Midweek Mention... Wedding Crashers

Wedding Crashers

Dan: Wedding crashes. Yeah. You ever seen this before? Before? And this

Sidey: I saw this at the Multiplex.

Dan: Multiplex, yeah. Vince Vaughn. Owen Wilson. Got a good combo. Those two, like him seemed to have

Sidey: they're a bit like Sandler and Barrymore.

They've done a few together.

Dan: Yeah. But these are funny.

Sidey: Take it back.

Dan: Okay. So this is based on these two young studs who like to go crashing weddings to pick up the girls.

Reegs: Yeah, their whole shtick is that they've got these like principles and rules that allow them to flag them their way into

Dan: Rule number 71, you can't do this. Rule number 74, you should always do

Reegs: They always say that they're there because they've Uncle Ned is it,

Dan: Yeah. They've got inns.

Aunt

Reegs: Linda and they've got cover stories that they provide for each other. That bit isn't, I mean, we get introduced to them first in a sort of divorce mediation process.

That's [00:01:00] what they do. They're divorce

Dan: mediation. Yeah. And they, they kind of win this couple over by talking about the wedding and they're really not getting on well, this, this couple, they're arguing over air miles. They're arguing over, he ran off with some bimbo and. She was not sexually adventurous and Oh,

Reegs: All the grievances are being

Dan: Yeah, exactly. And they said you must have gotten, enjoyed some of it, the wedding.

Sidey: It's Rebecca Derna, isn't it? Yeah. One. Yeah.

Dan: And she's eventually won over by their.

Banter in

Reegs: they sort of um, get, remind them of the once romance that they had in their lives and you know, that they were once happy enough to have a wedding and all that.

And their conciliatory, I think they end up both of them offering the air miles to each other, which had been the center point of the discussion. And so we see these kinda guys and then we're introduced to this whole shtick that they have. And the movie is kind of smart enough to realize that you've only got [00:02:00] about five minutes of content of this 'cause they.

Kind of give you a big montage of them going to different weddings, tying out their different personalities and shtick.

Dan: it's wedding season, isn't it? Is they come in and Owen

Sidey: Because that bit, there's a boob montage, isn't

Reegs: There's a what?

Dan: there is

Sidey: montage as we see them at the various different weddings and it culminates that they always, obviously the target is there's gonna be a single

Dan: bridesmaid

Sidey: and then we see them all constantly, all these women get thrown onto the bed and then they're gonna have their way with

Dan: and you do have a little bit of a boob montage and. Owen Wilson at this point isn't really into it, but Vince Vaughn is saying, come on, you can't let me down. This is, this is going for it. Let's do it. And he gets won over and they go to a load of weddings. We get the boob montage.

Reegs: So he's regretful for being a lying womanizer, but so you know that you're supposed to root for him as opposed to the Vince Foreman who's not regretful

Dan: being

No, he, he's

Sidey: he's all in.

Dan: he, he's all in and he's.

He's just seeing opportunity. He's been taught by one of the best in the [00:03:00] business and we'll meet him towards the end of the film. But what we see as we get into it is that there's a big wedding. There's a huge one. It's, it's like the Secretary of State is

Reegs: of the Treasury and it turns out to be Christopher Wakin.

It's his, yeah.

Dan: And his daughter is getting married. And so. They sneak into this and they've got various disguises. If they I mean at one point they go to an Asian wedding, don't they? And they're, they're seen as aunt, I dunno,

Reegs: I think it's always Uncle Ned and Aunt Linda or something,

Dan: Linda. That's it.

Yeah.

Reegs: and there's various, you know, oh, she sends her regards, she's dead or whatever, you know, like Oh yeah, no, from beyond and all that.

Dan: Yeah. They've got answers and they've got various get outs, but then they both seem to fall in love almost at first sight, the way they both get taken, don't they? By these [00:04:00] girls.

Sidey: It's

it's Owen Wilson first. He becomes infatuated. Rachel McAdams,

Reegs: Yeah, he does. But also the sister Gloria Isla Fisher is this just like

complete crazy psycho

girl.

