So, a decade-plus later: Does it hold up? Let’s start by looking back at the fundamental grossness of Wedding Crashers’ basic premise, which went largely unquestioned at the time. So when it arrived on Netflix earlier this month, it seemed like a movie that was long overdue for revisiting. Today, Wedding Crashers’ greatest legacy is getting name-checked in the occasional article about somebody who gets arrested for spiking somebody’s drink with Visine. But despite its massive success, Wedding Crashers never got a sequel. It featured Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn at the height of their stardom, and Rachel McAdams and Bradley Cooper almost immediately before they became household names. It was the highest-grossing comedy of 2005, topping vastly more expensive box-office rivals like Batman Begins, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Mr. I saw it (and liked it!) at the time, and I certainly wasn’t alone. It’s often unfair to drag an old movie for failing to conform to modern values-but Wedding Crashers is barely a decade old, and it was huge. It arrives in the opening scene-about a minute and a half into the movie-when a cheating husband sees his estranged wife reaching for a bottle of pills and sneers, "That’s it.
For the experts on "fat cop" jokes we have to go across the pond where the association between cops and doughnuts has been running for decades.
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