Wedding Crashers Best Flick of Year

The story of� "Born to Run" is about as new as that saucy tale of "Video Killed the Radio Star" being the first music video to appear on MTV (they are so embarrassed twenty years later, that they apparently stopped showing videos). We know that BTR was Bruce fighting for his career, and that you can hear it on the recording. As cheesy as it sounds, I agree with it, and you probably do as well. A similar sentiment was echoed by my friend on the way out of Wedding Crashers. He said that it felt as though Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson were fighting for their careers. Again, maybe a little cheesy. But again, undeniably accurate.

The true miracle is that these two megastars are not gritty Jersey boys chopping away to save a career that no one valued (especially his record label). They are, as I mentioned, megastars, with millions of dollars and no reason to try. They don't have to wait in lines anywhere, and I'm pretty sure that any female on the planet would listen to their argument. Vinny V. just came off of a superb complementary role in Mr.& Mrs. Smith (which I think made some money), and Owen Wilson can always fall back on the fact that he can make movies like Behind Enemy Lines and I Spy if he needs to do so. Yet they really showed up.

I am not precisely a media conspiracy theorist, but I like to make up reasons that things happen in Hollywood, without any basis in fact or research of any kind. For example, I am reasonably certain that Wedding Crashers was completed a long time ago, and it got shelved to stave off negative association with a couple of other "Frat Packer" miscues. (I heard about the term "Frat Pack" from a friend, so I can't cite its origin, but I have been told it describes the new troupe of fellows making the over-the-top comedies that my demographic and I are meant to enjoy) I suspect that in the wake of Old School, anybody with a Wilson, Vaughn, Ferrel, or Stiller (by association) had $80 million to make a movie.