‘Wedding Crashers’ Is Back (And Wokesters Will Be Furious)
Raucous 2005 comedy captured R-rated Hollywood at its very best
Type “Wedding Crashers Problematic” into Google and you’ll be flooded with responses.
- Toxic!
- Sexist!
- Awful!
- Inappropriate!
- White!
And yet it made a shocking $209 million in U.S. theaters. Weird. It’s almost as if the people had spoken and the scolds were in the distint minority.
Yes, the woke mind virus has trashed some of the best comedies of the modern era, and “Wedding Crashers” fit right into that fun-free ethos.
The comedy cast Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as best buds who invade weddings unannounced, drink to their hearts’ content and, on ocassion, woo some bridesmaids along the way. They were scoundrels, of course, and the film shows the limits to their selfish schemes.
The killer cast included Christopher Walken, Isla Fisher and a caffeinated Bradley Cooper (the latter before his “Hangover” breakthrough).
Now, Fathom Entertainment is bringing “Wedding Crashers” back to theaters on Dec. 4 and 11. The revival, part of the film’s 20th anniversary, will feature 10 minutes of footage trimmed from its theatrical release.
Why did the woke scolds skewer the beloved film? Some examples:
The Cleary family employs a butler, the only Black character in the whole movie, who exists just to tell the white characters where the other white characters are, so, trope number one. The youngest Cleary is Todd, a mentally unstable artist who is also gay and, thanks to his repressed upbringing (I guess), a predatory freak. The wife of Secretary Cleary, played by Jane Seymour, is an aggressive cougar who exposes herself to John on his first night at the house. The grandmother is homophobic toward her own grandson and, weirdly, former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt…all of it is played for laughs and all of it comes across as brutally hack today.
This YouTuber dedicated a whole video to the problematic film.
Now, it’s back. And, chances are, it’ll make more money than some 2025 releases.
Why? Great comedy never goes out of style. “Wedding Crashers” also didn’t play by the rules, something Hollywood has learned the hard way. Bad boys are funny. Period.
They’re not role models. Nor should they be.
The bigger takeaway is obvious. Hollywood should get back into the R-rated comedy business. Why? It’s profitable.
Quick, what recent comedy has made anywhere near $209 million domestically?
UPDATE: The relentlessly woke Cracked.com has the sads that a new generation will watch Wedding Crashers on the big screen.
For some reason, tons of comedy writers in the aughts were obsessed with the hilarious set-up of a woman sexually abusing a man, but Wedding Crashers stands out as arguably the most egregious instance of a sex crime being played for laughs from that decade. And, sure, defenders of Wedding Crashers will say that rape jokes, along with the uncomfortable homophobic plot line regarding Gloria’s brother Todd, were simply a product of the time period, but that’s kind of my point: There are some comedies that we can leave behind in their era.
Finally saw this for the first time; you can see why Fisher and McAdams and to a lesser extent Cooper have had such terrific careers since. Wilson and especially Vaughn were both hilarious and Jane Seymour was a real surprise. I didn’t even mind Will Ferrell’s cameo (a nice guy by all accounts, but I’ve always been turned off by a certain smugness in his performances).
And oh yeah, Cracked was a lot funnier when it was a Mad magazine rip-off for little kids instead of a website for adults with the mentality of little kids.
I grew up on Mad, Cracked and Crazy … good times. Cracked should be ashamed of itself.
This movie is 20 years old??!! Man time has flied. I may just hit a movie theater when it is re-released. There is still hope for cinema.