Ticket Stubs #4: An R-Rated Wedding

It would seem Ticket Stubs has taken on a theme of sorts. I kicked things off with Crash, which shared a star with Hustle & Flow. I mentioned Mary Jane (marijuana) in that review, which led me to Spider-Man, wherein I commented on the choice of Thomas Haydn Church (I researched it, and THC is a chemical found in marijuana--see Mary Jane reference above) to play the Sandman in Spider-Man 3. Church also stars in Sideways, in which he and Paul Giamatti embark on a depressing road trip to Church's wedding, and now things have come full circle with a review of Wedding Crashers.


FROM September 15, 2005 (SW@ Ticket #44: One SW@ Summer) In Wedding Crashers, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are divorce mediators who crash weddings to choose the hottest bridesmaids to have wild, DNA-spreading, one-night-stand sex with. Turning in the direction of many crime capers, the two schmucks go for "one last job" before they retire.
Christopher Walken, the go-to guy for playing crazy, overprotective fathers (when DeNiro can't be found), is a politician. Rachel McAdams (Red Eye) is the nice daughter who laughs during Walken's wedding vows, targeted by Wilson first as his wham-bam-say thankya, ma'am, then as a potential wife. Vaughn gets stuck with the naughty girl (the McAdams character's sister, played with kinky glee by Isla Fisher) who thinks Vaughn is her soul-mate. Jane Seymour is the resident MILF in pursuit of an unwilling Wilson, and Will Ferrell has a partially unnecessary role as Vince and Owen's crashing mentor, who has pathetically traded wedding whoopee for the easy funeral fuck.
Despite Will Ferrell in all his overblown (sex pun half-intended) glory, Wedding Crashers was well-done. Plenty of good American Pie-style humor without the inadvertent consumption of shit and pubic hair, or a creamed apple pie. Finch-Fuckers rejoice!
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Summer's not over yet, and I have yet to exhaust my supply of Ticket Stubs, so next time, I will continue my look back at the very SW@ summer of 2005, and a re-issue of my Red Eye review is on the way. Stay Tuned and keep saving those Stubs!

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