The Wedding Crashers

Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn spend their lives picking up bridesmaids at weddings.

Herald rating: ***

Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are buddies who have worked out that there's nothing like a wedding to get women feeling romantic. So they crash weddings to pick up bridesmaids, available girls, unavailable girls, even the occasional straying wife.

After one such encounter with a bridesmaid, John (Wilson) accepts an invitation to a weekend wedding bash at her dad's place. Dad is the US Treasury Secretary, William Cleary (Christopher Walken), and John is keen to prolong the relationship with one daughter, Claire (Rachel McAdams). Jeremy (Vaughn) is not quite so keen: he's trying to burn off Claire's nymphomaniac sister, Gloria (Isla Fisher).

Yes, you're on the money, it's another gross-out comedy, but this one is far funnier than many that have disgraced Hollywood over the past decade. That's chiefly down to the screen chemistry between Wilson and Vaughn, and some nicely timed slapstick - it covers up the obvious holes in the story and the digressions that don't lead anywhere.

Great cameos, too, from Will Ferrell and Ellen Albertini Dow, as the acidic grandmother. Walken looks somewhat out of place.

The DVD contains the Uncorked edition of the film alongside the slightly shorter version shown in the multiplexes. There are four deleted scenes, an infomercial for the movie's real-life wedding planner - the extravagantly named Lovelynn Van Der Horst.

Two features lay out the code for crashing, and it has two commentary tracks - the better one features Wilson and Vaughn vamping it, while director David Dobkin focuses on the technical side.

* DVD, Video rental today