Crashers delivers well-balanced comedy

From David Dobkin, director of Shanghai Knights and Clay Pigeons,

comes a heart-warming tale of two guys out to get laid. Wedding

Crashers follows childhood friends John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and

Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) as they masterfully sneak into weddings and

sneak out with the pick of the litter.

Irish, Italian, Jewish or Hindu makes no difference; the duo can succeed in any atmosphere with the help of the coveted rules of wedding crashing, clever back

stories and, of course, enough ingenuity to instantly become the life of the party.

Following the greatest wedding season of their lives, the team makes the boldest crash of their career by arriving at the wedding of the daughter of powerhouse politician Treasury Secretary William Cleary (Christopher Walken) and set sights on his two available daughters.

While Jeremy sticks to the typical get-in-get-out routine with daughter Gloria Cleary (Isla Fisher), John breaks the fundamental rule of wedding crashing by accepting an invitation for the weekend to the Cleary summer house in hopes of going into overtime and stealing away Claire Cleary from her arrogant boyfriend Sack (Bradley Cooper).

This leads to the heart of the movie which focuses in on a

unique blend of situational humor based on the dysfunctional happenings at the Cleary household and bizarre relationships that are formed.

As the latest release featuring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, this star-studded movie clearly had the makings of either a summer hit or a notorious disaster.

Though the latter seems to lurk around the corner as the movie opens to a scene of quick-talking, cliché shock humor, it quickly evolves into a well-developed social satire, balanced with a plethora of witty one-liners.

Improbable as it seems, this group of actors seem to have the formula down for making consistently good comedies, and Wedding Crashers is no exception. The movie offers a variety of humor for a diverse audience, and though it is sometimes frustrating to be in a theater sitting with people laughing at parts of a movie that you personally may not find amusing, this will more than likely go away not long after the first ten minutes of the movie.

If you enjoyed movies such as Starsky and Hutch, Dodgeball and Meet the Parents, then Wedding Crashers should not be a disappointment in the least and will more than likely leave

you quoting the movie for days.