Dan: which turns out. The girl for Vince Vaughn. And she plays it on the beach after they've done it. He zip he's sort of button up his shirt and he says, we better get back out to the wedding.

He, you can see he's kind of had enough of her and she says, oh, I can't believe my first time was like that. And he's like, what? And then after that she just behaves like a, a young child to him and she's like hugging him and, oh, I can't believe it. She wants to go everywhere with him. She insists that they go to the after party with Christopher Kin.

Yeah.

And she stamps her feet until he agrees. And. Vince Vaughn is like, look, we've got a a [00:05:00] grade five hanger on here. Yeah. We need to get the fuck outta town. And, but Owen Wilson is infatuated as you

Sidey: like, this is perfect. We go, go back. I can work

Reegs: I can carry on working to, on her.

Dan: And, and that's what they do.

Reegs: though, does he know at this point that she's engaged?

Dan: Yes. They've, they've had a a meeting with Bradley Cooper. Yeah. Who is, Hey there fella.

Reegs: He's so good in

Dan: yeah, he's, he's.

Rachel McAdam's fiance, and he's just a, a preppy kind of asshole guy,

Sidey: he?

He's like really aggressive

type. This is

the first time I'd seen Bradley Cooper in a movie. I think. I think this came out, but did this come out before hangover? Exactly.

Dan: did, but I'd never noticed

Sidey: is what I assume he's like in real life

Reegs: Yeah,

yeah. Like,

yeah,

he's a real aggressive pedantic full of himself.

Sidey: He really, he really sucks up to the old man because he's got status and he I think they're, he's from a sort of well to-do family as well.

Yeah. And Uniting

Reegs: it's like a [00:06:00] uniting

Sidey: Wilkin likes the idea of these two families coming

Reegs: That's right. Yeah.

Sidey: the locks and the lodges or something like that. I can't remember

Reegs: it. Yeah.

Dan: But they, they head off to the, the house. And they have Owen Wilson. Yeah. Owen Wilson. Slowly, slowly starts winning.

Rachel Mc Adams over, doesn't he? Yeah. What's her name in the film?

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: So he starts winning Rach over and,

Reegs: they have this amazing game of American football. Yeah. Touch football. It's obviously like a family tradition,

cla.

Sidey: Bear. That's

Reegs: CLA Bear

Claire And sack is Bradley Cooper's character and he's like really aggressive in this game.

Like, Vince Vaughn's a big guy, like he's gotta be six four or something, I would

Dan: 6

4, 2 50.

Reegs: And he gets absolutely taken out like a number of times. Like he's, they're, they're telling him off for overdoing it and he's like, got a cracked rib on the floor. Later.

Sidey: well, you got Jane Seymour in this, his Wilkins,

Reegs: Smoking, hot

Sidey: pot's [00:07:00] looking unbelievable, and she's like throwing a span in the works by being like kind of slutty.

She's, she's doing a Mrs.

Reegs: had a boob job. Yeah. And she decides to show Owen Wilson to it during the most awkward dinner party, which also involves Vince

Sidey: getting wacked off

Reegs: Wanked off reluctantly under the table by the psycho.

Gloria,

Dan: this, this point remind me of a friend of Janna who went Czech Republic and,

Reegs: she wented you off onto the

Dan: No, but she had a tit job.

Reegs: All right.

Dan: And they were talking about as girls do and did then, then she made me, like, both of them made me feel her tits And I was like,

Reegs: I bet you've thought about that a few times.

Dan: Oh, keep your numbers up. But I had to, I had to feel CERs tits just to like,

Sidey: had

a similar experience actually.

Reegs: What were they like? I've never felt surgically enhanced breasts,

Dan: I must say. It was. Pretty fucking good. Like you couldn't,

Reegs: you couldn't tell?

Dan: I couldn't tell. I mean, I don't feel enough press to be able to

Sidey: you could definitely

Dan: challenge

Sidey: can definitely [00:08:00] tell.

But there are, there are good boob jobs and bad boob

jobs,

Dan: Well, this was good boo job. Like, I, I don't think I could tell. I was just so excited. I

Sidey: couldn't tell.

Reegs: Would you get one?

