Movie Review: The Wedding Crashers
This movie has generated a lot of hype, and a smattering of positive reviews. My question is, "How?". Here's the premise: the instition of marriage gets liberally pissed on for 1.75hrs, and the movie ends in a wedding.
We're given a loose story, looped carelessly around the actors. Or maybe you have the actors stringing up a loose plot. Either way, the improvised dialogue of the movie should have been cut in half, and the freed frames should have been used to tell a better story. When the actual wedding crashing fun of the movie ends early in a single montage, a feeling of doom descends.
Ask yourself, could any movie coming from Hollywood portray a man raping and sexually molesting a woman, and call it funny? So how is it funny if the genders are reversed? Unfortunately, as this movie amply demonstrates, feminism hasn't resulted in less objectification of women, it's simply enforced equal objectification for men.
I think that's ulimately the problem with this flick. Everything about the human condition is trivialised, from sex to suicide. It's not a Monty Python-esque caricature of articifial institutions and affected idiosyncrasies, which I could have appreciated. Instead it tries to be sincerely romantic one moment, and comically slapstick the next. Needless to say, it fails on both counts. For more hope and less degradation, go rent Spun.
We're given a loose story, looped carelessly around the actors. Or maybe you have the actors stringing up a loose plot. Either way, the improvised dialogue of the movie should have been cut in half, and the freed frames should have been used to tell a better story. When the actual wedding crashing fun of the movie ends early in a single montage, a feeling of doom descends.
Ask yourself, could any movie coming from Hollywood portray a man raping and sexually molesting a woman, and call it funny? So how is it funny if the genders are reversed? Unfortunately, as this movie amply demonstrates, feminism hasn't resulted in less objectification of women, it's simply enforced equal objectification for men.
I think that's ulimately the problem with this flick. Everything about the human condition is trivialised, from sex to suicide. It's not a Monty Python-esque caricature of articifial institutions and affected idiosyncrasies, which I could have appreciated. Instead it tries to be sincerely romantic one moment, and comically slapstick the next. Needless to say, it fails on both counts. For more hope and less degradation, go rent Spun.
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