Wedding Crashers: Uncorked Edition (2005)
New Line Home Entertainment

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The laughs flow like free booze at an open bar in this refreshingly raunchy hit comedy. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are D.C. divorce mediators whose detachment serves them well when they crash weddings to bed willing bridesmaids swooning on a romantic high. Under comical aliases, John (Wilson) and Jeremy (Vaughn) schmooze with strangers and set their time-tested traps for easy prey until they attempt the "Kentucky Derby" of crashes: the wedding of the daughter of Treasury Secretary William Cleary (Christopher Walken).

Their plan backfires when they're coerced into spending a weekend at the Cleary's country retreat and John falls for cute maid of honor Claire Cleary (Rachel McAdams). Each increasingly odd situation provides Wilson and Vaughn more fuel for their hilarious back-and-forth banter. Vaughn serves up the kind of quality one-liners ("The proper girl in the hat just eye-fucked me.") that made him so money in Swingers, and Wilson plays the romantic lead without getting sappy. Explicit without being gross, Wedding Crashers is an enjoyable and raucous summer comedy, one that every college kid will be quoting from for years to come.

This "longer, wilder, funnier" Uncorked edition includes the original theatrical release and an unrated version that's nine minutes longer, although it's hard to tell precisely what's new from the theatrical version since it's already chockfull of topless bridesmaids. A pair of featurettes includes "The Rules," in which Vaughn and Wilson randomly touch on the malleable rules of wedding crashing, from number 40 ("Invitations are for losers") to number 43A ("Dance with the flower girl") and number 43B ("Dance with old folks"). If the rules don't fit (e.g "Make sure she's single"), revise the rules ("Make her single"). In case you're serious about wedding crashing, there are also 24 clickable pages that spell out the rules for you. Four deleted scenes include a hilarious two-and-a-half-minute karaoke interlude with the drunk dudes crooning "99 Red Balloons" at a Korean wedding. Bonus DVD-Rom features include a script-to-screen comparison.

by Patrick Sisson