupid and had too much cursing and nudity.
Lou F. gave it a1:
We kept waiting for this movie to be either funny or good. It wasn't. Just offensive and dumb.
