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It is generally a lot harder to get me into the theater for a comedy than it is for an action movie. Only Will Ferrell is far enough inside the circle of trust to pretty much guarantee me spending 9 bucks at the local cinema to watch a flick without super special effects. Ben Stiller is close, but it's iffy. Mike Meyers was inside the circle at one point, but has since been banished. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson may have just earned their place inside the circle with "Wedding Crashers."

A laugh-a-minute comedy packed with inappropriate humor in situations that are relatable to real life, "Wedding Crashers" is on the "Old School" level of comic genius. Vince Vaughn is at his endearingly arrogent best, and Owen Wilson's wide-eyed and kind-hearted crazy schtick is in full effect. These guys are at the top of their game in "Wedding Crashers", firing one-liners back and forth with perfect delivery.

As a couple of upbeat, glass-is-half-full womanizers, Vaughn and Wilson make you feel good about their sleazy mission to crash weddings and score with loosened up chicks. The pair play a couple of lawyers who mediate divorce settlements by weekday, and become the life of the party at weddings of people they don't know by weekend. The hijinks are thrown off track when Wilson falls hard for one of his attempted conquests, and drags Vaughn into a slapstick-riddled wingman mission in an effort to catch his prey.

The concept is a winner because no one knows everyone at a wedding, and people will always assume that someone they don't recognize is just part of the "other" family or friend group. The requiste Will Ferrell cameo is even pulled of with memorable flair, as the original Wedding Crasher Chaz is an innovator who goes to places that are so filthy to line up his ladies that even Owen Wilson's character is creeped out by it (although he respects him as a "genius"). Ferrell is at his best in these type of quick, quirky cameo roles.

"Wedding Crashers" is a great time. It is one of those comedies that leaves you full with good spirits afterwards, generating enough laughs to make your belly sore. For every three or so near misses like "Dodgeball", "Anchorman", "Kicking & Screaming", "Along Came Polly" and "Meet The Fockers", the Ferrell/Vaughn/Wilson/Stiller set fires off a piece of genius like "Old School", "Starsky & Hutch" and a "Meet The Parents." That's why I keep going back to their movies, like a lab rat pressing that big red button over and over again waiting for my reward. With "Wedding Crashers", I got my Pavlovian fix.

5/5 Stars.