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Avg. Critic Score: 64 out of 100 Generally favorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
16 Iffy for 16+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Funny, ungirdled romp - a buddy picture about buddies who actually know what women want. Read full review

  • 88
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Sometimes a movie comedy just clicks. Welcome to one of those times. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    Lung-bloatingly funny. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Carina Chocano

    Witty, unhinged and fearless, it's exactly the kind of movie we need now. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk 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

  • 63
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    A showcase for Vince Vaughn's rantings and Owen Wilson's standard but affable chum act. Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | Manohla 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
    Variety | Brian 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

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Peter 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

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger 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

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+ This raucous, boisterous comedy is not for kids.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that the movie features sexual humor, imagery (bared breasts), and language (including slang for gay and lesbian sex and repeated uses of the f-word). There is lying, drinking, smoking, and sex (couples appear in various states of undress, including a bondage scene). The film includes a reference to "rolling a fatty," some rough touch football (hard tackling by a very competitive player, whom someone jokingly describes as being "on steroids"), a bloody beating, vomiting, attempted seductions of one man by his girlfriend-to-be's mother, an attempted homosexual seduction, and a woman's masturbation of her lover under the dinner table.
  • Families can talk about the lessons learned by John and Jeremy. How do they come to realize that their self-centered gallivanting is immature? How does the movie set up a contrast between their deceitfulness and that of Sack, who cheats at touch football and on his fiancée?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Most characters lie, cheat, and abuse trust; some learn the error of their ways.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: Rough football and a beatdown, shot mostly in shadows.
  • sex false4 Sex: Exposed breasts, sexual situations (including bondage and masturbation).
  • language false5 Language: Frequent obscenities and sexual slang, rendered comedically.
  • consumerism false3 Consumerism: Visibly branded food and beverage products.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: At weddings, the crashers get drunk repeatedly; one reference to " a fatty."
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