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Wedding Crashers
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Even though Dodgeball got over the magic $100-million hurdle, Wedding Crashers is the first of the New Dude Cinema to actually interest anyone outside of the core audience. It's a damn date movie, for crying out loud. But this is ... the first of its genre to do more than go through the motions of a three-act story -- it has emotional arcs and real consequences. What's better, it hasn't lost any of the usual raucous dude-comedy energy to make that happen.
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Wedding Crashers is the latest installment in the new, over-the-top comedies cut from the same cloth as Old School or Meet The Parents. It will take it's rightful place in history along side these great comedies as it deserves.
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The "Uncorked" edition of Wedding Crashers adds about 8 minutes of footage to the theatrical release. Of chief interest are extended beach and bathroom scenes between Vince Vaughn and Isla Fisher, and Vaughn's extended confession to Father O'Neil (Henry Gibson), but there are ... new scenes featuring Keir O'Donnell as the eccentric Todd and Ellen Albertini Dow as the potty-mouthed grandmother. This edition is billed as unrated because it wasn't resubmitted to the MPAA, but the sexier bathroom scene and coarser confession aren't particularly raunchier than the original film, and there's no additional nudity. You can watch the Uncorked edition once to see the new footage, but for subsequent viewings you'll probably choose to stick with the theatrical release, which is also included on the DVD.
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The outrageous comedy Wedding Crashers stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as divorce mediators and lifelong friends who have never met a wedding they couldn’t get themselves into. Guided by a secret set of wedding crashing “rules,” the pair find their way into a different wedding and different bridesmaid’s heart every week. But when they crash the social event of the season, one of them falls for the engaged daughter (Rachel McAdams) of an influential and eccentric politician (Christopher Walken) and decides to break the “rules” in pursuit of her. This leads to a wild weekend at her family’s palatial estate where the ultimate “Crashers” quickly find themselves in way over their heads. Wedding Crashers is directed by David Dobkin (Shanghai Knights) and scheduled for a July 15 release.
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As a rare exception, Wedding Crashers isn't just a film that's doing well in this brutal summer season -- it's thriving, building momentum as it goes. Granted, like any major release, it's made less money with each subsequent week. But in this industry, success is measured by how small your weekly decrease is and how high your theater-per-screen average is. And on these two fronts, Wedding Crashers has been a huge win for everyone involved, not to mention an opportunity for every bitter industry columnist to use the movie as his case study to explain what's wrong with the rest of the business.
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The plot mechanics of "Wedding Crashers" aren't particularly important. What is significant is the way Dobkin and the screenwriters treat their characters. Only squares would want to see John and Jeremy undergo any sort of phony transformation (and, admittedly, the ending of "Wedding Crashers" flirts dangerously close to that). But while the movie revels in John and Jeremy's outlandish behavior, it ... recognizes that they're rapidly nearing the age when it will no longer be considered cute.
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