"You, Me and Dupree" Will Make You Laugh from Start to Finish

I'm about to make some enemies here when I say that I'm not much of an Owen Wilson fan. I'm not sure why that is because I love Ben Stiller and I am a big fan of Luke Wilson. Perhaps it is just that I had not seen the definitive Owen Wilson movie, until now.

I almost declined to see "You, Me and Dupree" based partly on the fact that Owen Wilson was one of the leads and partly because I find a lot of today's comedies just a little too sophomoric. However, I'm a huge Kate Hudson fan and I have always enjoyed Matt Dillon. So, I figured: What have I got to lose? I did lose something. I lost a lot of pent up tension because I haven't laughed that hard in a very long time.

The movie begins just as Carl Peterson (Matt Dillon) and Molly Thompson (Date Hudson) are about to get married. There to support Carl is his life long friend Randy Dupree (Owen Wilson). The audience is clued in right away that Carl and Dupree have been inseparable for as long as either of them can remember. It also sets up everything that is about to happen; the invasion of a third wheel in what is supposed to be a married relationship. Additionally, the audience learns that Carl is going to have some major problems with his new father-in-law (Michael Douglas).