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The son was as stupid character, and I found some of his scenes offensive. His character was in such poor taste, and circa some bad 80's film. The only time anythign with his son was funny was Vaughn comments on the picture, they rest of it was just bad.

Vaughn and Wilson looked 10 years to old for their love interests.

The love stories were to predictable and boring.

Vaughn was funny, but his funny scenes were cut up by long stretches of meh.

Given what see about Walken in term sof his son and the comments and his future run for president, his overall, whatever reaction tot his daughter's choices is illogical..we are led to believe that mcAdams goes out with crazy boy to join to families, and that this is what her father and psyho boy wants, and then her father is like, whatever. I found the movie completely unralistic, which would have been ok if the movie was funny, but Vaughna dn the cameo by Ferrell are really the onyl good parts of hte film, and that amounts to maybe 25 minutes. The rest of it is meh.

Is this really a rule of the forum, b/c if it well then I can go back to onot visitng this forum. Its a review foruma nd I have to alret peopel to spoilers, I mean c'mon, this is just insane.

I now have to but all my posts here in white, so why bother posting.

Thanks Ripper.
She makes a fine point. This is a post-viewing review forum. Its been stated over and over again that its for reviews and discussions for people after they've sene the movie. If one doesn't want to know about the movie contents before-ahnd...don't read the thread on it. Read it after watching the movie.

What's the big deal?

People can discuss anything having to do with the movie here.

Apparently, Wedding Crashers is popular enough that it fills seats despite knowing the cameo...so hey, clearly there's more to its style and content than that anyways. I still haven't seen it. Can't wait though. I'll try to squeeze it in tomorrow. Its between it and Charlie, both of which interest me. Maybe I'll do a double header?

Agreed, if they want a feel for how the board feels just read the grades. I don't read the thread till Ia hve seen the film or I have decided I don;t care baout spoilers. Outisde this forum spoiler warnings should be used always, but in here we need to relax the rules.

Posters coudl do a hsort one sentence sum of their reivew at the top of their post near their grade and then start the spoilers after, but to have to place me review in white text, well 95% of the posts here would be white text..it goes against the point of the forum.

Well, that was a waste of two hours and $6.50 that I coulda spent on Charlie... I have now learned that I should never think that luck is on my side and I will never be pulled into a coin toss ever again.

I am currently trying to figure out if this movie has so many brain cells that I won't be able to function when college starts up again next month.

I just got back from seeing the stupidest movie I've ever seen, and nothing can change my mind. I can't believe I let my sister drag me into this. I should have been more persuasive. I could have been sitting in a fun movie, laughing my head off for two hours (Charlie). Instead, I got stuck in a boring, predictable, cliche, and completely *unfunny* movie (this one).

I can't even begin to say what I didn't like about this. The only joke I found funny was the Ike Turner quip near the end. Will Farrell was better in Bewitched, Vince Vaughan should stick to Jurassic Park-type roles, and Owen Wilson needs to partner up with Jackie Chan again before he does another movie with Vaughan.

The humor was hokey and tasteless. The movie highlighted how stupid, insensitive, and downright *dumb* men are. It was completely sexist and made women look foolish by falling for every STUPID line those guys came up with. Yeah... fucking... right. I wouldn't go near those guys with a ten-foot pole. Oh, and don't even get me started on the extremely offensive homosexual stereotyping.

Worst movie of the summer.

Grade: F

Joy

PS:

Audience Reaction: minimal; very few laughs; FAR less than Charlie, that's for sure

Yeah, suuuure

LOL, I know, I don't know what theatre they were at b/c when I saw it, the audience would laugh so hard that I would miss the next few lines of the movie b/c I coudln't hear over the laughter.

Yup. Same here.

I must say I'm really impressed that everyone is loving this. When I came out of THE DEVIL'S REJECTS today, I was waiting for my dad to pick my friend and I up and when CRASHERS let out, everyone was talking about how much they enjoyed it.

Well, you know, not all audiences are the same.

I'm being completely honest in what I say. Believe me, if the audience had been as into it as others seem to have, I would have said so and began riffing on my audience and wondering aloud what was wrong with them....

Joy

Great review Joy. You're well on your way to becoming a true fanatic. :wink:

In short, this film was the best comedy in years

I'm glad you added that wink, or I'd definitely have been offended. You know, just because I give a bad review for one movie, and a good one for another doesn't mean I do it out of bias. I really, truly hated Wedding Crashers. I knew I was going to from the first time I saw its trailer, far before I ever saw certain other movies.

I thought American Pie was far more hilarious. Heck, I thought even Old School was funnier.

That's just how I think. And apparently, I'm not the only one who didn't like this film, as I'm not the only one to have given it an F rating in the poll...

Joy

Giving an F to Wedding Crashers is BLASPHEMY!!!

No, it's called an opinion.

Joy

Wedding Crashers is great, but not quite the best comedy in years. Just a damn good one, that is one of my favorites of the year.

No, it's called blasphemy as I have clearly stated...

Seriously, no movie deserves and F if it is made professionaly

A- I actually really love this film Vince and Owen are a great team together. the movie was alround funny and light hearted

It was pretty funny. Saw it yesterday. I've been scanning this thread and there have been comments about the gay son. While I don't think it was all that offensive to include a gay character, I do think, as far as tone, it was mishandled. Why? Because Walken's senator seems otherwise to be good natured. He makes a huge speech at the end saying how he respects his daughters decisions and ultimately just wants them to be happy. He never liked who MacAddams character was dating, but said he put up with it because he thought it made her happy. So I don't see the difference between disliking a fiance and disliking a sexual orientation as long as his son is happy? It didn't quite match Walken's fairly sympathetic father figure. That and for a kid going to RISD, he painted for crap, and they made his skills a joke too. Basically the entire humour of the movie was much more good natured than his charater construction.

That being said, it didn't bother me too much, and Wedding Crashers was entirely good natured, fast paced, has a couple moments where I was really laughing out loud...and an cute/original premesis to begin with. Parts of it dragged a bit, and I ended up liking the Vaugn romance alot more than Owen's. Still, I'd give it a B. And wow, I was surprised at the sexual humour. It certainly is going to prove r-rated comedies have an audiance.

Alone in the Dark was *technically* a professionally-made film.

It gets a solid B+ from me. I was laughing-out-loud for most of it, but I thought (Like eveyone else it seems like) that it dragged towards the end. And the audience seemed to love it. About the gay son, I'll admit that I laughed almost everytime the camera panned to him, but it had nothing to do with him being gay; It was more of the fact that he was really weird. The supporting cast was fantastic, especially the grandma and the sister Gloria.

Not having read much of the thread, I thought that son was more played as being wierd and out of place than gay.

- His first scene at the wedding.
- His painting and yelling at the father during the football game.
- The last scene at the wedding

Etc.

In this comedy, I think the point was his overall wierdness and not just that he was gay.

Also if their intention was to play him up as majorly gay, they would have given him alot more gay stero-types.

Uwe Bowle... or however you spell his name... isn't a professional

A riot. I was completely enthralled throughout. All the funny parts were entertaining, and all of the more serious or romantic parts were engaging. The film was not the most laugh out loud funny I've seen, but it succeeded everywhere else. Great flow, a sense of real edge to it, nice plot buildup. Just a totally solid comedy. Immensely, immensely better than total crapfests like Dodgeball or Anchorman.

B

PEACE, Mike.

By far the funniest film of the year. The chemistry between the leads was perfect and there was no shortage of laughs. Definately a film that will hold up on repeat viewings, it is the comedy of the year (thus far).

A