Metacritic TV

Real Wedding Crashers, The

SERIES: NBC, Monday 10:00p (60 minutes)

Starring Steve Byrne, Ben Gleib, Desi Lydic, Catherine Reitman, and Gareth Reynolds

Genre(s): Comedy, Reality (Non-Competitive)

FIRST AIR DATE: April 23, 2007

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

19 / 100

Critic Reviews

40 The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
A little of this kind of excitement goes a long way. One crashed wedding can be entertaining, but a steady stream could wear thin.
30 Variety Brian Lowry
Watching the show brings to mind attending the wedding of someone you barely know or don't really like: Sure, it would be better if everything went well, but after awhile, all you really want is for it to be over so you can get out of there.
30 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
A show that's more boring than funny, an investment of entertainment time that's not worth making.
30 Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield
Their team of comedy actors has some spunk and talent, but the show more closely resembles a commercial for mystery dinner theater, complete with testimonials by real audience members about how fun it all was in the end.
25 New York Daily News David Hinckley
If, years later, you're still trying to wash away the foul taste of Fox's "My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance," the idea of putting family members and friends through emotional anguish for the sake of prime-time entertainment isn't any funnier than it sounds.
25 People Weekly Tom Gliatto
Apart from the fact that the gags aren't funny... it's off-putting to see something sacred being mucked around with. [30 Apr 2007, p.37]
10 Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
[It] implodes on pretty much every level.
0 Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
OK, so is "The Real Wedding Crashers" juvenile, disappointing, disastrous, hollow, devoid, desperate, or disingenuous? Let's just say the show is "bad," plain and simple, and leave it at that.
0 New York Post Linda Stasi
"The Real Wedding Crashers" is about as much fun as going to your Uncle Fred's fifth wedding to a fat phone sex operator. In other words, a wedding you don't have to attend.
0 Washington Post Tom Shales
An HD broadcast: Hugely Dumb.

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