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WEDDING CRASHERS

"AMERICAN PIE Meets A CHRISTMAS CAROL"

What You Need To Know:

WEDDING CRASHERS, a new R-rated comedy from Hollywood, is frequently hilarious, but often abhorrent. John and Jeremy are friends who fill their social calendar by showing up at strangers’ weddings. Partying isn’t their real motive though: they see weddings as a prime opportunity to seduce women. Armed with a dozen fictional personas, they feign sensitivity until the women come home with them. John loves this routine until he finds a girl who means more to him than a one-night fling. The tricky part is admitting that he was pretending to be someone else when they met.

Eventually, John discovers that an obsessive desire for sexual pleasure outside the boundaries of a normal, marital relationship isn’t fulfilling. That message, however, is too-little-too-late. The movie promotes ghastly behavior, including a totally debauched way of life in which men and women sleep together after knowing each other for mere minutes. John and Jeremy have dozens of sexual partners and never regret any of their choices. In addition to the movie's sexual permissiveness, there is excessive foul language, over-the-top sexual jokes and situations, and heavy alcohol use. Media-wise audiences will shun this one, no matter how funny it is.

Content:

(B, PaPa, Ho, LLL, V, SS, NN, AA, DD, MMM) Light moral worldview with light moral premise illustrated by men who turn from philanderers into committed husbands, with bed-hopping revealed as unfulfilling, and debauched pagan behavior and attitudes, as well as some homosexual content, such as teenaged boy propositions man; 64 obscenities, many of them strong, 11 profanities, man spikes drink so that his rival will get diarrhea, and some epithets for homosexually active people; slapstick violence includes man tackled during touch football game and shot during hunting trip; fornication implied several times, men have many sex partners, couple engages in sexual act at dinner table without family knowing, woman ties man to bedposts, married woman propositions man, teenaged boy propositions man, plus innuendo and sexual jokes; upper and rear female nudity, and upper male nudity; frequent alcohol use at parties; smoking, plus a drug reference; and, extreme objectification of women, extreme lying and manipulation, and divorce lawyers say negative things about the concept of marriage.

More Detail:

WEDDING CRASHERS, a new R-rated comedy from Hollywood, is frequently hilarious, but it has a disdain for Judeo-Christian sexual morality and a high foul language count.

John (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy (Vince Vaughn) are friends who fill their social calendar by showing up at strangers’ weddings and becoming the life of the party. They offer toasts, help cut the cake, and entertain the children. Partying isn’t their real motive though: they see weddings as a prime opportunity to meet women. Armed with a dozen fictional personas, they feign sensitivity until the women come home with them.

Jeremy and John love this routine until John finds a girl who means more to him than a one-night fling. Interestingly, she is the daughter of a rich government official played by Christopher Walken. The wedding crashers score an invitation to the family home, where John tries to get time with Claire (Rachel McAdams) and Jeremy tries to get away from Claire’s sister Gloria (Isla Fisher), who is obsessed with him. Once the sisters have fallen for Jeremy and John, however, there’s the little matter of revealing their true identities.

John discovers that an obsessive desire for sexual pleasure outside the boundaries of a normal, marital relationship isn’t fulfilling. He meets the original wedding crasher, Chaz, who is now in his 40s and still lives in his mom’s basement. Chaz is totally pathetic, without any concern for other people at all, and John sees that he must change his own ways if he wants to avoid this fate. Think of this subplot as A CHRISTMAS CAROL meets AMERICAN PIE.

Even with John’s solid realization, that leads to what we assume will be a marriage to Claire, the movie promotes ghastly behavior, including a totally debauched way of life in which men and women sleep together after knowing each other for mere minutes. John and Jeremy don’t regret sleeping with all of those women (to whom they lied and manipulated). They merely see commitment and monogamy as the next phase, albeit a better one.

In addition to the sexual permissiveness, the movie has excessive foul language, over-the-top sexual jokes and situations, and heavy alcohol use.

WEDDING CRASHERS is a sweet-and-sour plate. In addition to all the objectionable elements, it’s actually very funny. Media-wise audiences must use discernment when they go to the movie theater, remembering that the ticket they buy guarantees that more of the same movies will be made. Thus, audiences concerned about the state of teenaged and young adult sexuality in America should shun entertainment that promotes these gross, unnatural mores.

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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.