Wedding Crashers
New Line Cinema | Release Date: July 15, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
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Generally favorable reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
Positive:
23
Mixed:
15
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Funny, ungirdled romp - a buddy picture about buddies who actually know what women want. Read full review
88
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Sometimes a movie comedy just clicks. Welcome to one of those times. Read full review
88
New York PostKyle Smith
The flick brings two hours of great big sloppy buck-wild laughs by morphing into a cross between "Meet the Parents" and "Some Like It Hot." Read full review
80
Washington PostStephen Hunter
Lung-bloatingly funny. Read full review
80
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Wedding Crashers may be the most optimistic Hollywood comedy of the year, because it restores at least some dim hope that directors, writers and actors with actual brains in their heads can somehow triumph over unimaginative studio execs. In that way, Wedding Crashers isn't just the life of the party, but its pulse. Read full review
80
SlateDavid Edelstein
The script by Steve Faber and Bob Fisher is one of those high-speed, ping-pong-banter marvels in which you're still laughing from the last great line when you're hit by the next. Read full review
80
Film ThreatRick Kisonak
Not since the breakthrough days of Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler and the Farrelly brothers have two hours of movie comedy simultaneously felt so wrong but oh so right. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
Witty, unhinged and fearless, it's exactly the kind of movie we need now. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Head, shoulders, funny bone and brain above the competition. It's the best comedy I've seen this year.
80
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are enormously funny in this farce. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Hopelessly raunchy, helplessly romantic, and wickedly, wickedly funny. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Good, indecent fun starring two of the most amiable comedy actors around. Read full review
75
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Wedding Crashers is unashamedly profane and, for its first two acts, very funny, a classic guilty pleasure that revels in its basest elements. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Tom Cruise might have saved his family from apocalypse. But Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn have just saved our summer. Read full review
70
The New YorkerAnthony Lane
The first twenty minutes of Wedding Crashers are rabid with simple pleasure. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The two key roles are wonderfully cast with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn and the gross-but-not-too-gross humor will score with young moviegoers. But Wedding Crashers is still a letdown. The film never quite lives up to the promise of its premise. Read full review
70
TimeRichard Corliss
It parades a screen chemistry rarely seen since the original Butch and Sundance. Read full review
70
Dallas ObserverRobert Wilonsky
Here's a tip: When Vaughn and Wilson are outed as impostors and forced to leave Walken's estate, grab your stuff and walk out. You'll think you just saw a comedy masterpiece. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
Surprisingly flabby, with lazy writing and some final-act lurches into unironic rom-com that seem at odds with the bizarro premise. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
There's little doubt a person can get a little pent-up looking for a good romantic comedy -- but you might want to save yourself until something better comes along. Read full review
63
PremiereSara Brady
It’s an uneven outing from the Frat Pack, and an equally sad commentary on the state of American comedy: This run-on mess is the funniest film of the last six months. Read full review
63
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Watching Wedding Crashers is like stuffing yourself with raw cookie dough. It's a guilty pleasure that goes down easily, but you can't help wondering what it would've tasted like if someone had finished the job. Read full review
63
USA TodayMike Clark
A showcase for Vince Vaughn's rantings and Owen Wilson's standard but affable chum act. Read full review
60
VarietyBrian Lowry
Despite flashes of nudity, crudity and mockery of women's raging hormones at the first sight of a trousseau, at its core it's just a big pushover with the heart of a chick flick. Read full review
60
EmpireNick De Semlyen
Wedding Crashers doesn't quite live up to its promise, but through no fault of its off-the-wall cast. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
Most of the time Wedding Crashers is more genteel than it is outrageous (or funny), playing like an only slightly less benign spin on the tiresome fish-out-of-water farce that fueled the two Meet the Parents movies. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Reasonably enjoyable until its guys are forced to grow up. Because bad behavior is usually more fun to watch than good, the movie is especially fine during the preliminaries. Read full review
60
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Vaughn can motormouth like a machine gun, spraying men, women and children with manic, rat-a-tat outbursts of toxic insincerity. It's often dirty, yes. But it's also manic and inspired. Read full review
58
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
Each star has his moments, and the supporting cast is good, especially Walken, playing one of his less extreme characters; Jane Seymour as his promiscuous wife; and the stunning Rachel McAdams as their daughter and Wilson's love interest. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
In spite of its cast and seemingly can't-miss premise, Wedding Crashers is at its best a succession of mild chuckles. Read full review
50
Village VoiceJessica Winter
Amiable and hollow. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
After a promising beginning, this movie crashes and burns. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneAllison Benedikt
Walken is an odd choice for a D.C. power player, wasting his creepiness on this straight, respectable role. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
Explosively funny in spots -- this is easily Vaughn's best work since "Swingers" -- but it comes wrapped in a package so sweet and sugary, so tediously moral and conventional, it sabotages the laughs. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
There are a few good laughs, but not nearly enough clever ideas to keep things hopping for two hours. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineAngel Cohn
Delivers 90 minutes of riotously funny raunch; unfortunately, its running time is closer to two hours. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
You know all those horror stories about a cigar-chomping producer who screens a movie and says they need to lose 15 minutes and shoot a new ending? Wedding Crashers needed a producer like that. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
Unfortunately, the inspired concept is coupled with weak screenwriting, and the movie turns out to be much more fun to think about than it is to watch. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
A stiff drink or maybe some pharmaceutical assistance might have made me overlook the film's sour tone, or the unremarkableness of its direction. Read full review
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