I happen to know everything there is to know about maple syrup! I love maple syrup. I love maple syrup on pancakes. I love it on pizza. And I take maple syrup and put a little bit in my hair when I've had a rough week. What do you think holds it up, slick?

Wedding Crashers is a funny movie. Of course, I think Vince Vaugn is funny just about all the time. But still, the movie is funny. But it's not a great movie.

Vaugn and Wilson are funny guys. They play well off eachother and do a great job here. The problem is in who surrounds them. Outside of those two and thier two female love interests all the characters are two dimensional charicatures. The other guy, the dad, the brother, the grandmother - none of them even resemble real people.

Here's the problem with that: Jokes involving characters like that can only be bit jokes, like a Saturday Night Live skit. The jokes are fine, they're sometimes funny. But they're never really, uproariously funny - because for a joke to reach that level it has to have some reality in it, some human connection.

Great comedies have real characters and real jokes like that. This movie has some of those. About half the time it's a great comedy, the other half the time it's hit and miss (with a lot of misses.) I laughed, I had a great time, I might even buy it when it comes out on DVD. But the changing of gears kept it from being a great movie.

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