Sidey: Yeah, I would get a reduction if anything. It is this like famous line that cropped up from this. It was the motor boating, but it wasn't it that everyone would say this

Dan: mobo motherfucker.

Yeah,

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: it's classic.

Reegs: So at this dinner party, I think Vince Vaughn spikes, they've got these eyedrops which somehow have laxative powers to them or something, and he puts eyedrops in sacks drinks. So he goes off and shits himself horribly in the bathroom. Which is when he suddenly comes up with the idea.

Hang on a minute, we dunno who these fucks are. And like, sends one of his lackeys off to investigate.

Dan: That's right. He's got a mate who's got a mate who can investigate who the fuck they really are and they realize. They're not who they say they are because

Reegs: Because they're there under false pretenses.

Dan: And grandma comes out with a shotgun and starts firing off.

And Christopher, welcome,

Reegs: well, you have [00:09:00] missed, I think the bit where Gloria at night essentially rapes Vince Waugh, like to bondages him up real nice and then fucks him.

Sidey: Oh. 'cause there's also the brother, there's the weird

Reegs: and then the, yeah, the brother who's a homosexual. This is a really homophobic like plot line because he comes in and sort of is very sexually aggressive towards Vince Vaughn

Sidey: and, and sort of hated by his family for being. Homosexual, I think.

Reegs: And he's painted this big picture of him like just behind a fig leaf. Yeah. Yeah. That later Walen will walk in and see Vince Vaughn tied on his bed kind of with a hard on looking at the picture of himself on the wall. It very much reminded me of you with the mirror

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: That's

Sidey: another

Dan: story. Come on. It's not for here and now.

But he, he does make a brilliant line as he gets found out and they walk away. And

the, the brother says, I'm taking my picture back

Reegs: in. He goes,

Dan: no, that was a gift and I'm taking it. And you can see that he really likes

Reegs: he's really pleased. Yeah. So, well, because there's a whole thing about his family not taking him serious as an [00:10:00] artist and he like felt seen.

Dan: Yeah.

Reegs: Brilliant. And there is also a bit just before that as well, where they go on this hunting trip. I watched this bit three times to try and work out what happened. Because Sack turns up on the hunting trip, doesn't

Sidey: He's super aggressive here. 'cause they're like, do we really need to go and kill stuff? And he's, he tried to makes the point that the thing that we're gonna hunt is decimating the population of. Blah. Yeah. But he screams it like super aggressively of Vince Warn, doesn't he? And he is like, I'm cyclist. Go and kill some birds.

Reegs: Yeah. Yeah. And then, then it does look to be like the plot is, he attempts to kill. Oh, in Wilson.

'cause he takes it shot him Or does he hit him mean, anyway, somebody, Vince Warren ends up getting shot in the ass basically, doesn't

Sidey: it? Yeah.

Dan: Which, which reminded me

Reegs: Dick Cheney.

Dan: Dick Cheney and met him needing to apologize to Dick Cheney for getting in the way of his shot. Yeah. He was like, fuck it.

Reegs: yeah.

Anyway the, it's a bit of a disaster. The hunting trip. Don't Owen Wilson and Rachel Mc out, I dunno. I was so [00:11:00] bored by their love story. And their complete lack

Sidey: they do a bit of like bicycle Yeah. Thing, which I think was supposed to be like, push Cassidy, you know, they're riding the bike and a bit. It is a bit of a fail. Yeah.

Reegs: Well they do end up having a little kiss, don't they?

Sidey: don't they? Owen Wilson just seems sort of weirdly sexless to me.

Reegs: agreed.

Sidey: Absolutely. It doesn't seem. I don't like the guy and he is funny. And there's loads of movies that I've seen that I really like and I, I like this movie too, but it doesn't seem like a great romantic

Reegs: companion.

No, but who does seem like a good romantic companion is finally, Gloria starts to tell the truth. I think to Vince Vaughn, she's like, oh, I wasn't a virgin. Of course I wasn't. When

Dan: oh, she's just a psycho as he is for crashing all these weddings. And

Reegs: And that's what he realized. Like, hang on a minute. She's like, we are perfect together.

