- Hey, listen. What angle are you going to play here?
- I am going to go with the balloon animal display. For the kids. And then when she comes near, guess who is the broken man, haunted past? How about you?
- I am going to go dance with the little flower girl. Oh, and I might be a charter member of Oprah's book club.
- It's all deadly.

The Wedding Crashers is a flawed, but hilarious comedy. I don't think it's for everyone (I'm looking at you Stephanie) but I had a great time. I think that mostly has to do with Vince Vaughn. This movie just winds him up and lets him go - and since he's my favorite comedic actor, that's all I really need.

But I mentioned flaws. There are four characters in this movie. The two guys played by Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson and the two women who are their romantic interests. After that there are lots of people in the movie, but they're all two dimentional charicatures. The problem with that is they can only be effectively involved in bit jokes. This means all the stuff that isn't between the four main characters just falls flat. So the comedy ends up being kind of stop and go, which keeps it from being a great comedy.

I had a great time. To the point where when I was reading quotes from the movie trying to remember some of them I just kept chuckling. Made me want to go see the movie again.

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