Wednesday, September 26, 2007
What has happend to the usa - Wedding Crashers Reviews
Horrable! Why would you see a movie that?s about ruining people?s lives?! I?ts not funny!The acting was not that bad but what would you expect from Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn movie.According to the Los Angeles Times, director David Dobkin was contractually obligated by the studio to deliver a PG-13 rating for Wedding Crashers. That?s because R-rated comedies tend to crash at the box office. But an unfunny thing happened on the way to the ratings board. Test audiences for early, uncut versions of the film ranked the scenes containing the raunchiest material as their favorites. So New Line Studio decided to embrace the R rating.
Production president Toby Emmerich told Entertainment Weekly, ?There?s a way to wear an R as a badge of honor and say this is a little different, this takes things a little further. There is a positive spin to the R.?
Of course, the negative spin to the scenario is that test audiences didn?t find much to laugh at outside of the raunch. I can see why. The sometimes engaging Owen Wilson doesn?t really, struggling to keep pace with Vince Vaughn?s manic energy. The talented Christopher Walken, meant to draw laughs as the intimidating dad, is given nothing funny or threatening to do. Dr. Quinn?s Jane Seymour is just plain sad and creepy as the lushy, breast-exposing matriarch. And then there?s the unbelievable ?love story.? How foolish is Rachel McAdam?s character to stick with her acidic, unfaithful boyfriend for so long only to replace him with a confessed career liar and womanizer?
So what do you do with a lousy PG-13 comedy? Load it up with sex and nudity and f-bombs, and hype the R-rated sleaze. After all, the logic goes, if it doesn't fly at the box office, you can always make up the cash in DVD sales. As Dobkin told EW, ?You can?t make movies for the ratings system. You?ve got to make the movie that?s right for the story and let the rest fall into place.?
What falls into place is an ugly, soulless, unfunny film about a couple of guys in their mid-30s who only give up mistreating women for sex when they happen to fall for a couple of gals unbalanced or dumb enough to fall for them, too. Good times. Guys will think some is funney girls will hate it!
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