Yeah.

Dan: Well, he has, he has a confession with the priest, doesn't he? And he, he. Gives him a massive, like slug of Jameson's and high. Then he, yeah, a massive highball. And then he is just talking through him and he's saying she's, and the, the priest isn't saying anything, but he's just [00:12:00] doing all the talking and answering his own questions and.

That's what kind of kicks off the, the grandma coming out with the gun and everything. But is of Fisher has just sort of giving him hot signals and saying, I love you. I love you.

Sidey: because they'd kind of set it up. I thought that Owen Wilson was the one who was gonna be the one who would fold because and we're just gonna settle down first. But actually it's Vince Vaughn is the one who gets out the game.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: that's it,

Reegs: because that's what we see because we see a few months later they've walked off down the road in their suits after they've been kicked out, haven't they?

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: we see them a few months

Dan: later and both of them haven't.

Reegs: on the phone.

Dan: Both of them haven't given up on their girls except Vince Vaughn is actually seeing Isla Fisher on the sly. And he's not able to see Claire Bear because she's one with Bradley Cooper. Even though she's not happy, but he has been really just ostracized from that whole kind of family and group that he can't get close.

He, he dresses up at one point as a waiter [00:13:00] and he needs Vince Vaughn to come along and back him up. But he gets busted. By Bradley Cooper and then beaten up by a load of his mates. And that's when he goes back to the apartment and sees him with Gloria.

Reegs: with They're having sex, I

think,

Dan: I think, and they look like they're about to or just have had.

They're in the throes of passion and they have a big kind of bro, bro breakup, don't they? They're like asshole, cunt, asshole. They don't say cunt, but,

Reegs: the end of their friendship.

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: It seemed like their friendship was you know, largely fostered around this sort of awful,

Reegs: Yeah. Lying, womanizing kind

Sidey: one stops doing that, it's gonna fall

Dan: which seemed to be Vince Vaughn's idea.

And now he's gone in too deep. He can't pull out, he keeps going to weddings, but they're getting more and more outrageous. He's fucking up. He's taking the,

Reegs: he takes over doesn't he tells like really depressing speeches and

Dan: Yeah. He's saying to

Reegs: starts ruining weddings and

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: starts ruining weddings and drawing attention to himself and getting thrown out

[00:14:00] getting and,

then he finally goes to see

Chaz.

Chaz Chaison

Reegs: Chaz Reinhold.

Dan: Who is the, the guru of all this? The innovator. It's Will Farrell,

Reegs: Ferrell. Yeah.

Dan: And is a brilliant scene as he, as he comes in, he's still living with his mom

Sidey: Yeah. So he's, he's been sort of painted as this deity of, you know, getting girls, but he is just some fucking loser that

lives with his

Reegs: in his mom's basement sort of

Sidey: at his mom, like, get me some food and stuff.

Yeah. But he's transitioned now. He is. Found a new gig.

Dan: Well, is he? As he is just about to pull out and he'd go, mom me loaf. And he's going, I, I look, I, I can't stay actually this absolutely smoking hot babe comes down the stairs, goes up to Chaz, gives him a massive kiss, and goes, ah.

And he's going, be strong. Be strong. And she goes, and he's just winking all the time. And he's saying.

Sidey: it's so

Dan: can't believe, no, I will have meatloaf. God, I can't believe you're still doing this. You're absolutely amazing. And he goes, yeah. Funerals. He goes, it's, it's the next stage. They just throw you. So it is like, [00:15:00] it's like fishing with dynamite is, it is just so easy.

Sidey: we do see him

Reegs: them at a funeral,

Sidey: Yeah. He's like really over the top crying and then like, doing that motion.

Dan: that's

1. He's just kind of winking and giving it

Sidey: a grind.

Dan: The grind. And then Owen Wilson looks over and he sees the, the kind of widow really upset and crying, and he just thinks, I, I can't be a part of too

Sidey: wonder if he'll have any success with Claire.

Dan: Yeah. Well, he, he's going to find out because he's gonna go and

Sidey: they're getting hooked. His love the wedding

Dan: at the wedding. It's the wedding day that same funeral day, I think. And he goes straight from that funeral to the

Reegs: It's the love that the woman expresses, isn't it, for her

husband At

the funeral that sort of reignites his fire. Yeah. And then sends him off to. Go and stop the wedding.

Dan: Well, he kind of goes in late and, he is gonna get thrown out. But then Vince Foy says, Hey,

Reegs: their wedding.

Dan: the [00:16:00] best. Yeah, he does, doesn't he? Yeah. And he goes, he's the best man. So he, he comes to the front and then he just starts having a, the conversation with his sister, who's the bridesmaid.

Also on the step, like two steps down from the married couple. look great. just wish of course everyone can hear and

Sidey: Notably Bradley Cooper.

Reegs: Yeah. and

Dan: he goes, what the fuck is this? And Vince Vaughn gives him a big left hook

Reegs: He's also been a bit aggressive towards Claire as well,

Dan: Yeah, a

Sidey: we have, haven't we found out, haven't we found out like a while ago that he has been cheating as well? He is been going out Horing. Oh yeah. A bachelor party. I think we've been putting it about, so we, you know, we don't like this guy and Vince Vaughn.

Fucking breaks his face. Yeah. With a, like, he just punches

Dan: and then he

Sidey: then he kiss into oblivion. Then

Dan: cla bear.

Sidey: it's a bit gradually, isn't it? They they go off in the, in the car?

Dan: off together. They all kiss and and then they go and crash. And weddings as a foursome. [00:17:00]

Sidey: presumably just for the food, I'd imagine.

Yeah.

Dan: it was, they said it was some was it an Asian wedding? There's gonna be great

Reegs: Fuck nos. I tuned out by this point.

Dan: yeah, it was right at the end. To be fair, this I remember really enjoying this first time watching and I think the motorboat motherfucker was the, the line that stuck into my head.

Sidey: same year as hitch this and the same sort of vibe that in the naughties, you probably thought this was.

Like super funny and

Reegs: I think Vince v and Gloria are pretty good though.

I do wonder what would've happened if those roles had been reversed and Gloria's, like Infomania Rapist had been a man, but, also like they just got no charisma at all. And yeah, even though she's great and I, I do like him as an actor, just not, this didn't work at all. And if I had to pick my like least favorite type of scene in any movie ever, it's in a romantic comedy, the big.

Romantic gesture at the end where somebody [00:18:00] interrupts something and then everybody stops behaving like real human beings as they let this guy just do 10 minutes of talking and nobody's pissed off and tells him to shut up.

Dan: Wait till Saturday.

Reegs: Yeah, and it, and this

Sidey: big,

Reegs: thing,

Sidey: this was, this was after sad unfortunately.

Reegs: It's so, and this one goes on for ages, like, and it's, I know, I know. It's so, they're so formulaic and, and the wedding singer was really formulaic, but because drew Barrymore and, and then they put the touches of Heart and Soul that makes it better. This one doesn't have any of that apart from, Vince Vaughn really.

And Gloria. Yeah,

Sidey: Yeah, I could watch Vince Vaughn do almost anything. I won't watch that fucking nonna thing that started on Netflix 'cause I'm just not interested.

Reegs: I'm part of by the name.

Sidey: Yeah, I, I don't like that. But mostly everything. I'll always love him 'cause of swingers. I still, like, I I, I could watch this again, but it's not, this isn't like top tier by any means,

Reegs: Mm.

Sidey: but.

Dan: It's, it's easy viewing for silly kind of,

Sidey: I mean,

will Frow comes into it for five minutes and totally steals the whole [00:19:00] movie.

Yeah,

Reegs: it's quite long was my thing, like considering there's, I was trying to remember what Wilkin said. He did have a few funny scenes as well, but it generally, the laughs are

Dan: they could have lost 15, 20 minutes out of this and maybe brought into Chris's realm of about an hour and a half. It might hit home a little bit more, but yeah,

Sidey: Is it an I do or an I don't.

Dan: I would say

Reegs: I did,

Dan: I did.

Sidey: So it's a strong

Reegs: Strong recommend.